Culture Shock: Not Needing a Car in Madrid, Spain
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- I just now today realized I don't need a car!
In the USA I felt a bit like an outcast because my friends had cars and I didn't. Living in Spain has made me see they're not as necessary as I once thought!
This is dependant on the type of lifestyle you have of course, but personally speaking, my commute to and from everywhere I would ever want to go is within walking distance and I work remotely so it's not necessary.
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Madrid is a wonderful city - the metro system is extensive and just sooooo easy to use. Very walkable burg too.
And cheap too
Its the best 😊😊
Isn't this the same in a lot / most cities in Europe? And probably even most cities outside North America? As in the rest of the world they didn't decide to bulldoze all the old buildings away to make room for huge streets and parking lots.
Cars will make/keep you poor. The worst investment possible.
Literally a hole to throw money in. Cops will fine you, you will have to waste time parking, people will try to rob or damage your car, mechanics will rob you as well, you have to do the ITV mandatorily...it's not worth it.
For us over 65's public transport in Madrid is totally free. ( the photo-card you need costs €6 )
I went to Buenos Aires, Argentina last year and the buses can get you EVERYWHERE! There's usually a few different bus routes that can get you to a lot of the places.
But the best thing was that if I missed the bus, I'd see two more coming up the street behind it. This is UNHEARD of where I'm from in the Boston area
Depends on where you live, usually Americans and foreign Europeans live in a downtown Madrid bubble. If you live a bit out things change.
Most Spanish cities have great public transport, like Valencia for example. Sure if you prefer to live in the outskirts, you need a car
I really don't understand how the US doesn't have at least a high speed train network between main cities. As technologically advanced as it is in space, Silicon Valley, AI, etc; the rest of the world has surpassed the US in such a transport that cuts pollution by getting cars out of the roads, the waste of time left in airport security, etc How amazing will be a Boston, NY, Washington high speed line at 300km/h like the ones in Spain. Or Frisco, Las Vegas, LA, San Diego. Or Dallas, Houston, etc This makes money for sure. What are you waiting for?
Well that's reasonable because in the States streets are huge if you compare to cities in Europe which everything is packed tightly.
That is actually irrelevant. She is referring to local transport, so the size of the streets is irrelevant. Actually, with bigger streets it should be easier to have better public transport, as you can easily fit many bus and tram lines. And by the way, Madrid is huge, it has a metropolitan area of more than 7 million people.
IN THE HOLE OF EUROPE YOU DON'T NEED A CAR. !!!!
But over there, how expensive is the public transit compared to owning a car? In Vancouver, the public transport is excellent but it's freakin expensive so might as well own a car because insurance + gas works out to be the same as buying a monthly pass for the local transit.
Around 55 the whole month and works on all transports (bus, metro etc..) or 20€ if you are under 25, currently lowered to 22 and 8 until next year.
In the Netherlands, yearly subscriptions range from 20 to 120 bucks (give or take) per month, though that doesn't include various discounts for things like off-peak travel. Those are mostly if you travel ALOT (like... a lot a lot) since you can also get a transit debit card which, depending on if you get the anonymous one or the personalized one, also includes discounts and the like (you can also put your subscription onto the card). There are also hourly and day passes which allow unlimited travel within the time frame. Or you can just use your bank card. The card/subs also works across all forms of transit (bus, train, tram, metro, bike) as well as allowing access to storage and long term parking in major stations/hubs.
As for cost... it's best to think of things not per-ride but over a longer period as any given ride (car or public transit) will vary significantly. Say 120 bucks a month which gets you unlimited travel, first class seats, and a bunch of other stuff. That's is 1440 a year. If you travel twice per day (commute in, commute out) every day, it comes out less than 2 bucks per ride.
If you have a car.... the cheapest I've gotten my insurance was 600 bucks per 6 months or 1200 per year. Cheapest card i got was about 15000 bucks; if I owned that car for the average length of time of 6 years, that's 2500 bucks per year for the car. So already we're up to 3700 dollars per year. So 5 dollars per ride, twice a day. Not counting gas, not counting maintenance, not counting accidents, not counting the cost of parking.
Now transit cost could go up but even if it's double the cost per ride, you're effectively still paying the same as owning a car. In a walkable city like Madrid or Amsterdam, you also don't really need a car for daily needs like groceries whereas in many American cities, you need a car for that. And if your taking more expensive trips, with the unlimited transit subscription, you're not paying any more whereas with a car, the costs keep going up. This isn't to say cars are bad; there are use cases and needs for them. The point is more that transit is not terrible; it's not even a bad option and in fact can be just as good.
One quesiton that comes up is "Well, what if I need to move big things?" or "What if I want to take a road trip??" Well... that's what moving vans are for and renting a car. The money saved by having great transit can be spent on the occasional situations where you DO want a specialized vehicle.
Less than 200€ access for a year to everything, only the insurace of the car doubles that
Atm in Madrid if you're younger than 26 you just have to pay 8€ a month to use public transit
@@geminix365 200 a year?
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Why is everything so shocking for you?
USA and Japan are their own worlds meanwhile central/southern America, Europe and Canada/Australia/NewZealand share many things it seems
Man stfu we look nothing like the US. This is a proper country, dude.
Videos are great,Just for a change though could we see the view in front of you ❤🎉
Yes and average wage is less than 2k, i still prefer USA
So? Free education, free health care, more security, healthier life, cheaper shopping, more free time. The US is a third world country with money