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by arp242 357 days ago
It's needed a lot less than people think unless you live out in the countryside. While it can be a bit inconvenient at times, in general it's perfectly feasible to not have a car in car-dependent Ireland.

In the US on the other hand, it's needed a lot more.
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ethbr1 357 days ago
> In the US on the other hand, it's needed a lot more.

A central problem in the US is transit between cities/states.

Since Europe was urbanized at scale long before the US, passenger rail networks were built out.

Most of the US grew with cars, and so that was just never developed.

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disgruntledphd2 354 days ago
> It's needed a lot less than people think unless you live out in the countryside

Yeah, that's basically what I meant about non-urban core. Like, towns around Dublin are sortof OK, but public transport in the rest of Ireland makes it very inconvenient to have no car (and I've done this and it sucked).

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