If you saw how expensive and shitty our trains are you'd pick the accord too

I drive my car to work so I can afford a car so I can drive to work so I can afford a car

Yes but at least Trump is saving me money with the Freedom Fuel Network™

proceeds to pay >$100 to fill up the emotional support truck

/S massive giant /s since there are idiots who really think this, even after the Iran war erupted

Some of those Americans are washing their gas station sandwiches down with gas station wine too.

like an american would drive a vehicle as small as an accord

I like four-bangers, I like short shifters, I like si's, subarus, lancers, pop pop pop on the downshift, stomp click click vrooom.

Do I get stuck in traffic sometimes? Ehh, once a week maybe.

Would I give it all up for the betterment of humanity as a whole, and hang my childhood on the memory rack forever?

...yeah. The irony of that, though is that being American and living in the rural south gotta throw the glowies a bone every now and then It's barely even considerable, at all. There is no bus route. There is no train. There's no carpool, I work third with one other person who lives on the other side of the city.

So, if I have to drive, and my preferance is 32mpg little cars, and for now... I have to, and I enjoy it,...

then I'm gonna.

Having taken the bus to work for two years now, I have to say.. The complete and utter lack of responsibility has been liberating. Like, sure.. There's still some stigma there where I feel kind of poor or something standing in my uniform at the bus stop while cars whiz past me, but I only spend $70 CAD /mo on my commute, and it I want, I can travel anywhere in the city using that same pass. That's pretty reasonable.

Plus, as someone actively engaged in nature-based spirituality, it feels kind of nice knowing that I'm traveling a bit more responsibly than I would have with our vehicle.

As a german: Are those 200mph trains in a room with me?

I, European, have temporarily moved further away from work and I'm close to a train station... I'd like to take the train, but it turns a 50 minute motorbike ride to a 1h40 train+bus one. I wouldn't be driving but that's almost 2 hours more of commute per day...

some of us live 5 min from the beach

but who has real time when working 5 jobs

beach hobo looks better every year

My commute: cycle down an old railway line, occasionally going through a tree tunnel.

Not sure how a car loan would give me any freedom I don't already have.

I live in Germany currently and am from the US.

I love train travel. Even the delays people always rag on DB is really not that bad. It could be better yes, but not having to drive everywhere is so nice.

However I do often miss the small conviences of a car. Going to the store and traveling in bad weather were much easier, and yes I'm aware you can have a car here too I just won't be getting one.

Although I must admit I do miss a good road trip too. Where the journey is part of the trip. It's much easier to find something spontaneously while driving and stop to enjoy it.

Overall though not having to drive and being able to relax makes train travel the best

Mine is only 15-20 minutes. But recently leadership gave an employee at a different office an award for something else. The guy had to give an impromptu speech about it. He mentioned the usual stuff but then commented on how his commute was an extra hour compared to his previous job, but “so worth it”. I wanted to reach through the screen.

If the Honda accord is good enough for Jesus it’s good enough for me

Drive a tank and simply drive over the Honda Accord blocking you 🤷‍♂️

Me, as a European having to drive 55 minutes to work, with our fuel prices: 😭

Luckily my work isn't so far away now, it's only 10 minute drive. Could use public transit but it's not a very feasible option for me

Man, I tried to do public transport to work. I was in the best situation. I lived walking distance to the light rail, my office was on the other side of town, within walking disance to the light rail.

leave at 7:30, walk to the rail by 7:50, not bad buy a ticket on the automated machine and wait, assuming 1 of the 3 machines was working. 50:50 honestly. trains come every 15, except they don't.
On a good day, the train would be there by 8, on a bad day, maybe 8:30 Ride it for 20 minutes, 4 stops, until I need to switch trains. Get off train 1, buy a ticket if the machines there work, god forbid there's no ticket on the first run and a train already there, i'll be waiting for another train. train 2 shows, on a good day, 30 more minutes to my work stop, on a bad day, 45. i hop off at my stop, walk 15m to the office. I'm at the office between 9:30 and 9:45. If it's hot i'm covered in sweat. If it's cold i'm freezing. Luckily my job DGAF what time we show up.

2h there, 2h back.

except after 7:30pm, trains go to every 30 minutes, which means maybe every 45.

If there's an accident, a bus bridge will easily make that one way trip 4 hours.

If I drive, I'm there in 27 minutes.

3.5 hours a day to take public transport here for a 30m drive.

We're not clusters of towns with jobs where everything is near transport and even when things are close our trains are slow an full of homeless trying to stay warm in the winter. I would have loved to hell to get rid of one of the cars. but giving up 1/4 of my family time on a job that already wants 10 hours a day wasn't negotiable.

Except at least a third of us are sick of that hell, but we still have to endure the same "find out" phase of the fafo cycle.

Also, why do lol use X and act like there not feeding the troll king

Yeah cause everywhere they go is in the Swiss Alps with wine. Not a single European has a shitty commute. This is grass is greener at its finest.

And those of us in Japan

/ Though the winds are so high that our line partially will shut down a few times a year. It was elevated after the tsunami which led to a new issue.

Yeah but can they do it while knowing that one tenth of a percent of their population has increased their wealth at a rate ten times more than the top 90% of earners in their society? Didn't think so. Take that, losers!