Ohio. Cincinnati, specifically. It’s not 100 to 0 women resources to men, it’s more like 55 to 5. There are some cold weather shelters for men, and places to eat, but mostly there are zero beds unless you’re willing to sign up for a drug testing program, and even then there are costs and limited spaces. There are quite a few women’s shelters in the area.

If a woman is going homeless there are resources. If it’s a man there’s almost nothing. I work serving the unhoused.

In the winter people walk in the plowed roads in Michigan. But mostly people ride snowmobiles everywhere when there’s a lot of snow on the ground. You don’t want to be walking on a snowmobile track.

But can you fit four 200kg people in the Miata?

This why I drive anything less than 2500 miles. That’s two days of driving and I get to see the country. Flying would take a whole day anyway, and then I’d have to get a rental car on the other end anyway. Plus it’s difficult to find a decent lifted 4wd rental, and I usually travel to spend time in the mountains on unimproved roads and hiking and camping. Probably similar carbon footprint to flying anyway.

I’m inside the 275 loop in Cincinnati but can’t get downtown without getting a ride in a car to a bus station. At that point, might as well just use the car to get downtown. Or to wherever else I’m going. Train travel is WAY too slow in the US. I’ve never had a vacation longer than a week, I’d barely be arriving at anywhere interesting and I would already be due back at work.

This is SOOOO much more bike friendly than anything near my home. We don’t have sidewalks, no shoulder on the road. Just two narrow lanes, high speed limits and lots of big trucks, with a rocky ditch on the side.

I’ve never been to Toronto but I’ll be there next week. Parking is a mess where I’m staying near downtown, I may use this!

My area has no local bus routes but it does have on demand shuttles via our county’s senior services. That doesn’t help with commuters or people trying to go shopping or to the doctor etc though. The biggest challenge is for young adults just getting started making low wages but needing to be able to afford housing, food and transportation.

Where I live 90% of the homeless have cars, or are at least in a relationship with someone who has one. Many of them sleep in them. Because here you can live without a house but you can’t live without a car. Walking or biking the roads is deadly. Like you WILL die. Poor people have cars.

It’s probably not anywhere near the same situation. I lived a year in Nijmegen in the Netherlands and a year in Duesseldorf in Germany. I’ve ridden my bike from Duesseldorf to Belgium and back, including rural areas.

Where I live, the nearest bus route is 7km away, and it only goes downtown. I almost never go downtown except for concerts or sporting events, but that bus doesn’t run after 6pm.

I can’t bike. I’ve been stuck in this house since the market crash that happened in 2007-2008, I’ve been here 18 years and in that time I’ve seen two people try to commute on bikes, they both disappeared after less than a month. I hope they’re alive.

I have seen more than a dozen bikes on the roadside in memorial of people who died. It’s just deadly for bikes. Tons of huge trucks on narrow curvy lanes with no shoulder, just a ditch. And high speeds.

Rural houses around me are all on well/cistern water and septic systems. I’m not even clear how you’d run sewer way out without elevation gain towards the rural areas, isn’t it largely dependent on gravity?

Eh, they’d just raise taxes to pay for it.

Ah. See, you’re able to ride a bike and not die. My community is not there yet.

I’m not disagreeing with the post, but mass transit is completely non-existent where I live. We have so far to go.

My area is deadly, you can’t walk or bike. Seriously no one bikes. You WILL die. A few people walk, but mostly drug addicts, prostitutes. Most people, even if their license is suspended for DUI, they just keep driving. It’s super dangerous to do anything else.

One time I dropped my car off at the tire shop two miles away and decided to walk home because it was going to be at least a few hours and I knew I had a ride back later. I was dressed semi-nicely so I looked out of place walking the road. In a 3/4 mile strip of road I had four cars stop to offer me a ride.

We go through all the trouble of making signage without language barriers and still can’t communicate, it’s ridiculous. I would 100% misunderstand European signs in a quick moment even knowing what they should mean, because I have to unlearn 40 years of sign instinct.

It’s true and I love the newcomers. But my NES and N64 were both purchased at release and are still one-owner. And used regularly. I also have a 4070ti but I love those old systems.