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Pony Talk => Off Topic => Topic started by: dragonfly on April 05, 2017, 10:46:26 AM
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How do you get around for your day to day errands and activities?
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In my 2011 gold Chevy Cruze.
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For things like going to the bank, picking up a few things at the store, or getting food, I walk. I have a car and I drive but it's not really necessary for small errands. My husband and I are working on getting bikes soon! :)
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bus : ( my mom sold my car to my brother without asking ...
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D: That's horrible. Can't believe she did that.
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at least i get a free bus pass from my school :blush:
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Public transportation, mostly the streetcar. I also walk a lot.
I used to have a car but I sold it when I moved to a very densely populated neighborhood where parking and driving were a pain. I have been thinking about buying a car again, but only using it for weekend trips to go hiking and stuff.
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I drive myself in our small town and my fiancé drives when we go out of town to bigger towns.
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I walk, primarily. We have one vehicle and Mr. Stomper takes it to work. If I need it, it's no problem for me to drop him off. But I like walking. I will also ride my bike or take the bus. If in our van, I usually prefer Mr. Stomper to drive. But I'm willing to drive myself as well. So I get around in a handful of ways. :bike:
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We walk most of the time. Sometimes someone drives us.
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I usually take the bus, but now and then I walk.
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I live in a big city, so the bus is the easiest way to get around...and I have no car XD
I do walk whenever I can, and sometimes I use my bfs car when possible :)
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I use the bike. My city is built around bikeroads so it's usually faster taking the bike than a bus. If the weather is bad or I have a cold I take the bus.
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I walk to classes, otherwise I don't really have any way of getting around. There is a public bus system in town, but it's hard to understand how it even works. Generally, I only go to town when my parents come to town and thus can drive me there.
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In my ideal world, I would use my various Pokémon to get around. Flying, riding, it doesn't matter as long as it gets me where I need to go!
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Oh yeah.
....However, since this is not possible, my dad (or rarely mom) are happy to drive me around. I'm a little upset that I can't go anywhere on my own but I'm also much too terrified to drive, so y'know.
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Whoops! Forgot to mention that there's no buses or trains near where I live. Sigh. The woes of living in a tiny retirement community.
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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)
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I drive ~100ish miles roundtrip to work... So for errands, I have someone else drive me if possible.
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Bus and train. If I didn't live so far from everything I'd walk.
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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!
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Walk, taxi, bus or subway. In that order.
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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.
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I use public transport as I don't even own a car :P Well, traffic and parking are one of the worst things here in my country anyways. :lookround:
I agree on that upside of being lost Taffeta ^.^ My sense of direction at malls is really bad sometimes.
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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!
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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.
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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 :cry:
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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. :)
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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.
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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.
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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 :)
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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.
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I walk for all my errands. Use the T to get to my full time job, and sometimes get driven home from my part time job lol. I can't drive so mostly I walk though. Especially when with some of the bus/T routes it ends up being quicker to walk 10 miles than take a bus.
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I live in the country - on Saturday, hubs drives into town to do grocery shopping, order animal feed, maybe go to the bank. Every other Sunday I drive into town in the other direction to deliver to pet stores, do various other shopping as needed, and thrift.
Other than that, it'd better be an emergency, the closest town is a half hour away. :P You learn to make do without stuff until the weekend.
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I can't afford a car and I also really hate cars so public transport. Subway (or do you call it metro? I'm not sure) is my favourite! It smells cool, trains are cool, everything about metro is cool. I don't like terrorists blowing it up tho...
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When I lived in China, I drove an electric bike. In Tokyo, trains or subway.
Here, you need a car. The nearest city us 20 miles away and no transportation to it.
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Cars is love, cars is life. In other words, I primarily drive. I do enjoy walking though. It's good exercise and there are plenty of places to walk to around here.
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depends. I mostly walk as my town is rather small but to get into town or when commuting in a larger place, I scoot.
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I don't drive, but thankfully our bus system is pretty good. For nearby places, I walk or ride my bike, if the weather is good. I have a little vintage British folding bike that's really fun to ride, as it always catches people's eyes!
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In my ideal world, I would use my various Pokémon to get around. Flying, riding, it doesn't matter as long as it gets me where I need to go!
:lol: That would be awesome. I'd ride an Arcanine.
In real life, I have my trusty, beautiful blue Honda Civic. I live in a sprawling suburban area so a car is needed because of that and because I work in the next city over.
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I drive myself usually, but lately I have been getting rides because I have had too much anxiety to drive.
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I voted for bike, but then I saw that walking was an option too, so "walk" would be my choice. I do go to work by bike, but I pick walking over cycling if I can help it. I take the bus too, but not as much as I used to. :snail:
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If I need to go places my family will drive me. We live outside a small town, so public transit is a no-go. I can't get a license because of my vision and cerebral palsy.
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I love driving and own three vehicles so I always prefer to drive myself.
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Poor student here so I have to rely on public transport. Luckily being a student means I can travel with public transport for free during the week. :P
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Bus, or I walk.
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I don't drive, so I often get a ride.
I also walk and take public transit. I would like to get a bike. :)
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I've been biking everywhere since I moved into town. I also ride the bus if I'm too tired to bike home, and occasionally my mom drives me out to my parents' place.
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I get driven. I have CP, and my lack of reflexes makes driving unrealistic.
I'm hoping we get Uber or Lyft in this area. Currently, they are illegal in Upstate NY, because of threat they supposedly pose to the taxi industry. But legislators are currently working on changing that, which would be awesome because public transportation here is highly restrictive (very limited destinations, limited hours of operation, and no weekend availability) and taxi fare would cost me more than a day's pay.
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I needed to check several of the boxes there. I walk to everything that's walking distance (some restaurants, coffee shops, parks), drive to a few others (grocery, volunteer activities), and use uber for still others.
I don't use transit much these days, but in every other city I've lived in that's been my primary choice of transportation - the infrastructure just isn't great for it where I am now.
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To be fair, I do a mix of mostly walking/running, bus, and often Uber for shorter distances.
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If it's in the nearby little town center, I usually walk...I have a phobia of driving that I'm trying to work on and don't have a license anymore. But often my sister, who lives next door, will drive me elsewhere, and I have a social worker that works with me who gets me to my appointments.
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i drive around in my orange 2009 Honda Fit. sometimes i call it "the pumpkin." :lol:
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While I do have a license, switching epilepsy medication and going deaf(inner ear caused). Both have affected my fine motor skills. So I feel unsafe doing so. Though I live in a country that allows some drivers with epilepsy to drive. I choose not to. So it's bus/public transit. For shorter trips (couple of blocks), I walk. Uber would be an option but I have no idea how to use it. :lol:
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I have a license and can drive, but generally prefer not to. Parking can be a serious pain in the city, and if I'm going somewhere else, I'm usually with my partner (and he prefers to drive). So either he drives us around, or I catch public transit. We have been having a serious talk about getting a second car soon, though. We're really not sure what kind to go with. My last car was a Toyota Matrix S, and the nearest equivalent to that in Australia is the Toyota Corolla Ascent S. Safe, reliable, and just a little bit peppy. However, we're also looking at Mini Coopers, because the insurance on them is ridiculously cheap, and they're not something I'd mind leaving on the street outside our place at night.
Bit moot, though. For now, I stick to topping up my Opal card and riding the trains around. haha
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I can't drive because if I do the insurance will be high because I suffer with type one diabetes (had it since I was three).
My dad drives me and my mum when we have to go somewhere, other times it's our friend Ruth who takes me and my mum shopping.
I normally walk to my local library down the square, but if I'm running late then my dad drives me down there.
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I can't vote since I sometimes walk, sometimes take the train, sometimes drive...