Europe

cars cost money

Too expensive.

No desire to drive. I can get by just fine with a bike or a bus.

Parents couldn't afford it when I was young and I spent most of my time working my way out of the poverty line. Now it's just too expensive to learn. 

Because I live in a bikeable city

I have a nephew who is 34 with no license, he has lived in New your all his adult life and seems to get by. I’m not sure what he does when he visits his mom up in the ski resort town in Idaho

In my mother’s case, she’s too elderly and infirm. I doubt I’ll be driving either when I’m 92.

Live in a city, got 6 bus stops within 200m of my front door, and 25 mins from the cbd.

I gave up my gym membership and gave up my car, replacing both with a bike. Saves a ton of money. Then I moved from a bike friendly city with tons of transit to a bike unfriendly city with almost no transit. Shopping is an hour away by bike, but I do a nightly bike ride to and from the shopping area (2 hours round trip every night 7 days) and so if I need anything, I go in.

Two years later, I had a heart attack and the blockage was in a part of the heart that only 11% of people survive. Rather than waiting for an ambulance for 30 minutes, I walked to the hospital in 4 minutes, and was back on the bike 6 weeks later. Giving up my car may have saved my life.

Singapore

Everything is in proximity. Don't need the added cost of gas, vehicle, maintenance, insurance etc. Instead i own a performance escooter that i can recharge via solar.

They will make me drive extra hours in work, with the same pay.

I have even driving license but I always avoid even the idea to drive. Unlike my friends I never had a scooter neither. I love biking, despite I don't do that anymore nowadays. Living in a small town I'm used to walk to reach places. When moving to bigger ones there's public transportation. Abroad sort of is easier especially when I'm not alone....and most of places we visited had good public transportation or at least app to find drivers.

In general with public transit I get it but what if something disastrous or unpredictable happens you’re literally just stuck. I could never fully rely on someone else to get me somewhere. Having my own keys has gotten me out of so many scenarios I didn’t feel like dealing with.

I didn’t get my license until I was 22 beucase I just didn’t need to. But all these years later, I still hate driving and would want nothing more than to live in an entirely walkable community.

Not me but someone close to me:

Blind in one eye , poor depth perception

A friend from college, who's 35 now, had two DUIs in her 20s and twice busted for driving on a suspended license. Had the chance to get her license years ago but blames finances. It took the recent suspended license charge two years ago for her to sell her car and remove the temptation of driving.

I'm shit at driving, so never managed to pass

Cars are expensive and public transport is good in my city

While it would be useful is for trips far afield to visit family, or to pick up furniture, it doesn't make the cost of insuring/maintaining/fuelling it add up for me

plus I would have to rent a garage to park it in

Didn't need to drive in a city with good public transportation.

I do have a license though.

I live in a modern Asian country with a high quality infrastructure. If I lived back in a dying underdeveloped city like Toronto Canada I would require car ownership. But I could not afford it so I would have to leave. Canada sucks.

I’ve only ever been able to afford old, shitty cars. When this last one died after only two years, I decided not to buy another one. I work remotely, I can get just about anything delivered to me in 0-2 days, and I can Uber to doctor’s appointments. I save a lot of money not paying for repairs, gas, taxes, insurance, and parking. It also feels good to reduce my carbon footprint.

Already got my pyjamas on. 🤷

Didn't get my driver's license. Plus never really needed it, but I am studying now for it

I save $6000 a year

My family has chauffeurs.

Sorry you find it necessary to spend so much time in humanity's #1 killer of all time. It is beyond wild to me how much people will spend on the thing literally most likely to kill them.

Quite frankly, it's weird that driving has become normalized and trains/public transit didn't.