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>public transit
Glad I'm not poor

>>9649773
Straight up, imagine not having your own transportation. Even worse, imagine being so developmentally retarded where-as you never even learned how to drive a motor vehicle.

>His cuntry has shit public transport infrastructure
>Implying I can't just hop onto a tram, train or bus with a swipe of my OV chipcard and go anywhere I like in the cuntry
>Implying I want to pay thousands a year in road tax, petrol, car servicing when literally crossing the cuntry costs less than 30 euros
>Implying we dutch aren't better than you

>>9649773
>>9649789
imagine not living in flyoverland, in a real city that doesn't have infinite amounts of empty space for you to park in, where the subway will get you to work faster than driving

>>9649749
I mean just needing to use public transportation is enough to earn that question

>>9649829
In the vast majority of America cities, regardless of region, public transportation is primarily used by poor people

>Sitting like that on a train
>Eating on public transit
>Baby stroller blocking the entire fucking aisle
That person is just a piece of shit in general.

>>9649829
>flyoverland
>as if I want retards crowding my wealthy white town
The one and only drawback was the lack of certain retail stores and food variety, but that has literally been resolved in the last 3 months.

>>9649749
do plains and long haul trains count? or does your autism only extend to the public transit in the shit hole of a city you live in?
Get a fucking car you bus riding faggot

>>9649829
>this triggers the coastie
Enjoy using Jamal's shitstained seat.

>>9649749
They were born white.

>>9649789
I dated this girl for a couple of months, she was 23-25 can't remember, and she never got her drivers license.
She had a 26 yr old brother who didn't have his, and they had a 29 yr old brother, the only one with a license, who would drive them everywhere (they lived at home and the dad would drive them too).
She said it was too expensive to go to drivers ed and get it done, which is only like $120.
I made her feel bad about being lazy and she finally got it. But then her 29 yr old brother got picked up on some pedo charges and now she's the one driving her other brother around, who still doesn't have his license.
>She lived in north Houston, and there is no public transit or taxis, you need a car here.

>>9649846
imagine not living in a shitty part of a shitty country, where even other Ameritards don't ever visit where you live, preferring to fly right over it

>>9649867
It really triggers me that some people make the excuse of drivers ed being too expensive or simply not having the time to do it. Some courses are literally just 1 or 2 months of weekly classes that go for about an hour. That's how I did it. Cost about $200.

Meanwhile, they can afford a new phone and phone case every release.

Candy you have to eat alone thread.

>>9649867
>getting anywhere close to a >20 yo without a drivers license
jesus anon why

>>9649889
i thought the was no driving test in yank land, if you can reach they pedals and spell your own name they throw a licence at you.

ITT people cucked out of decent, clean infrastructure and happy about it.

If your government won't protect you from contracting 16 different STDs using its own services, it doesn't care about you.

>>9649829
uh that sounds shitty stop trying to act like no open space is a good thing coastie fuck

>>9649829
>Subway
When was the last time you saw anybody with any amount of money on the fucking subway?

>>9649900
Not really, no. You either take classes in high school for free (I think) that run two semesters, or you take a private course for a couple hundred and get the same done in the course of a few months with longer class times and more intensive shit.

You need certification from a class to be able to get your license. Otherwise the DMV will kick your ass out the door.

>>9649883
Yeah, I would rather not live in a tourist trap like NY

>>9649908
lack of open space is not in and of itself a good thing.

It's just the natural consequence of actually living in a desirable place. Other people also want to live there, and therefore there's competition for space.

>>9649920
Oh, and that isn't counting the DMV test. If you have your permit, you don't need to take that test. But you do have to take the DMV driving test itself and not score too many demerits.

>>9649920
>Two semesters
What
>Private course for a couple hundred
What
>You need certification from a class to be able to get your license
Where the fuck do you live exactly?
I took drivers ed in two weeks when I was 17, paid an instructor $50 to pass me on the driving portion of the test, then went to the DMV and took a 30 question multiple choice test about basic laws and reading signs.

Foreign exchange students from my university just show up at the DMV and pass the written test, you don't need to pass the driving portion if you're over 18.
Where the fuck are you getting all this crazy nonsense about a year-long drivers ed course and $200 private classes?

>>9649749
>not having a car
>not getting fast food on the way to work
>not scarfing your greasy sausage biscuit and hashbrowns in the parking lot outside work
>not walking in with your shitty coffee in hand
>not clocking in while chugging said coffee
>look at phone, time is 6:55 AM
You are no true wagecuck until you know this feel.

>>9649942
>He's not salaried
>He doesn't set his own hours
>He has to show up for early morning shifts
I literally cook breakfast in my office's kitchen because I don't work at a shithole

>>9649933
I live in a civilized place where idiots don't get to drive. It's a region called New England.

>>9649950
>New England
>Drivers that aren't idiots
u 'avin a laff m8?

>>9649883
I live in a very large city with an international airport, and everyone here drives. We don't even have a subway system to speak of. Many major US cities have plenty of space to expand outwards, and typically it's only in the most commercial areas at the very center of the city where driving is actually time-prohibitive compared to the relative comfort and flexibility of being able to leave and arrive whenever and exactly where you need to be. For example, driving from the front door of your 3-bed room house with a yard means you walk 15 feet to get to your transportation. In other scenarios, you're forced to use a cab (expensive), or public transit which is not necessarily on your city block. Then you have to manage timing of trains or buses, and also deal with the walk time and distance from your actual destination compared to the public transit stop.

>>9649933
the standard of driving in yank land must be terrible.

>>9649953
I am indeed. I don't really count transplants from other states who move there or visit, but the bulk of those are in MA and NH.

>>9649955
oh wow big man with your fancy international airport. How dare I call you a "flyover" when some people do stop in your city, get off their plane, and then immediately get onto another plane.

>>9649962
Literally only in cities where people don't learn to drive until they're 26 and then they never actually *learn* to drive because they're in constant bumper-to-bumper traffic.
Flyovers are easily the best drivers because they have to drive themselves everywhere all the time, so they're ridiculously experienced.

>>9649924
>It's just the natural consequence of actually living in a desirable place. Other people also want to live there, and therefore there's competition for space.
Unfortunately, this continues to make that space less and less desirable.

>>9649966
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say here. Do you have a list of cities that you consider "non-flyover"? What common criteria do they meet that satisfies your definition? Why do you think I particularly care about the "fly over" part of this discussion, rather than the quality of life wrought by having personal transportation? Based on this post, I'm not sure I'm going to get a reasonable response from you at all, but I'm willing to continue this if you can converse with some semblance of coherency.

>>9649977
if its undesirable why do they have no problem charging huge amounts of rent for small apartments?

tfw too poor to own a car

oh well maybe next decade

>>9649989
Because idiots are willing to pay that. Those same idiots exist everywhere.

>>9649993
Then why does no apartment manager in flyoverland charge $3000 for a studio apartment?

>>9649989
Sorry, I should have worded this better. It's still "desirable" by a certain subset of people (I hesitate to call them "idiots", but this wouldn'tbe far from my opinion) who are willing to pay 50%+ of their monthly income on rent; however, these cities are becoming less and less desirable for those who would like to do more than only work to pay rent for the rest of their life without ever building wealth or equity in assets.

>>9649997
Because there are no greedy Jews here?

>>9649989
Because there are a ton of absolute retards willing to pay for that to live in their overly-romanticized cities.
Retards who really have no reason to be in said city, because there is absolutely no valuable work they can do there.

>>9649997
They're starting to because everybody who lives in containment centers is realizing its fucking impossible to live there, and they start flooding out to the flyover regions they constantly mock because it's so cheap.
Except then they vote for everything to be like the shitholes they just left, and rent skyrockets because they gentrify the fuck out of the place.

>>9649997
Are you going to make a distinction between places that are "flyoverland" and places that don't charge $3,000 for a studio? Because there are major cities that are not nearly as expensive as somewhere like SF and NYC.

>>9650008
>They're starting to because everybody who lives in containment centers is realizing its fucking impossible to live there, and they start flooding out to the flyover regions they constantly mock because it's so cheap.
>Except then they vote for everything to be like the shitholes they just left, and rent skyrockets because they gentrify the fuck out of the place.

Austin is a great example of this.

>>9650008
show me one studio apartment outside of a big city that rents for $3000 or even remotely close to that.

>>9649890

>>9649807
Your country can fit in my state 17 times.

>>9649829
Lol the LA and NYC cucks always bring it back to that "flyover" shit. You guys are so hard up on how great you are and here you are openly admitting you don't even have the ability to use your own car. You literally have to ride the bus or the subway, sitting on a chair some homeless person pissed on twenty minutes ago. Enjoy your city life, faggot.

>>9650019
>If it's not a literal price match then it's not happening!
3 years ago I could rent a 1050sq ft, 2br apartment with in-unit laundry and a huge kitchen for about $650/mo
Now I'm living in a 300sq ft studio for $800/mo
Give in another 3 years and my shitty flyover town will be renting out 500sq ft 1br units for $2500. Hell, the places downtown they just built are already going for $1600/mo for a 600sq.

>>9650019
>the more expensive the rent the better
Why pay 3000 a month for a studio when I can have a two floor six bedroom house with a sizeable basement for cheaper?

Are urbanites really this retarded?

>>9649946
This, except I do get in early because I prefer to be at the office alone in the wee hours of the morning. I rarely eat breakfast, but I often drive back home for two hours and actually cook lunch and enjoy the early afternoon before heading back to the office for a few more hours, leaving no later than 3PM.

>>9649900
I'm actually astounded at how wrong you are. Are you retarded or just so gullible that someone lied to you and you believed it?

>>9649890
dip'n'stik

>>9650040
If you don't live in some backwards ass east coast state it's VERY easy to get a license in the states compared to most european countries, so a lot of people have this weird conception that you can just start driving with no knowledge.

>>9650031
oh wow you told me about a bunch of things that aren't what I asked for and speculated that maybe some day it would be what I asked for. thanks

>>9650035
I didn't say it was better, I said "more desirable." And my evidence for that is the fact that many people desire it. Pretty straighforward

>>9650027
Gehahaha look at this pussy flyover having a meltdown.

>>9650064
Many idiots, yeah. The same people who would drop 500k on a car just for bragging rights.

>>9650049
>You didn't show me an apartment for $3000! That means it's not happening and you're a liar!
Is this good enough for you faggot? I live in fucking idaho and this is becoming the norm.
Fucking *idaho*. I could rent a place in Seattle for less than this.

>>9650070
they why do city people have higher iqs?

>>9650087
Citation needed.

>>9650081
>the most expensive one you could find was half the price I asked about

>>9650087
>smartest people start off rural
>all the jobs are in the city so they move there
>everyone moves back after they retire
Must be a great place if it is literally forced upon them.

>>9650092
>It's not an exact price match that means nobody wants to live there!

>>9650102
Not all the jobs are in the city. Just the good ones. The high-paying, competitive, desirable ones.

>>9649946
You know, I could have a job like that, but I really lack the motivation at the moment. I graduated from college a few months ago and I feel kind of, weirdly uninterested in becoming a professional. Hardly a summer passed between my highschool graduation and my first semester of college, so maybe now is the time for me to take a few gap years like most people do before college? My current job in retail is kind of stressful sometimes, but nowhere near as much as school was. I make enough to live comfortably and finance my hobbies, so why not just fuck around for a while?

>>9650111
>not exactly
>half

>>9650114
Get a decent hourly job related to your profession at least, working retail is a death sentence. Employers will wonder why you chose to stick in it for so long after graduating and assume that people wouldnt hire you for some reason.

>>9650119
>$1600 for 600sq ft in a city of 500,000
Do you understand scaling, fucktard?

>>9650113

Exactly. There's a higher concentration of high-paying desirable jobs in cities so it draws people in from the countryside. Generally speaking more intelligent people get the better jobs.

>>9650139
I understand that I asked you to show me one apartment outside a big city that is charging anywhere near $3000 a month for a studio.

Then you showed me a 600 sq foot apartment (in the biggest city in Idaho, not a small town in Idaho) that charges $1600.

So no, you did not show me what I asked you to show me, because it does not exist because NOBODY WILL PAY $3000 TO LIVE IN IDAHO YOU STUPID FUCKING FLYOVER

>>9650172
>this triggers the cityfag

>>9650172
> NOBODY WILL PAY $3000 TO LIVE IN IDAHO
They will for a house. And they will for an apartment in about 2 years at the current rate of the market change.
Do you understand real estate markets? Like, at all?
The same bullshit happened in colorado, rental rates more than doubled over the course of a few years because califucks kept flocking there for DUDE WEED LMAO

>>9650182
So now your point is that a studio apartment in Manhattan costs the same as an entire house in Idaho?

>>9650199
I think you're just angry you have to live in a box instead of a house.

>>9650113

I grew up in a beautiful rural english country village. Graduated uni and moved to a big city for work and I fucking hated it.
These city fags are deluded.
Its noisy, smelly, dirty and crowed to fuck.The only slightly convenient thing was being close to shops, but as a straight white male caricature I go """""shopping""""" 3 or 4 times a year so I don't give a fuck about any of that shit.
I sold my 2 bed match box sized apartment, and moved to a nice village where I bought a 3 bed house with driveway, garage, garden and no foreigners as neighbors with cash to spare.
I have no idea why anyone would choose to live in the city unless you're a hipster faggot that likes noisy littered streets and brown people.

>>9649807
>trams
Fucking garbage, aboveground PT that isn't a highspeed train is utter trash.

>>9650204
no I'm really interested to know what point you were making by comparing the price of an entire house in idaho to a studio apartment in a real place.

>>9650229
What makes where you live a real place as opposed to Idaho, which I have to now assume is a pretend place.

>>9650229
I checked out of curiosity, and unless you're trying to live right outside of times square you can get a 2br unit in yonkers for about $2k/mo at 600sq ft, which is only slightly more per sqft than the units you can get here.
Except that Boise has 10x less population per square mile, which means those rates are hyper fucking inflated here.

>>9650081
Boise? Thats a shame if so, I remember almost moving there 6 years ago(I also visited) and pricing seemed really cheap for rentals and its a beautiful city. Its a shame to see it has been ruined by california idiots.

>>9650204
>buy a McMansion in Idaho
>half the rooms are empty because I don’t have an 8 person family
>have to wake up at 6am in winter to shovel
>have to mow 3 acres in the heat once a week all summer
>256 kbit internet costs $100/month
>closest store is an Exxon Mobil 15 minutes away
>women are all ugly as fuck country grrrlz
>have a heart attack
>ambulance has to drive 25 minutes to get to my house
>die

>2017
>Not eating Puerto Rican takeout on the CTA with the goons and daring anybody to say anything about it

>>9650253
It's mostly the "no this part is actually boise" area, if you're willing to move out towards meridian or deal with the commute from nampa its still dirt cheap.
Which I'm starting to consider more and more because downtown absolutely sucks now, all the good hole-in-the-wall shop and restaurants got replaced with chain-owned hipster cafes, brewery gastropubs, and pretentious suburban middle-aged-white-woman eateries like Flatbread.
It's not really worth living close to with the prices and shitty state of everything.

It's still a nice enough place to live but califags are very rapidly ruining it.
Great time to own property here though, my ma's house was purchased 5 years ago for $150k and is now worth about $380k

>>9650261
>256 kbit internet costs $100/month
Actually 60mbps for 29.99.
>closest store is an Exxon Mobil 15 minutes away
Depends, but there should be a grocery store of some merit every 15 minutes or so.
>women are all ugly as fuck country grrrlz
Contrary to urban belief, dental care and basic hygiene exist in the country.
>have a heart attack
>ambulance has to drive 25 minutes to get to my house
Modern ambulances have all they need to get you on your feet. The only reason you would need to go to the hospital is to run tests and determine risk factors. In the event of a major heart attack, they might need to do surgery or drain some shit but an ambulance and EMT can still prevent your death 99% of the time.

>>9650283
Shh, don't confuse him. He thinks anybody who owns a home in cheap states lives in a town of 50 people and is 300 miles away from the nearest modern piece of infrastructure.

>>9650261
>have a heart attack at 5PM in the city
>ambulance can't get to you for three hours because every street is a parking lot

>>9650291
That's why he's conveniently ignored my request for a definition of "flyover", as well as whether there's a distinction between large cities that are not nearly as expensive or overcrowded as NYC or SF.

>>9649807
JIJ
KRIJGT
DIE
LACH NIET VAN MIJN GEZICHT

>>9650025
Your country has 17 times the minorities. Sounds fair.

>>9650304
Flyover is just an insult buttmad coasties use to dismiss all the enormous negatives of living in SF/LA/NYC.

>>9650312
Go back to eating rotten fish, hans

>>9650316
How does it feel to be
5 7%
7
%
White? It must be godawful.
Enjoy your McGoy meal with HFCS water (now died red to capture the attention of Americans!)

>>9650341
Whoa there, that's a mighty racist sentiment!
You should really consider being a little more progressive in your views, friend, we all have to share this planet you know!

>>9650341
In a few states it is closer to 97% white.

>>9650270
Wow sucks to hear thats happening to Boise, I remember when I was there though thinking this cheapness can't possibly last. It's always been in the back of my mind too after hearing what happened to colorado I only expected it to reach Boise in time. Speaking of housing though I remember walking from a hotel near the airport all the way to downtown(which took forever and I ended up getting chafed skin) and seeing some pretty weird houses I've never seen before in my life, very small tiny houses. But I always thought it would be cool to live in one of them.

>>9650432
There are a LOT of those weird tiny cottage houses here for some reason. No idea why. They mostly belong to really old people or get rented out to college students.
They go for like $1200/mo now though, which sucks ass because all the apartment complexes here were built like shit and are super fucking loud. It's impossible to avoid loud neighbors.
Also wew, that's a longass walk with a whole lot of nothing in between.

>>9649829
I live in Southern California. Can you project more? Fucking autists man.

>>9649807
Now that you’ve achieved success in transportation, how about solving some of the problems you left behind in Afrikaaland.

This thread is dead.

top tier
>chaffeur

mid tier
>public transport

complete cuck tier
>driving yourself

Look we get you enjoying driving a car because that's pretty much the only bit in your life that you have a small degree of control over, but you could be using that time you waste on something productive like people intelligent enough to let someone else do the driving.

>>9650520
>this level of damage control

>>9650520
>I, the enlightened coastie roastie, utilize every nanosecond of my free time perfecting my mind as I do not have the burden of transporting myself.
You're like the NEET meme.

A S C E N D E D

>>9650729
>not even burning dinosaur bones to locomote yourself

top pleb

>>9649807
"Door een anrijding met een persoon rijden er geen treinen tussen..."

>>9649749
I legit only see blacks and hispanics do this

>>9650009
This

>>9650729
I've never been knocked down by a car but these cyclist assholes nearly hit me all the time. They don't even follow road rules, they speed down One Way streets!

>>9649942
Who the fuck leaves time to eat breakfast on the way to work? Just drive there as fast as possible and wake up after you're there.

>>9649900
>>9649920
>>9649933
Learning to drive here will knock you back around $1200 a shitty 10 year old econobox is another $1500 and first years insurance will be $1500.
Literally only people who drive at the legal age (17) are spoilt rich kids and generally remains that way into our early 20s.

Bongland.

>>9649889
>200$ for a license
Holy shit, it cost me 1200€

>>9649923
fuck new york

>Friday/Saturday night in the UK

>>9650520
>Have to stop and load/ynload every 3 minutes , making a five minute commute into thirty minutes
Nah

>>9649749
I'm basically a contractor in an in-demand sector of the entertainment industry. I eat on the go, and driving/parking doesn't make sense sometimes.

>>9650114
that's a big mistake I did too. but I tried everything in the book to get hired right after college and nothing worked and couldn't find a job for 3 years straight. Then gave up for a while and no one wants to hire me. even an internship is hard for me to find.

>>9650341
I don't live in California, new York or the South though. The only thing we have are Mexicans who are much less dangerous than the fucking Muslims infesting your country.

>>9649902
That good eurofeel

>>9651393
Can you not register the shitbox in your parents' name and be put on their insurance for that car instead to lower the premiums?

t. Debtland (that's how we roll)

>>9650480
That sounds pretty awful I live over in East Idaho and rent is only shit in rexburg thanks to the city being backwards shit heads who won't let the town grow and the damn school. I live out in st anthony so it's cheap here but fuck rexburg rent prices.

>>9651947
Yeah boise is fucked, and garden city is getting overhauled too so prices are skyrocketing up along State St too.
Like I said, Meridian and Nampa are cheap still if you can deal with the commute, and theyre even getting a lot of new complexes and buildings that are really nice.
But there's no way those are gunna stay around for cheap, it's only a matter of time before the TV area is totally fucked.

>>9649749
I have never seen anyone eating on the train in the morning. Drinking coffee yes, but not food.

>>9649883
Depends on preference, a lot of people live there because of that.

>>9651968
That sucks man. Boise can't support that kinda shit. It'll crash after the actual workers leave thanks to shit being to expensive.

>>9649975
This
>26
>live in Wyoming mountains
>started driving at 16
>driven in worst possible conditions including blizzards and over rock crawling tier terrain
>driven over 250k miles since starting.

Not a single wreck either exept when some faggot rear ended me after burning up his brakes going down a mountain pass. Also lived in Houston for a little while, fuck that place.

>>9650347
Don't worry, he will blow an extra migrant for the both of us.

>>9649789
>Never even learned how to drive a moter vehicle
Learning to drive requires practice. Not everyone can get someone to let them practice.

>>9651935
You can go via your parents insurance and get them on your policy, will reduce it from around 1500 to 1000.

It's still a massive investment

>>9652044

I live in Boston, FOB Asian university kids love eating on the train

>>9649933
I was about to agree with you until I saw that people don't need to pass the driving portion of the test. Where are you where people can drive a 1-2ton vehicle without learning how to control it? What idiot removed the practical test? You're from Maryland, aren't you?

>>9649807
Considering my state is bigger than Dutch, 30 euros is a lot for a place so small.

>>9653692
Not the guy you're responding to but Maryland drivers really are the fucking worst. Never seen anything like it in my life.

>>9653692
I'm not the guy you're replying to, but in many US states you don't have to take the practical portion of the driving exam *IF* you have a certificiate showing you passed a state-approved Driver's Ed class with a driving exam. You still have to take the exam, it's just that it's part of your driver's ed class rather than something you take at the DMV.

It certainly works that way in Texas. I remember doing that both for a normal driver's license when I was 16 and for a motorcycle license I got in my 20's. You bring your certificate from a state-accredited driving/riding school to the DMV and that counts for the "practical exam".

>>9649920
The first time I went to the DMV to take the test I saw a guy get tased. I don't know how they do it now but back then if you failed once you had to wait 24 hours, then if you failed a second or third time you'd have to wait a month and this black guy failed a second time and started smashing the machine you take the test on in a blind rage, cop came up and tased the shit out of him.

>all the butthurt car owners in this thread trying to convince themselves that they enjoy having to pay thousands of dollars just to travel around their own city.
Yes good goy, keep falling for the suburban meme. You don't want to live within walking or biking distance of any essential services because that's dangerous. Stay safe in your secluded neighborhoods, specifically placed away from everything else so that you have no other choice but to drive. Keep telling yourself that you love driving through city traffic or hundreds of miles of boring highways or flatland, because getting anywhere without a car is too hard :'(

>>9653742
That's true in every state I've lived in as well. The problem is you never have to take it again when you renew your license. That's one reason there are so many fuckheads who drive like shit and old fossils with alzheimers who forget they're driving and plow into people and buildings.

>>9651475
EUR 1900 here, 2 years ago.

>>9649807
>OV Chipcard

Enjoy your botnet.

>>9653760
>He is proud to pay big $ for the privilege of sharing a confined space with niggers every time he leaves his apartment

Where does this "only poor people use public transport" meme come from? Trains in NYC are filled with all types and demographics. It's much less of a hassle than trying to park and often quicker if you're getting around Manhattan. You get a cab if you need to carry a lot of stuff.

>>9654344
>big money
I pay 32 burger bucks a week to use the trains and buses as much as I please. Just the parking alone in NYC can cost $20 or more.

>>9653760
But I do love driving.
So much so I became an engineer so I could work on developing engines to make cars go faster.
I love driving so much I did the mongol rally so I could drive to mongolia. I loved it so much I did it again the next year AND THEN DROVE BACK.
I hate city driving because its not driving its idling in procession.
I quit my city job so I could live in the country side and drive on real roads. I even moved further away from work so I'd have a longer commute.
There is literally nothing I like more than cars and driving cars and talking about cars and working on cars. I think about cars all day, then I work with cars all day then I come home and think about cars before going to bed to dream about cars.

>>9654440
Cars are gay

>>9654347
it probably came out of small towns where the busses are few and far between and everyone just travels by car

>>9654347
If you're anything like my city you have the nice lines (Green line and parts of the Red line) and the more "ethnic lines" (Orange and Blue)

>>9654347
>Where does this "only poor people use public transport" meme come from?

If comes from the 99% of the population who doesn't live in Manhattan. Even there in Manhattan it's mostly subhumans who use it. Anyone who can afford it uses a car service/limosine because no one wants to be around criminals

>>9654355
>$1700 a year to be treated like cattle

>>9654666
>Even there in Manhattan it's mostly subhumans who use it.
No.
>Anyone who can afford it uses a car service/limosine because no one wants to be around criminals
Again, no. I work in one of the largest office buildings in Manhattan. It's predominately architects, design firms, photography studios and fashion. Everyday there are HORDES of us (and by us I mean the people working office jobs, not the janitors) walking to station at 16th/14th and 8th or taking the shuttles to Port Authority/GCS. It's my ancedote against yours but I think you're delusional or making shit up if you think it's nothing but criminals and the destitute. It's convenient, quicker than driving (most of the time) and cheap.

>>9649942
haven't been in that situation in years. welfare rules

>>9654679
>wahhh the black man glanced at me on the train, mommy give me milkies!

>>9650262
i ride the red line to work
all the cars smell like bum shit and unwashed nigs
id vomit up my breaky senpai

>get on the NY subway
>there is clearly a corpse in the back of the traincar
>everyone's pretending it's not there
>approach despite the smell
>it's still alive, just homeless

>depart the train car
>have to literally step over a passed out homeless guy to reach the exit
People in cities act like this is normal and acceptable and not fucking horrifying and sad
City folk are animals

>>9651733
>have to stop and wait five minutes at every traffic light, making a five minute commute into two hours

>>9654863
>>have to literally step over a passed out homeless guy to reach the exit
>City folk are animals
So you're being critical of "city folk" not batting an eye at homeless man #3756 sleeping on the train and yet you did nothing to help the guy?

>>9654893
>implying it is any different on a bus or in a cab
You don't magically get green lights on public transport.

>>9654917
Waking him up would have been rude, sleep is probably his only reprieve

>>9654924
Trains don't worry about streetlights.

>>9654924
What savage city doesn't have bus lines?

>>9654932
No, but they do have longer load and unload times and tend to be filled with the worst people.

>>9654863
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dftDPLAylU

>>9654936
>magically able to cheat traffic lights and barrel through red lights
Enjoy your traffic accidents.

>>9654945
catchy

>>9654945
Nice

>>9654945

>>9654936
one where the road network wasn't designed by literal retards

>>9654620

Boston.

>>9655060
>tfw too intelligent to have a working public transport system

Was on the tube coming home from work today and saw a chinese woman eating a raw potato

>>9655093
Raw potatoes are great sliced and salted.

>>9655095
She was just munching on an unpeeled potato

>>9649749
>poeple who choose to drive public shit

>>9655103
That's where the vitamins are

>>9650027
False, LA's public transit is third-world tier and only suitable for poor people. Did you really think people in LA take buses and subways to get to work?

>>9655083
working being the operative word.
I have never taken a bus and thought "wow this was really good! can't wait to do this again!"

>>9649891
Eh, I didn’t get my license until I was nearly 21. I just drove with no license for about 5 years and got lucky. Then I got pulled over, got my license the next week and they dismissed the ticket. Cool story huh?

>>9649889
Damn, when you put it that way it makes me look down on those people even more.

>>9650045
WRONG it always comes with two sticks

me and my sister would often share them, sometimes even precisely cutting the pouches so we could take one and dip as we pleased before trading, or just have a full pouch each with one stick each

>>9650087
>>9650102
only the strong survive

>>9650113
i never understood this meme applying to the modern era. this used to be true, but after like the 40s all the jobs moved to suburban office and industrial parks rather than cities.

>>9649883
imagine pontificating about a country you're not from

>>9654863
Wrong, it's unpopular to publicly hate poor people here so I just keep to myself. If it were publicly acceptable I'd shoot every homeless person I see.

>>9649749
Probably some scheduling desu
Sometimes you just need to be everywhere at the same time

>>9649829
>live in Europoor
>everything is great
>everything except public transport
>sure it gets you to work faster than by car (no traffic jams)
>sure you get to sleep on the ride there cause no weird shit happens
>however trains are too short so everything is overcrowded
>had to help someone who was about to pass out cause it was so sardine crowded
>trains not leaving the station cause too many people onboard
>have to sit on the stairs half the time
>several times a year when the first leaf falls from the tree everything stops running cause muh leaves on the track
>every winter the same shit happens
>meanwhile german best train runs through snowstorms not giving a fuck, on our tracks

>>9649807
Did I mention the above is the Netherland's trainsystem?

>>9655583
What if we gave them food and a place to stay do we didn't have to see them ever

>>9655583
you'd hate Montreal, there's a huge homeless population all of a sudden and it seems to grow larger every day

and theyre all really belligerent

i dont disagree with you though

>>9655616
economically unviable -- there should be special entry programs to temp agencies and military service for the homeless though, like we have for abbos

if you were on the street, would you not jump at the chance for a free trip to quebec to get fed and watered and handed a FREE assault rifle?

>>9649900
>>9649920
>>9649933

How to get a license as an adult:

1. Make appointment for earliest available date at DMV (3-4 weeks). Or wait in line for approximately 3-4 hours.

2. Provide social security card and birth certificate and turn in permit application. $40

3. Take permit test. [Test includes questions about rules of the road, speed limits and safety rules]

4. Come back at a later date to take driving test. (You can bribe to pass this). [1 critical error will be an instant fail]

I think you get 4 tries but you have to pay to retake the driving test.

You do not need any drivers Ed or any school certificates to get a license if you are 18.

>>9655630
so why do so many illegals and spics have licenses then?

and in any case, at least it's not quebec:

1. Register for an accreddited driving school at full cost to you. Maximum cost is 800 CAD.

2. Do theoretical studies at driving school for about one full year, with one or two night a weeks, depending on the school's schedule and teaching style.

3. Provide social proof of residence in Quebec and therefore also Canada, and also your Social Insurance Number, and proof from the driving school

4. Take permit written test.

5. Begin practical training on year 2 at the same driving school you first signed up for. Or, take on a new 800 dollar contract if you feel like it or if your school doesn't have enough cars to study with. (The car will probably be a shitty automatic FWD shitbox from 1999)

6. About 18 months after you started, once you are done driving school, you may now take the practical test. (You cannot bribe to pass this and need to drive the equivalent of Rallycross down Pikes Peak because Quebec roads are garbage and are pretty euro-style windy and full of aggressive lunatics.) [failure to speak fluent french will be an instant fail]

7. If you pass, you now have a Probationary License. You cannot drink at all when driving and anything above 0 BAC will result in instant license seizure, and you only get 4 Demerit Points (a single speeding ticket is already 3, a parking ticket or similar routine driving misconduct is usually 2), and this state lasts for two years.

Quebec answered the "can't drive; too many lunatics on the road already" problem by making it incredibly difficult to become a new driver

>>9650087

> why do city people have higher iqs?


Because thats where the black people live and they are all scientists and doctors

>>9655620
Wouldn't really work for the drug addicted and mentally ill
Reagan eliminated all of the places we used to keep our mentally ill so now the street is the place

>>9655718
>Wouldn't really work for the drug addicted and mentally ill
i can tell you first hand that most of the CF is either drug addicted or mentally ill. i myself have some kind of mood problem and recurring agoraphobia and anxiety, and ive met a lot of cokeheads in my short time in just the army reserves

just because it's a well-paid volunteer force (actually one of the best paid in the world) doesn't mean it's not still the rejects and cuttings from the traditional job market

>Reagan eliminated all of the places we used to keep our mentally ill
reagan also banned guns, reagan did a lot of things wrong. thats what happens when you elect celebrities to be politicians instead of the other way around

>>9655726
Coke is a hobby not an addiction

>>9655743
ive heard of people getting deep enough into it that it impacts their work, and that they have to do a bump here or there like a normal person has to have a cup of coffee.

it's not 1942 anymore -- we have standards. issued amphetamines only!!

Why argue over such trivial shit as to why some people use public transport, and others do not? Why the fuck does it matter?

>>9649829
>not living in a city with bike lanes where you can bike to work without needing a car or public transit.
Enjoy your cage.

>>9655974
>he doesn't run over bikers on the way to work for fun

After reading this thread it makes so much sense why Yanks have such a high rate of traffic mortality.
>give a 16 year old a 2 tonne car
>next to no test
>crumbling infrastructure
>everybody on their phone
>driving is treated as a right not a privilege
>most states have zero vehicle inspections because 'muh big gov meddling'

I don't know how you people would leave the house for work with all that going on.

>>9658143
>give a 16 year old a 2 tonne car
>next to no test
They need their license, and at 16 there is a much longer process than at 18.
>crumbling infrastructure
Where do you get your information? Even rural villages have high standards.
>everybody on their phone
Literally illegal. You cannot tune your radio where I am without getting pulled over for distracted driving.
>driving is treated as a right not a privilege
Literally only boomers think this.
>most states have zero vehicle inspections because 'muh big gov meddling'
Literally illegal and you will get pulled over immediately for even one day of outdated inspection stickers.
Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

>>9658453
So you live in a good state?

I've heard most states have no inspection and people can drive whatever the fuck.

Even a longer process seems minor to most other developed countries.

Yes being on your phone is illegal but doen't stop people doing it.

Many people do think driving is a right in a society built around the car.

The public spending around American infrastructure is infamously dodgy everywhere as it's a hodge podge of private enterprises trying to blame the government.

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/02/25/Roads-Crumble-Infrastructure-Spending-Hits-30-Year-Low

https://www.ft.com/content/20c50478-ca16-11e3-ac05-00144feabdc0

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/falling-apart-america-neglected-infrastructure/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Isabella_Causeway

How the fuck a country like the US has such catastrophic bridge failures is amazing.

>>9655974
*bikes through red light*

>>9658471

Most of what you "know" is Jew propaganda. Looking at the map the only countries with a lower rate are Spain, England and canada, countries where the people are too poor to afford cars or gas

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate#/media/File%3ARoad_traffic_accidents_world_map_-_Death_-_WHO2012.svg

>>9658453
>give a 16 year old a 2 tonne car
>>next to no test
>They need their license, and at 16 there is a much longer process than at 18.
A two week driver's ed course is hardly a long or difficult process and licenses cost like $20, in the EU you have to do months of classes and pay a huge amount of money for a license
>>crumbling infrastructure
>Where do you get your information? Even rural villages have high standards.
D- infrastructure rating needed at least a $1trillion upkeep
>>everybody on their phone
>Literally illegal. You cannot tune your radio where I am without getting pulled over for distracted driving.
Hand free driving means you can talk on your phone and voice text which doesn't get rid of the distraction at all
>>driving is treated as a right not a privilege
>Literally only boomers think this.
When you turn 18 all you need to do is go to the DMV, take a 15 minute course and practical, and you get your license. That's as close to a right as you can get.
>>most states have zero vehicle inspections because 'muh big gov meddling'
>Literally illegal and you will get pulled over immediately for even one day of outdated inspection stickers.
You have 30 days after your registration expires to get safety inspected. Learn the law asshole.
>Do you believe everything you read on the internet?
Does anyone?

>>9652059
Boise isn't expensive unless you are a millennial retard who expects shit to be free

>>9658515
>>9658471
I guess I do live in a good state, but I am originally from England. I find that American infrastructure is only slightly worse than it is there. At least on the east and west coasts, most of the Northeast, and certain parts of the central and western regions.

>>9658515
They cost more like $75, and you have to pass a driving test at the very least. For anyone under 18 the process also requires certification from a driver's ed course and a written (or computerized) test or two. I don't know where the bribery aspect comes from mentioned in this thread. If your local DMV does this, you really need to report it.

Hands-free driving? Literally what is that? Self driving cars? Do you mean hands free calling and texting? If so, it does get allow you to use both hands on the wheel and keep your eyes on the road.

As for the inspection law, it probably differs between most states. Here where I live, you can be pulled over the second it is out of date. That is the law. All registered vehicles, motorcycles & trailers are required to pass an annual inspection, and all must be registered.

>>9649749
I eat in my car because in too depressed to cook and eat at home.

>>9655974
>Implying cities with good public transit don't also tend to be bike friendly.
If you could afford to ride a bus you'd see people putting their bikes on it

>>9655597
>>meanwhile german best train runs through snowstorms not giving a fuck, on our tracks
Anon, it's the same shit in germany. Ever year they act as if it's the first snow fall in centuries. And don't get me started on gypsies and niggers stealing shit from you if it's sardine crowded or you dare to fall asleep.

It isn't even cheaper, it's just kind of the only way to get to work on time due to our mediveal cities.

>>9655974
Riding in your suit to work, sweating like a big in the slautherhouse in the summer, lloking like a wet dog in the fall and freezing your balls of before falling into brown shit-snow with no-snow-chains in winter.

The only people biking to work are those not having a real work.

>>9649914
When that nigger raped and robbed that stupid white bitch after she whipped out her wallet full of 20s.

>>9658543
Can you actually get good food there? I don't need meme cuisine but I want something more than sports bar takeout.