Quote: (04-02-2012 03:43 PM)Moma Wrote:I can walk to work and the bars etc but it wouldn't have helped me much when the carless Ukrainian girl sent me a message to come take her out in N Tampa that's 45 miles away. Cabs would have cost about 150 or more to take her out the first time and it took three to bang. I can name hundreds of other occasions where the fact I had wheels got me laid.
Quote: (04-02-2012 03:40 PM)MikeCF Wrote:
Quote: (04-02-2012 02:08 PM)el mechanico Wrote:
Why would you want to be carless in SoCal? The option would cost more unless you stay in all the time. Not having wheels is a pain in the ass. Run out of smokes then what? Call a cab?
Live in an area with a high walk score.
http://www.walkscore.com/CA
That site doesn't tell the whole picture. There are neighborhoods where the walk score is 98 or 99.
Work in the same area you live in.
A friend of mine lived in Santa Monica, biked to his job (where he was making $200,000+), and never needed to drive.
You can walk to good restaurants, bars, shopping, movies...whatever.
Cab it on the weekend if you want to go farther. Do that, anyway, to avoid a DUI.
Take a shuttle to LAX when you need to fly somewhere.
Going carless is SoCal is very easy.
Mike, is NOT having a car in SoCal seen as a social taboo? What if you swoop a lizard and you tell her you don't have a car? Will she hold that against you? What if you need to be hitting up lizards from different neighbourhoods (a harem)? Is there public transport or is it just a cab thing from A to Z etc?
When I was a teen I got about 90% of my ass in the car parked somewhere.
Tonight I'm free. There's a thick-booty black girl that may want to chill in ST.Pete 30 miles away. Should I ask her to come get me or take a taxi there? Bounce venues in her car? I may want to chill at the casino and hit up some Tampa girl that just came on the radar via text. Who knows but it's my choice when and where.