Live in LA without a Car?
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- freshdude
Is it possible to be a younger person in LA and work and live without a car?
Just curious.
- jon_d0
only if you work and live in the same area probably
- ArmandoEstrada0
No
- HijoDMaite0
your life will suck. just get a car LA is urban sprawl. it is w i d e not TALL like nyc.
- CanHasQBN0
it's UNPOSSIBLE.
- Seanbot0
Anything is possible, but your life will be incredibly annoying. Buy a cheap car if you can.
- chrisRG0
even for tourist is impossible!
- yocco_my_taco0
Close friend of mine living in LA doing this...went to visit him...not having car there sucks
- 20020
I have done that for 6 months with a bicycle.
I ended up riding cab. Cabs there suck and expensive. I resorted to illegal car service but it was still expensive.
It would have been much cheaper and more convenient if I had bought a crappy car.
- e-wo0
Tried this in 2008. Lasted 6 weeks. The bus system is fucked (many are on loops that don't intersect) and the sprawl in unkind to cabfare. Ended up craiglisting the cheapest car I could find, which I still have and love today.
- e-pill0
scarabin doesnt have a car right? he seems to manage just fine..
- fxone0
i live and work in venice and get along fine with a bike + the occasional cab + getting lifts from friends
- fxone0
i have taken the bus like twice from venice to west LA / downtown etc. takes an hour.
- jfletcher0
I did it.... ended up walking and biking a lot. Walked about 4 miles a day. On days I took classes at GCC I would bike, otherwise it'd be hours a day walking.
- akrok0
some places has better connections then others. it all matters where you live and where you going.
i took the bus a few times to santa monica. takes almost the same time as with the car. well, cause it was rush hour. nothing moves then, anyway.
- formed0
Short answer is "no", but I could imagine living somewhere, like Santa Monica, and walking/bus/bike. But you'd need to work very close, etc.
I think it sucks either way.
- BattleAxe0
i lived in west l.a. overland and venice area car got totaled and made it 3 months ok with no car , long walks and jacking grocery carts , at the time Blue Bus was .50 cents/ metro $1.50 so i got around west side , downtown ok, but that was it,not sure what fares look like now
- sublocked0
ahahahahahahahahaha
- akrok0
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