Is your car, or owning a car itself a status thing for you, Veeky Forums?

I had cars all my adult life until I moved to San Francisco a few years back. After a bunch of parking tickets/tows and realizing the City is pretty hostile for cars I got rid of it and rode the bus/walked for the last few years.

Just last December I finally got a car again. I got to the point where I wanted to be more mobile and not bound by bus schedules and by a walking radius. And I'm at the point in my life where I can afford a car without it making me poor.

Here in SF it's definitely not a status thing. Probably close to half the adults who live here don't have a car or use it only for weekend driving. The parking/traffic situation here is just a fucking mess.

If I had to rely on public transportation I'd fucking kill myself. I might have a pretty shitty life but I'm miles ahead of the losers taking the bus and taxis and bumming rides and scheduling everything they do around somebody else. I know a woman with two kids who's 32 and still doesn't have her license, and she gets by on handouts from all the thirsty betas in town because she's got a revolving door on her bedroom. She's nothing but a detriment to society and should be gassed. Maybe it's okay in socialist yurop where EVERYONE is a cuck and public transport works because it has to or else their society collapses, but here in America if you can't drive yourself someplace you're fucking nothing.

You clearly live in a flyover, rural area. Any true city dwellers who are in dense cities, pub trans or biking is juts more logical and cost efficient.

If you live somewhere where people look down on you for not having a car you strive to be less of a hick and move.

>here in America if you can't drive yourself someplace you're fucking nothing

>tfw no car and no license (yet)

A-at least my city's public transit actually works. But I'm sick of being accosted by homeless junkie beggars and unemployed welfare queens on the train.

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You live in a small bubble and don't understand what you're talking about

this guy is 100% correct in the real world

He's obviously trolling. It's true that if you live in a small town you have no choice but to drive everywhere. If you live in a big city, it's more convenient to take public transit because the traffic can get very bad and it ends up being faster to take the subway or the bus.

jfc will you can it with the reddit circle jerk already?

i live in "the big city" and it's absolutely not more convenient to take public transit 99% of the time for me

not all of us have jobs at the office 7 subway stops away

I work in a smallish city that has a bus system and taxis. I choose to live 10 miles outside the city in a real HOUSE for the same monthly cost as an apartment in the city. I have a garage, two bathrooms, a kitchen separate from the rest of my main living space. I have a yard.
A car enables this. Carless morons who think their life is just as valid as mine are paying the same amount to live in a one-room apartment with bars on the windows and a meth lab five doors down, where they can't stay out too late or else the busses stop running. If they have kids, they have to organize their own work and their kids' school and extracurricular events around busses or pay more for a taxi, and often end up paying for more daycare time than they actually need because of conflicting transportation schedules. It's insane, and choosing that lifestyle makes you a lower life-form.

"Strive to be less of a hick" my fucking ass. I'm free to go wherever I want when I want. Strive to be less of a cuck you utter faggot.

Not owning a car drove me crazy for a long time until I finally bought one.

With that being said, I have nothing against public transportation. I enjoy taking the train when I can. If I lived conveniently close to a stop, and had a job that didn't require that I haul tools and parts with me, I'd take public transport and buy a less practical and more fun car.

Yikes, I enjoy driving for the same reasons you just laid out but chill the fuck out lol

He didn't say anything about enoyijg driving, he just pointed out that the idea of city people looking down on people living in rural areas and "needing" a car is fucking stupid.

I won't. Death to hipsters and white trash who voluntarily stack themselves in cubes on top of each other.

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the car she painted was just some random car she found parked there. Can you imagine the reaction of the guy coming back to his car? "WTF! Who did this to my fucking car?! FUCKING artists!!! FUUUUUUUCK!!!"

lol...

For me just owning a car and not having to take the bus or rely on someone for rides is good enough status for me. I don't really care about the type of car I have ( i mean a nice to look at and reliable one would be great), but its not the car I care so much about from a status standpoint.

My job is on the outskirts of the city and it's absolutely more convenient for me to drive rather than take the public transit, which is an hour and a half trip on average. All of my coworkers are also driving because they commute to different cities. However, in my city, if your job is within the city center it's definitely more viable to take the public transit because the traffic jams get very bad. It depends on your city and I'm not trying to accost you for driving to work. I actually think that part of the reason that driving is so bad in my city is because of numerous policies that are expressly hostile to motorists (ie, trying to decommission highways, reducing the number of lanes on arterial roads and building bike lanes, "green spaces", etc).

I mean the practicality of driving. I like not having to walk up the street at 11:27pm in order to not be stranded too, friend.

Also, what is this fucking meme? City folk do not look down on rural folk unless you're a stereotypical hick, and they certainly don't look down on people for driving.

i live in toronto and i drive a corolla that looks like its from mad max, and people stare at me. i need it though because it takes two hours to transit to work and three hours to transit to parents house

user just did, though.

Liberals hate people who drive and try to implement policies to punish success.

It can't be that bad. I saw a completely rusted out Miata on the street a couple of weeks ago. It was bizarre; the thing looked like it came straight from the junk yard. Big gaping rust holes.

You know damn well there are many liberals that love cars and driving, don't make this a stupid political thing.

I've never met a liberal that liked cars. According to liberals, cars cause global warming and we should all ride our bikes or the train.

3/10 bait, I almost formulated an in-depth reply

Ever seen a political map? Liberals are all huddled in the dense city areas, conservatives are everywhere else. Liberals have a fetish for bicycles and "clean transportation" like public transit that runs off recycled food oil or cow shit. Liberals drive the fucking Prius or other electric meme-mobiles when they're forced to buy a car. They fucking hate driving because it means responsibility and that means one more way they can (and will) fucking fail at life.

I sold my 2016 VW Scirocco R because I barely drove it, would rather ride my motorbike 99% of the time. It wasn't really a status thing, just thought i needed a car, but I don't really for my current lifestyle. I'll rent a car/ute/van whehever i actually need one.

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And honestly, if you aren't driving you're kinda fucked I feel. You can't go where you want when you want. Bus rides have designated stops and don't stop exactly where you need it to. It seems like a major hassle, plus having your own car means instead of an hour bus ride you're there in 15 minutes in your own car. As well as this, the USA is a lot bigger than your shithole yurope countries where they're all combined not even the size of Texas

I live in DC and the traffic is horrible and the Metro has gone down the shitter because nobody wants to pony up the money to fix it.

This has caused traffic in the DC area to increase.
dailycaller.com/2016/06/08/dc-commuters-abandon-metro-making-already-horrible-traffic-even-worse/

Getting to work in this area is a catch 22. Drive and get stuck in traffic or catch the metro and get delayed because of track work and broken trains,

Literally was discussing this last week

Metro used to be the future, now apart from going to bars and Nats Park/the Verizon Center driving is becoming way more viable again

>would you feel different about yourself if you:

>didn't own a car?
yes I'd feel worthless, buses can't haul stuff, and I live in bumfuck nowhere so everything would take an extra 2-3 hours waiting for local buses, let alone leaving the area
>Drinking on the hound incoming
also since self-employed I'd have to pay someone with a truck or rent one to acquire supplies and do my job
>had your license suspended?
honestly If I fucked up this bad i would ride the bus tho
>couldn't afford a car?
that's unpossible, I'm already poverty-tier and do all my own vehicle work, if i was really that poor I couldn't afford gas I'd go flip burgers

Owning a car is necessity. I can't use public trans to get to my job. I loved using the metro when I could in DC though.

That said I would feel bad about myself if I lost the ability to have a car or the license. That would be a failure on my part to maintain a good standard of living.

The traffic is so much worse than it was even three years ago.

bah...lets all think back to when the Wilson bridge (and the rest of goddamn 495 and everything touching it) was being rebuilt and be glad it isn't then again.

Traffic trying to cross in the afternoon is as bad or worse than it was prereplacement.

It's the opposite of status for me. It means I live in the worthless boring suburbs instead of the city.

[spoiler]Love driving it though. It's an 86 plz no bully[/spoiler]

Traffic and metro are so bad that biking to work is faster than either option. I manage to beat the traffic by biking down the SE side of Penn Ave while the cars are stuck trying to get to the core of the city.

And then there's the poor bastards that have to use 66 and 395. Those routes are JUST tier. I cant understand why somebody would live out that way in NOVA when they have to commute 66 everyday.

only losers care about this kind of thing

couldnt care less about how others perceive me

this too

I wouldnt even have a car if I didnt need it

It's not a status thing, but it is a freedom thing.

The fusible link on my car burnt out, and I couldn't replace it with a generic part. Had to get an oem piece ordered in from the USA (I'm a fucking leaf) and it took a full week to arrive.

That week was the worst I've felt in years, because I was all but stranded. I could walk to work, I could get friends to pick me up if I really needed groceries, but it felt like I woke up one morning and my legs didn't work. There was nothing to actually stop me from living my life, but the level of freedom of mobility that was second nature to me was gone. I'm buying a second shitbox so I never, ever have to feel that way again.

This feel right here

I JUST got my first car not too long ago, I don't hate the bus or whatever but being able to go where i want when I want...it's just how life was supposed to be.

I hate buses and refuse to use them. I would have to resort to cycling everywhere again, which is much faster than buses anyway.

I love my car and would never sell it. It's fun and it's a great talking piece. Bus isn't a great option because the ride to work is over an hour long versus a twenty minute drive.

Gonna finance to get a used CR-Z once I get enough for a down payment to save the CRX from being a daily.

I'm actually thinking about cycling to work at least in the warm half of the year. It's only 2.5 miles.

My car is just a transportation device for me. I will be fucked, my commute will grow from 50mins to 2h 30mins per day (because I live in a remote location). Oh, and I will pay like 3 times what I pay now (Civic 1.7 ctdi).

Unless you live in a densely populated city, having a car is most definetly a status symbol. It shows people that you have income, are somewhat responsible, and can get from point a to b without your parents driving you. 99% of the people I run into who don't have a car usually don't have a job or work at mcdonalds, and its obvious that a car is too much responsibility for them.

Obviously it is different in cities. But for me its the easiest way to see if someone is a loser. Do they have a car? No. Do they still live with their parents? Yes. If someone doesn't have a car but still lives on their own and works then that is an exception.

Not really because i drive an uninsured litter box.

If I had to commute by car I'd kms. Traffic is maddening, also gas and parking would make it expensive. My job is 4 km away and I just cycle, and take an uber/taxi if it's raining or whatever. Like this I can own a more fun and sporty car for weekend driving.

>Uber
Opinion discarded

why? it's cheap as fuck and you just cancel the ones driving shitty cars. Also means I can drink at lunch

not but it's very practical for anything

I'm thinking about giving up the car hobby and travel more ...

>this fucking photograph

because not everyone wants to or can rely on public transportation. When my dad had an Apt there he had his car with him and he had a house in Ohio where my stepmom lived and worked.

He'd go back every 2 weeks.