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Three months in Los Angeles without a carIt can be done. Today I got my car back after two months in the shop after a month sitting in my garage unused (when I was too busy to attend to it). [1] But I want to make it clear that good public transit was a big part of my decision where to move to where I live now (Santa Monica), and that my job is fortuitously right across from a bus terminal on the other end of the line. [2] In fact, I had been taking the bus to work for about a month before my car's transmission started to go. Around the same time I had a big project at work that was nearing a deadline, and so I never got around to taking the car in for service till a month later. So for that month and the next two, I took buses (and, in a couple cases, a train) everywhere. Granted, I don't exactly have a vibrant social life, and I have a lot of the stores I need within a few blocks of my apartment. Also, I found that at no point did I have a need to hit anything like a Target [3], which would have been a pain. But the bus was able to get me where I needed to go: doctor's appointments, destinations here and there, and downtown L.A. So, the next time someone tells you it's impossible to live in L.A. without a car, I am proof that it's definitely possible. Still, I'm really happy to finally have the car back. In fact, I was so happy I went to the supermarket and filled up a whole cart. Footnotes:
Tags: bus, car, car_repairs, general_motors, los_angeles, santa_monica, saturn
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