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by ghaff 3506 days ago
Wait. Based on my reading here I thought it was only in the US that public transportation wasn't ubiquitous and people drove everywhere :-) And that in other countries you didn't even need to own a car.
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It's not wrong. You don't need a car in Germany to move between most cities. But you do need a car to get around in rural Germany, especially between small towns.

This was a bit of a culture clash for me when moving from a city of one million to a much smaller city of fifteen thousand. I was used to being able to take public transport to get everywhere and I can actually take the train to move between the two cities, but in the smaller city everybody has or shares a car.