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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][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]

DP.  You are simply trying to be a PIA and obtuse.  There's a difference between people who are constantly living off and taking advantage of others, and the poster you're antagonizing.  We're a 2-car family (because we don't live along a metro line or a transit corridor that provides efficient transportation to the places we need to go on a daily basis).  Our kids still get rides with friends to and from things.  So what?  And we give rides now and then too.  And even if we couldn't because we didn't have a car, we'd "reciprocate" our kids' friends and their parents in other ways.  
It's time for you to lay off.[/quote]

I don't think the poster was trying to be a PIA and obtuse but more pointing out hypocrisy (or maybe virtue signaling?) that some on this board love to spew about their car-free lifestyle.  Sure, there are probably a ton of parents who have cars who take advantage of others because that is just their nature.  But if you are truly living a car-free life, then you had to admit, you probably do need to depend more on others if you want your child to be able to participate in sports or go to sleepovers, or birthday parties, etc.  And there is nothing wrong with that-- everyone carpools and gives kids rides all the time and hopefully the folks without cars do "reciprocate" in other ways.  But in reality, if you are spending that much time walking or waiting on the Metro instead of driving, your spare time and ability to reciprocate will be more limited.  It is the car-free posters' santimonious "don't hate just because we sucessfully live a car-free life even though such success inherently involves more dependence on others" that brings out posts like the one above.

But the real issue is when someone's "car-free" lifestyle becomes a justification or argument about why their child should be entitled to walk to school as the other posters are pointing out.  You choose to live a car-free life, that's great but that does not get to dictate the location of neighborhood schools or access to Extended Day.

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