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Anon likes bikes (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm Dutch and live rural. Used to cycle to school daily, 22km per day.

Never again. I need a car for work as I visit clients alot. I think cities could use bike friendly environments, like we have. But rural, no way. Good luck cycling 2 hours to get somewhere decent if you can drive that in half an hour.

It simply costs too much time, and with the amount of wind and rainfall we had past year is absolutely no fun.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, rural areas will pretty much always need cars or something similar - not just for traversing the massive gaps between places, but also because most rural homes are their own logistics for most things.

It also doesn't help that this conversation itself is a pretty America-centric one. In the US and Canada, dense urbanism does not exist outside of major cities. NotJustBikes on YouTube has many videos talking about just how car-centric and space-inefficient it is here.