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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 14 y.o. can't wait to drive. Her friends feel the same way. (She also has a passport- what a weird thing to mention PP!)[/quote]

Where I live close to downtown Bethesda, with buses and metro, most teens we know are international, with one or more passports, and they tend not to drive, since there's adequate public transport.
We're from Paris, friends are German, Turks, Russian, Korean, Japanese, etc, and they all know the apartment/public transport life of large capitals, despite living in close-in SFHs here. Culturally, none of us think of learning to drive as a rite of passage of high school. It's a life skill, certainly, but my friends and I learned to drive in college. My husband and I passed our test at 19. My cousin who lives in Paris didn't get a license until her 30s. Conversely my other cousin who lives in the French countryside probably drove on her father's property before she was legally allowed!

It's all a matter of culture and public transport availability.

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