Comments | dustthouart: changing, changing

dustthouart

changing, changing

Jul 13, 2013 22:23

I'm writing an LJ entry about living life with no car, based on a discussion that happened on Facebook a little while ago. It's almost completed, I just have to write up a few of the drawbacks of not having a car. The basics of the post is, that compared to if we had a car and lived where we do now, we are saving $5k a year or more, and even if we ( Read more... )

joye: domestic entrepreneur, vancouver: one who vancouves, the bean formerly known as mr

Comments 6

DON'T MISS IT A BIT joetexx July 14 2013, 10:04:21 UTC

Haven't driven for nine years, since my health probs got really bad. At first I was actually physically incapable of driving. In 2006 I let my license expire ( ... )

kitsuchan July 14 2013, 17:02:37 UTC

Hooray for living car-free!

ext_708786 July 15 2013, 15:16:55 UTC

It's hard for me to understand your intense desire to meet everyone before the birth...When Sly was born, we had a doula lined up, but she was out of town that day, and sent a replacement. I met our new doula in the hospital, while labor was well-underway. By that point *you don't even care who's there or not*. She was great! And the midwife was one of the ones I hadn't had a chance to meet in the practice - also great. It didn't feel weird that I'd never met her. I knew she was there to help me and that's all that mattered. Same goes for all the hospital's nursing staff.

dustthouart July 15 2013, 15:52:08 UTC

Well, I had the same experience with my first birth--I had met the main midwife once, for less than five minutes (just "Hi, I'm one of the other midwives in the practice"), and the second midwife I had never even seen before. And while they did a good job, it did make me a little uncomfortable at first, simply because I didn't have any personal trust/belief in them. Not that I DISbelieved in them, but I didn't have that sense of confidence that only comes from having previously seen that person in the role of care provider and having a sense of their competence. Plus I have, occasionally, met midwives etc whom I know would NOT be a good fit with me personality wise, and I was a little anxious that they might turn out to be that. Fortunately neither did, but there was just that little anxiety that they might.

magpiefirefly July 15 2013, 20:20:56 UTC

Julia engaged and floated up to the very end. Silly kid.

I look forward to the car post. I miss not having a car. When we lived in the city, I didn't have a car, and Dan had one purely to get to his parents' house on Sundays. Just yesterday, I was lamenting to Dan how nice it was to be carless. I was on time more often, relying on train schedules and leaving earlier to compensate, and I was far more fit. I did spend more on nice coffee and tea, walking past all those shops, but I wasn't buying gas, fluids, inspections. Now, I feel like the hassle is getting out the stroller when, before, the stroller was the vehicle, and already part of the deal. *sigh* Some day.

salanth July 17 2013, 01:16:11 UTC

Yep, we've always been car-free as well. We use those savings to eat out, heh. The only times we miss it is when we wanted to get a bunch of bookcases from Ikea. We had them delivered, which was annoying, but that was the most reasonable option. It would be useful to get our licenses back, though. I let mine lapse because I screwed up the first test and bad timing to re-take it. Meh, now I have to learn miles. Ugh.

I'd also like to take some trips to the national parks and stuff around here.