[thefourthchime]

I think it depends on where you live. If you live in New York, LA, Chicago, Seattle a lot of the big cities have such horrible traffic I can see the want to get rid of your car.

If you live in a place like Austin Texas and work from home, like I do. Having a car is a delight. I can go in any direction and bring my stuff I can get stuff from the store and bring it home. I've lived without a car in New York City, there's a lot of downsides to that. You don't have the freedom to just go to IKEA and get a something.

[seanmcdirmid]

I had to rent a car when I went to IKEA in Switzerland. It wasn't that bad, and seemed like a pretty standard thing to do.

The US doesn't really have urban area car rentals, you'd have to get to the airport first.

[thefourthchime]

That's entirely false. Where I live in North Austin there are two places to rent cars within 2 miles of me. The same is true all over the USA.