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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Car-less and family don’t really go hand in hand around here. We don’t have the infrastructure. This isn’t NYC[/quote]

-1 Not true. We are a car-less family near Clarendon. Sure, we get a Zipcar now and then or Uber but you don't have to have a car here when you have kids.[/quote]

How old are your kids?[/quote]
Different poster, but we live in Clarendon without a car too.  My kids are 12, 10, and 8.[/quote]

So do your kids do any extracurriculars, camps, or lessons?  Camp was what finally broke us into getting a second car.

Or do you just Uber/zip car a lot?[/quote]
My kids do camp at the y, downtown, ice skating/hockey, or the camps through the county.  We haven’t had an issue (yet), other than typical issues with having multiple kids who have different interests.
They play soccer and softball/baseball.  They also swim year round.  No issues so far getting them to anything, though the older one carpools to most of his stuff, but I think that’s typical of older kids from big families.[/quote]

So how do your three kids get to the Y, the camps throughout the county, their swim. softball and baseball practices?

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We walk.  We live within a mile of most things they are signed up for, and we take the train/bus when we can’t walk.  Lots of people get by without a car.  [/quote]

People who rely on carpools aren’t getting by without cars. [/quote]
[b]My older one has carpools because his activities often conflict with his siblings.[/b]  Since he’s older, he is the one who I trust to get himself home and let himself in when he gets back.  I don’t trust his eight year older sister enough to do that, so his sibling gets first dibs on parents coming with her to events.  Lots of parents with more than two kids have this issue.
[b]I don’t rely on other people to drive around my kids. [/b] [/quote]

Your older one carpools? So he has his own car and drives his share of the time?  Or you mean you  just rely/cross-your-fingers that his friends' parents will take pity and drive him and you all never reciprocate? You can't carpool and [i]not[/i] rely on other people to drive around your kids.   :roll: [/quote]
You don’t know me, you don’t know my family.  I took his team mates to practices for years at oak grove, Quincy, w-l, tj, asfs, key, rocky run, long branch.  Walking.  His friends parents were more than happy to have me do it because they didn’t have to come home early.
Nobody pities my family, my eldest has had other parents take him to a total of two out of ten games this fall.  
This has nothing to do with boundaries.  I know some of you here can’t imagine lifestyles different than your own, but there are people who survive with multiple kids in parts of the county without a car.  [/quote]

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