A car is often essential in the US but while owning a vehicle is better than not for life satisfaction, a study has found, having to drive too much sends happiness plummeting
Yeah 87% seems like a lowball. Where I live right now, you can't go anywhere without a car and there's no metro/passenger trains/rail line/whatever. Busses are unreliable and wait times vary between 15 minutes to an hour, so you show up an hour before you plan to leave, which just eats your time.
You can't even get around my residential neighborhood without a car because there's no bike lanes and sidewalks are missing from large sections.
Yeah 87% seems like a lowball. Where I live right now, you can't go anywhere without a car and there's no metro/passenger trains/rail line/whatever. Busses are unreliable and wait times vary between 15 minutes to an hour, so you show up an hour before you plan to leave, which just eats your time.
You can't even get around my residential neighborhood without a car because there's no bike lanes and sidewalks are missing from large sections.