When Ellen first moved from New York to Los Angeles, she decided not to own a car as a “test”, she says. “I grew up without car culture in Vancouver, and I wanted to try it out for a year.”
Five years on, she still has no plans to buy one. “It’s certainly a stereotype that you can’t not drive [in LA], but a lot of people do get around without them. I sometimes dream of getting one for road trips, but I think I’ll just rent for now.”
No car in NYC, no problem. No car in LA is bold.
Renting cars for road trips is definitely the way to go though. Put that wear and tear on somebody else’s car, and dont waste the money on a car sized for road tripping that you utilize 1% of the time
yeah im in chicago and this is not uncommon. still to many cars but if you live within a mile of an el station you can easily get by without a car. If your good with biking there is almost no were within the metro line limits that it would not work.