I haven't owned a car since 2018, am I voting illegally?

[Scooter]

[Joe Guy]

they asked me for my license plate....

Maybe they thought he was a truck.

[Burning Petard]

Way back in his first term he was doing this kind of stuff If you had been paying attention then, you knew when he began by saying "many people have told me. . . " that whatever followed would be pure fiction. At least Biden's little fake stories were usually about something that was supposed to have happened decades ago. Today I learned that Trump was trying to ban mail in ballots and voting machines, because Putin does not like them. Friday was a wonderful day for observing the great deal maker. Trump announced that he was giving Putin a choice: cease fire in Ukraine or suffer big tariffs and other economic sanctions, Putin said 'I'll take the TACO" Trump came away with a wonderful deal. Gonna be another meeting with photo ops. Putin did give something--a nice Ural motorcycle to a local citizen there in Alaska. The Ural machine looked almost as nice as the new Royal Enfield motorcycles made in India.

I wonder if Putin objects to our voting machines and voting by mail because his fake social media accounts have not been able to make an impact on those votes. Trump gave no plans for how the military and diplomatic people abroad were supposed to vote in his new reformed democracy.

snailgate

[Sue U]

Maybe they thought he was a truck.

Rhymes with, at least.

[BoSoxGal]

I would really like to hear more about your life without an automobile! I dream of such an existence but don't see how I could make it work. Do you live in a vibrant city neighborhood with everything you need within walking distance? Occasional Uber/Lyft/cab?

[Big RR]

I have a number of friends who live in New York City who don't own cars, and have worked with NewYorkers who never had a drivers license. I am sure other cities are similar. In NYC, many people find cars unnecessary.

[BoSoxGal]

When I lived in DC for law school, my car sat parked in front of my row house for weeks at a time. I took it over to Alexandria every other week for a big grocery shop at one of the large and cheaper grocery stores in the burbs, and used it occasionally for visits to state parks in the area and to visit the National Arboretum, and of course to get home to Maine for visits and to NY to visit my siblings and cousin up there. I could have rented a car for those occasional things and lived without one, but I knew I'd be returning to Maine summers and after my JD and Maine is a very difficult place to live without a car. Where I live now is a very difficult place to live without a car as well, unless you don't need to go anyplace other than where the bus goes which is very limited. America is mostly not public transport and/or walking friendly.

[Scooter]

I live right in central Toronto, 2 minutes walk to the subway, plus a bus that runs down the street and streetcar lines on several cross streets if I need them to get somewhere. Three discount supermarkets within 5 minutes walk, including one on the ground floor of my building. If I need anything special, there are three more supermarkets with wider selection within 15 minutes walk. Pharmacy next door, plus two more up the street. Medical building across from the subway where I can get lab tests, x-ray and ultrasound when needed. My doctor's office is a 15 minute walk. Three shopping malls (primarily underground) along Yonge St which is 1 km away. Theatre district easily accessible by subway. Bus runs down to St. Lawrence Market when I can get any variety of meats and other farm products.

The main reason I miss my car in the city is for any sort of home repair/renovation/redecorating project. Home improvement stores are not really transit accessible, although I have on occasion carried home an area rug or a couple of 2X8s on the streetcar/subway, incurring the expected dirty looks. But my Nissan Sentra would not have been helpful for some of that either.

When I had the car it would usually sit in the garage unless I needed it to go out of town (because the abysmal parking situation in the city usually negates any convenience of driving). I hung onto it (24 years!) right up until it needed a repair whose cost I could no longer justify.

[Sue U]

My plan is to move back into Philly and go car free within the next two years. My feelings about driving run from indifference to active dislike, and I'd rather walk or take mass transit wherever I need to go. I used to say about living in NYC that you could find anything within a five-block radius of your place and if you couldn't you probably didn't need it anyway.

I had to be in court in Queens twice in the last month and it was a breeze to take Amtrak to Penn Station, catch the subway right there out to Queens and walk two blocks to the courthouse. Total travel time 120 miles door to door was just over 2.5 hours, most of which I could spend working or relaxing as I pleased. (I could have cut 10 or 15 minutes off my travel time taking the Acela, but I went cheap to save the client some travel expenses.)