I would be at the mercy of the public transport system. Is that a problem? Its a huge one for me! Mostly when I go out its for 3 things.
1. Shopping. I do that every week and get shit loads of stuff in bulk, and fresh oods from the back of the shelves where they hide it to get rid of the shortly to expire stuff at the front. This may be a couple of huge boxes worth of stuff. Say 10 packs of 24 drinks, plus food etc. This goes in my van easily. Not so on a bus. Even if a bus went to my home, and the supermarket which it doesent. And even if the too small disabled parking slot was free, and it turned up close enough to a ramp to actually get on or off. Plus its expensive, and full of the type of people I go out of my way to avoid.
2. To go out in an evening. Well the "last" bus home may have no access, no space as theres already a user in that place, and that unreliability means I could be stranded. And it means waiting around near midnight with all the undesirables that are now filling our country with knoves, druggies, drunks all over the place. So thank you but not if theres any alternative. (there is).
3. I go out to GET stuff, bbq gas bottles, for e.g that again cant go by bus. Or train. If these things actually went anywhere near the places I want to go to. Or when I wanted to go. For e.g my model plane flying hobby is at an out of town farmers air strip. How can I get all my gear, fuel, planes, etc on a bus? Especially when the nearest bus stop is around 5 miles away. It takes me an hour or so to load up the right things to go flying. I often do this and load the van the night before. Including ileostomy equipment and means of emptying it, food, drinks, medication, as well as all my gear. You cant do any of that on a train or bus. I crash on occasion. So need my quadcopter too to spot it and mark GPS coordinates and then drive a freind to a spot nearby to clim a fence and collect the wrekage and engine/RC gear etc. Will a bus do that?
Buses or trains are OK if only transporting someone to work in some office job. In "normal hours" if you dont mind waiting a lot, getting riped off, sitting in a deseased seat that some old person has leaked on, or fighting your way through shopping baskets and scooters to get to the disabled spot. If the ramp works, if they park close enough, if you want to be mugged while listening to some scrotums music. Not for me. What pisses me off even more is that the rest of us are forced into subsidising dirtyunreliable public transport as it cannot pay its way even at extortionate prices.
Its all just not useful, safe, clean or reliable enough to be practical. And stupidly expensive! Even though its all subsidised by normal working people that have cars.
So what would I do?
1. Suffer that shit.
2. Learn to drive and get a vehicle.
3. Get a GF that can drive...
And then get a vehicle. Its way cheaper anyway. Maybe not the GF part. Thos can work out very costly.
