this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2025
39 points (91.5% liked)

AskUSA

906 readers
35 users here now

About

Community for asking and answering any question related to the life, the people or anything related to the USA. Non-US people are welcome to provide their perspective! Please keep in mind:

  1. !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world - politics in our daily lives is inescapable, but please post overtly political things there rather than here
  2. !flippanarchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com - similarly things with the goal of overt agitation have their place, which is there rather than here

Rules

  1. Be nice or gtfo
  2. Discussions of overt political or agitation nature belong elsewhere
  3. Follow the rules of discuss.online

Sister communities

  1. !askuk@feddit.uk
  2. !casualuk@feddit.uk
  3. !casualconversation@lemm.ee
  4. !yurop@lemm.ee
  5. !esp@lemm.ee

Related communities

  1. !asklemmy@lemmy.world
  2. !asklemmy@sh.itjust.works
  3. !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
  4. !showerthoughts@lemmy.world
  5. !usa@ponder.cat

founded 9 months ago
MODERATORS
OpenStars@discuss.online
m_f@midwest.social
m_f@discuss.online
Anticorp@lemmy.world
39
How walkable is your neighborhood? (infosec.pub)
submitted 4 days ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

The US has a lot of places that are car-dependent. You can live in walkable areas, but those can also have much higher cost of living. Where did you end up on that spectrum for where you live right now?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Northeast metro area (NYC/NJ), haven't owned a car in about 25 years. Mainly walk to places but I also take the train/bus as needed.

When I go out to the suburbs via train I do usually end up driving around with family. (their car)

Metro area is HCOL but not having a car has saved me a huge amount of money, people tend to act like the car is a separate expense not related to the rest of your bills like rent/property taxes, utilities, all that.