I'm curious to know what other peoples experiences have been.
I currently don't have access to a car right now. My parents share a car between them and have enough arguments without me wanting to use it as well. I have to get the train to work which is expensive enough and I don't feel I can justify buying a car for my free time in addition to this.
I am finding building a social life in my home town impossible. My immediate local area is just families and elderly people who prefer to keep to themselves. Two weeks ago I tried joining a "local social club for 18-30s" in the hope that by getting involved I would make friends. However when they emailed me a list of whats going on in the next year, despite being referred to as "local" about 90% you needed a car to get to them. About 50% were nearly an hours drive away.
Public transport is crap in my area. There are only two good bus services that run throughout the day, neither of those were helpful. Most buses stop running in the late afternoon which is no good for going to evening socials.
Does anyone else have this problem? or maybe cant drive due to medical conditions? How do you manage to go out and make friends without driving? or do you have to try and live in busy cities with more young people and public transport?
I don't fancy cycling on a busy duel carriageway in the dark.
I currently don't have access to a car right now. My parents share a car between them and have enough arguments without me wanting to use it as well. I have to get the train to work which is expensive enough and I don't feel I can justify buying a car for my free time in addition to this.
I am finding building a social life in my home town impossible. My immediate local area is just families and elderly people who prefer to keep to themselves. Two weeks ago I tried joining a "local social club for 18-30s" in the hope that by getting involved I would make friends. However when they emailed me a list of whats going on in the next year, despite being referred to as "local" about 90% you needed a car to get to them. About 50% were nearly an hours drive away.
Public transport is crap in my area. There are only two good bus services that run throughout the day, neither of those were helpful. Most buses stop running in the late afternoon which is no good for going to evening socials.
Does anyone else have this problem? or maybe cant drive due to medical conditions? How do you manage to go out and make friends without driving? or do you have to try and live in busy cities with more young people and public transport?
I don't fancy cycling on a busy duel carriageway in the dark.