1 yr. ago • 100%

Is it okay to own a car in a rural area?

I'm a person living in a rural area and have to either go by train, the nearest station being 15 mins away by car and the trains having a schedule that keeps fluctuating.

Or have to go by car where it takes 60 mins to get where I need to go. I wouldn't want to get a late pickup or anything outrageous just something to get me places.

I'm not a car enthusiast or anything like that.

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Owning a car if you need one is not in itself a problem. "fuckcars" isn't about blindly hating cars, it's about being aware that cars are inefficient, dangerous, and bad for people's health. It's about raising awareness about how car-centric and car-dependent society has become, despite there being better ways to structure transportation.

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- Thank you for the clarification, so what I'm hearing is that owning a car is fine if it's not something outrageously large or inefficient and I don't have good public transit connections?
  
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  We're not some kind of cult setting rules for how people should live. If you need a car, buy a car, if you want to own some kind of ridiculous lifted truck, you can do that, but I'll reserve the right to make fun of you and think you're an asshole.
  
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FuckCars is not about BEING carfree, it's about realizing that you're FORCED to have a car, to pay $10,000 per year to own that car, to breathe in the pollution from the roads, to risk your life on the road, and how bad that sucks.

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I think everyone here understands that most people don't live in northern Europe with great cycling and train infrastructure. So you do what you got to do to live a happy life in car infested capitalist society, nothing wrong with that. If that means you need a car, get a car. Preferably it'd be used and with a low ride height / bumper height. So it's at least a bit safer for cyclist and pedestrians.

I think all we ask is that when there is an opportunity to advocate for more pedestrian or cycling infrastructure that you do so

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the "fuck cars" mindset is typically that we're against car-dependency, not against people who are victims of car-dependent societies. Naturally people in suburbs and more rural areas, especially here in america, will need a car. It's not ideal and it's something that should be fixed but it happens.

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- It's important to note that there are some countries where even the rural communities have enough transit options that cars aren't necessary. It's less common, but it does exist.
  
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- Exactly. Blaming individuals for systemic problems never gets you anywhere. If you can reduce your car dependency, sure, do that, but don't beat yourself up if you can't.
  
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- Yeah, I think this is kind of a problem with fuck cars communication. It really needs to be clear that it's against car dependency.
  
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  I mean I'm a "fuck cars purist" I'm not a fan of cars at all. But yes, the movement is very much about car-dependency, not cars.
  
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Or course it is. Also, it’s ok to not literally fuck cars. It’s just a sentiment that we wish cars didn’t have to dominate so much due to poor civic planning.

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