Fred ,'Smile Time'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Before I lived in Europe, my experience with public transportation was so limited that I was suspicious and a little afraid of it. Returning to a car culture sucked!
And now that I actually live somewhere again that has public transportation, I use it every single day and I'm very happy that I don't need to own a car.
yeah, it is gonna suck when I move back to Texas. Not owning a car will not be an option. In fact, going even a day without using the car will probably be near impossible. And I haven't owned a car for 10 years now.
National Geographic reader Quinton Robinson took this amazing photo of a Madagascar giant leaf tailed gecko that looked at the world with trippy colored eyes!
Those eyes look like Sauron eyes!
You won't find anyone who owns a home for $200,000 and up who needs to ride a bus or train into work.
Speaking as someone who lives in Manhattan and takes public transportation exclusively let me say that I don't think I KNOW anyone who's home costs a paltry $200,000.
Not only that, just this morning I saw black people on the train. And no one died.
Anti-urbanism, bah
Hi, have you met Texas? Only poor people and us dirty hippies like the city (unless you Disney-fy it and charge an arm and a leg for rent, but even then it's kinda hipster or yuppieish and they're not to be trusted either).
msbelle, you'll likely need a car, though depending on where you are maybe not all the time. I haven't seen the inside of my car since last Tuesday. Friday I found out it was dead, so I just kept walking up to the bus stop at the corner.
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
Then: The Wealth of Nations
Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
Then: Walden
Now: Camping with Myself: Two Years in American Tuscany
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Then: The Prince
Now: The Prince (Foreword by Oprah Winfrey)
Hee!
I just saw a job opening that sounds fantastic, but also like it would require a car. Not to get to the office, but to do the job. Hmmmm. I mean, of course I'll still apply, but hmmmm.