How many here don't drive?

[Archae]

I haven't had a driver's license for 20 years now.

(Just a WI picture ID.)

[madinmaryland]

1. Do you mind if I ask why?

[Common Sense Party]

2. By choice or out of necessity? n/t

[Archae]

4. Both.

I don't like to drive, and I can't afford a car.

[Common Sense Party]

6. Understood. How do you usually get around to where you need to go?

Walk, bike, public transportation, rides from friends? Other?

Is it a pain at times, or do you not mind?

[Archae]

14. All of the above.

I especially enjoy riding my bicycle.

[Common Sense Party]

3. Oh, and to answer the OP ?, I drive (a lot) but my sister in Boston

never learned--at least, not well enough to get a license.

[grasswire]

5. gave up my car about eight years ago

It gave up the ghost finally (don't see too many old Volvos on the road anymore) and I didn't really need one in the city. Then I let my DL lapse. Am kind of sorry I let it lapse, as I now have a bad knee that makes walking more difficult. But I don't miss owning a car.

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. Up to about 2-3 years ago, I had a car, a motorcycle, and an RV (my home).

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For financial and health reasons (so interconnected), I had to give them
all up and now take the bus.
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$35 for a monthly pass.
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[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

8. I don't drive

I did when I lived in the US, had a convertible JEEP that I loved to zip around in, but not anymore. I have a monthly ticket for all public transportation within certain zones. I usually walk to the store, it's not that far (about a half hour round trip)but it does suck when the weather is bad.

[MiddleFingerMom]

9. I lived in Nurnberg for almost 4 years...

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...and with Germany's EXCELLENT public transportation systems -- a car simply wasn't necessary.
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[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

10. It is an EXCELLENT system

I live about a 7 minute walk from the bahnhof in one direction with both U bahn and S bahn as well as bus terminal, and about an 8 minute walk to a U bahn station in the opposite direction. I can jump on the subway and be in the center of Munich in 12 minutes. The ONLY complaint I have is that I invariably come down the escalator and see the back of my train as it speeds away! Doh. Then I have to wait 5 to 10 minutes for the next one.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Wah-wah-wah...

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Here in Tucson, although it does the job, I've had to kinda tailor my life around their
inadequate bus system. I moved to within a 5 minute walk of the bus line (one of the
major North-South ones). I found it ironic when I moved here that Greyhound Bus
Lines was hiring (and their new hires had to work 3rd shift -- which I LOVE), but
the city buses didn't run late enough for a worker to get home.
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And if I see the back of a bus (which I do way too often), most of the time it's 30
minutes (weekdays) to an hour (weekends) for the next one.
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It IS one of the cheapest in the country -- $3 for an all-day pass and $35 for a
monthly pass.
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[jobycom]

11. How would I know?

:shrug:

[Chan790]

12. I don't drive.

I have never wanted my license. I've been goaded into taking driver's ed and driving test repeatedly, but don't care enough to not fail it.

I only live in major cities and have no need of it.

[rurallib]

13. My wife doesn't - can't really - due to a medical condition

she had a brain hemorrhage when our second child was born. The part where the bleed occurred controls eye movement, so her eyes bounce all the time.

[Iggo]

15. Right here.

Socal, L.A. area.

Haven't had a CDL since 1984.

I've managed okay.

[Silver Swan]

16. My last driver's license expired in 1971.

When I moved to Chicago from Michigan, I didn't have a car, and I didn't really need one, so I never got an Illinois license.

Automobile travel is so scary to me I don't even like to ride in a car as a passenger. I always say that the only way I could ever drive is if there were no other vehicles on the road.

[bikebloke]

17. By choice.

I haven't driven since '92, and that was a friend's car (haven't owned a car since the early 80's). My bicycle became my steed. I did keep a valid drivers license until I was living in another state. When my Virginia license expired, I didn't have access to a car. So I went for state ID. Haven't looked back.

[stuntcat]

19. I haven't driven since 1999

terrible wreck, crap crap phooie, now I'm not 'well' enough to be trusted with control of a vehicle :* although I don't feel that safe about the psychos who are allowed to drive the 2-ton boxes of steel.. hurtling down the highways. I'm always scared in traffic.
Where I live I can walk to everything I need.