How do you get around town?

[SaraMari]

I work from home so luckily I don't have to go out much haha, I drive myself to the thrift stores during the week. On the weekends usually I go food shopping with my mom who does the driving. Sometimes I go to Target and my fiance drives then (drives my car actually haha)

[banditpony]

I drive ~100ish miles roundtrip to work... So for errands, I have someone else drive me if possible.

[Sandi]

Bus and train. If I didn't live so far from everything I'd walk.

[Annie]

With my old trustworth car!
Tomorrow I'm gonna set a record and drive 428 miles! Loading up with snacks and music for the road!

[Honeycomb]

Walk, taxi, bus or subway. In that order.

[Taffeta]

I am navigationally challenged so I don't drive.

I do not mean I get lost a bit. People often say "I'm like that, too," but it turns out they're really not My navigation is something of a running joke with my family (when I went to secondary school for the first time, my Dad joked about me getting a taxi back from Scotland) but in reality it's serious enough for the government to recognise it as probably the most severe element of my autism. In short, it's bad enough that it could seriously put me at risk because I can get lost literally anywhere.

I have no directional sense. I can't tell left from right, I can't tell which way to go or even sometimes follow arrows if the arrow direction is at all ambiguous. My navigation is so bad I got lost inside my university campus trying to find the front entrance as a second year, and even though my family have lived in the same place for about thirty years, I still cannot walk into the local town because I cannot remember the route.

But I am a person who loves seeing new places, visiting new things and going to foreign countries.

So I rely on buses and trains. Planning trips means staying somewhere that is near enough to a transport hub or facility for me to have a safe base point (here in Kyoto I am near 2 stations and six bus stops.) For some reason these I don't have any problem navigating. I live partly in London, where I know a scary amount of bus routes because they are my link to independent movement and having a car in central London is really stupid anyway.

And in Kyoto...well, Kyoto is a square city with quite a logical layout. But unless I can see signs to tell me where I am and where I'm going, I get lost. Even if I think I know the area. What annoys me is that if I spend a long time looking at a sign, people think I don't understand the language and start trying to speak to me in English. The reality is I can read the sign just fine, but I cannot get my bearings as to where I need to go. It made me super-happy when I went to Giouji, in Sagano, that it was obsessively signposted in Japanese and so I could find it.

So often here I use buses too.

You might think this means I don't do a lot of walking, and thus don't get much exercise, but the opposite is true. When you get lost regularly, you get used to walking three times the distance of everyone else to get to your destination. This means I get plenty of exercise, which is the one upside of getting lost.

[beajjai033]

I use public transport as I don't even own a car Well, traffic and parking are one of the worst things here in my country anyways.

I agree on that upside of being lost Taffeta My sense of direction at malls is really bad sometimes.

[Stormness_1]

I usually use public transport to get everywhere - I'm a crazy aggressive driver, it's safer for me not to drive, so I only maintain a learner's license for ID purposes. I'm currently being chauffeured everywhere though, because I'm pregnant and everyone is paranoid about me walking any great distance, or being alone away from home, which I find hilarious, but convenient. I still sneak out to places now and then when hubby is at work, I need the exercise, even if it is to buy something bad for me to eat which probably cancels it out anyway!

[SnorkMaiden]

I use public transport to get to work and for everything that's too far to walk. That said, I enjoy walking very much, and I'm fortunate to have a lot of stores, supermarkets etc in walking distance.

[dragonlady]

I chose drive myself but I really don't go anywhere except to the post office, the grocery store, gas station or the dump (and usually only once a week) and all of those are on the opposite end of the island from where I live. Work is is closer but is still too far to walk and since I have to be there by 6am, dark

[sweetie_pie_48427]

I live out in the countryside, so I have to drive everywhere, but I hate driving, so if my hubby is home, I make him do it. 

[Poster]

I walk, for the most part. I get pretty stir-crazy if I can't get out on my feet often enough.

When I'm out with family, usually one of them'll drive, but occasionally I will.

[dashesndots]

I can drive if I need to, but my husband and I only have one car (and work at the same company)so he does most of the driving.  In fact I just drove our new-ish car (bought last October) for the first time only a few weeks ago, LOL. 

[SundanceSadie]

Basically, I drive to/for everything. We live in such a rural area that driving is my only option for getting to town.
It's always so much fun for me though when we vacation in a place where we can walk to everything 

[Griffin]

I couldn't decide which option to pick so I selected 'something else'. I walk, cycle, take the bus, or have hubby drive me, depending on where I'm going and if it's both of us going there or just me. In the summertime it's mostly the bike that takes me everywhere I need to go, in winter I use the bus a lot.