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Originally Posted by JSH
These statements don't compute for me. You say your wife "is not a driver". She physically cannot drive or she just doesn't want to learn to drive? Because I can't see how you can live in a rural area with 1 hour between towns without both adults in the family driving. How does she get groceries, take the kids to school, go to work, etc? How do you go through life in rural American and never learn to drive? Both my parents grew up in rural areas and were driving around the farm at the age of 8 - 10 and legally driving on public roads at 14.
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Let me put it this way. No, she doesn't drive, at least not over 30mph. And no, most of her family doesn't drive nor have a license. Personally I don't need a car in town, the town is too small. It's a 10 minute bike ride to my place of work. I can ride my bike from one far end of town to the other with no problem in about 20 minutes. So having more than one car is not really necessary, except maybe two vehicles with two different purposes, like a little EV for town and a minivan for out-of-town. Generally my wife drives around town in the car or on her bike and I take my bike (The whole town is 25mph or less except the main drag at 30 or 35mph. Only when we need to drive out-of-town do we really need a car.
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Originally Posted by JSH
I can't see piling 8 people into the Avalon because you had family fly in. We had family fly in a few weeks ago and had more people than seats in our cars so we rented a car at the airport. You had 7 other people in your car and none of them had a drivers license?
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Correct. It was my wife's family. They are not from here and the majority don't drive nor have a license.
The airport here has only a couple car rentals, and they are only open 1 hour two days a week. They also are out of most everything. We used to rent minivans and even 12 passenger vans on ocassions.
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Originally Posted by JSH
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