I walk, ride my bike, or drive. I hate the necessity of my car. I do actually need it, tho.

Walking and biking are great. I highly recommend trying one out and there are adult classes if you'd like help learning how to ride and operate a bicycle. A good, used bike with a bike rack can do wonders carrying things around. As a bonus they're cheap to maintain and safe to work on, completely unlike wrenching underneath a heavy car.

Depending on your situation, you may want to consider a moped. They're generally easy to get licensed for, often don't require insurance, and costs about the same as a good e-bike. They require the same skills as riding a bike (knowing the road laws, understanding how to stop effectively, counter-leaning, etc). The bonus is you'll be able to get up to speed on frontage and other roads that may not be safe to ride a pedal bike on (e.g. roads without any shoulder). Of course you can always do both, like starting with a pedal bike to get a feeling of how to ride a two-wheeled device.

I drive a small car. Sometimes I ride my bicycle or use public buses. Taxis on occasion.

I bike almost everywhere within 15km of me. Outside of that, public transport and occasionally car.

I live in a metro area with transit and bike lanes and I like to walk. My preference generally is walk, then bike, then transit.

For one thing, I just do it less than someone with the wealth and privilege to operate a private vehicle. A lot of trips can just be done without, without any hardship at all. But clearly you've already done that.

I live in Munich.

I bike to work. It is only 14 kilometers (about 9 miles).

If the road is to icy to cope with studded tyres, I take the fast commuter train... it is a tad slower, because bikes are often more efficient.

BTW I have doing that since the last 15 years and the last five jobs, in five towns or cities. That may shock you, but I am 58, and never had a car.

To go to places farther away, I use the train. We have a decent train system here (though it's not as good as Japan's or Switzerland's - these countries lack bribe money from the car industry.)

I use the train for travel and vacation. I have been in a large part of Europe by train, including Greece. For example, in the last years, me and my partner traveled to Scotland, Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia, and to Denmark - by night train.

BTW it also saves a ton of money. Cars are fucking expensive. In the last ten years, I spent about 3000 € on bikes (I have two, a normal trecking bike and a recumbent one), and about 1200 € on professional maintenance (I repair and clean most stuff myself, but I let look a bike mechanic for it every year, for safety and because it saves time and unplanned repairs). So, my costs are about 420 € per year.

I walk, bike, and take busses. I have always walked and biked. The taking busses had to wait until I moved to Chicago, mostly, though I did take a few even in South Dakota.

Right now, by ebike. In the past I have walked, ridden a regular bike or taken the bus. I do about 100 kilometers a week on my ebike, maybe 5 on my regular bike for errands within town, if I don't just walk, and also occasionally use the bus or train.

Rural or urban, I have always prioritized living somewhere where I can easily get to where I need to be, by using either public or active transport. I will also happily use digital alternatives like online grocery shopping etc. when it makes sense to. I grew up somewhere super rural (for Denmark) and even did part of my high school online, because doing it offline would have required commuting 3-4 hours by bus or 1,5 by car in total, each and every day. Right now I live in a small Danish town with about 10k inhabitants, with busses and trains, and close enough to the countryside that I was able to find a place to keep our two ponies within biking distance.

I'm in my early thirties and don't even have a driver's license.

I live in a small city in England.

Mainly, I walk. When I can go by bike path, I cycle. About once a week, I drive somewhere.

At some point, I'll sell the car.

Im lucky to live in NYC so I use the subway, for other parts of this country I reccomend an ebike or even an escooter depending on your needs

Most of us drive cars to get around. This community is more a resentment of the fact we HAVE to rely on cars (depending on where you live).

In my neck of the woods public transport is a joke, and the urban sprawl means living in the city is only for the wealthy so unfortunately, I do have to rely on a car, but I hate that and I'd like to see that changed. That's why I'm part of this community.

You have to be deliberate about where you live. If you don't want to be car dependent, you have to move somewhere that isn't car dependent or you're gonna have a Bad Time™.

I grew up in a car-dependent suburban shithole called Langley, and moved to Vancouver at the earliest opportunity where I could commute via transit, scooter, or bike. Every time I moved after that (7 different cities so far) it's been to places where I can safely walk, cycle, and/or take transit because not being car-dependent was a high priority for me.

I should also point out that this decision, while resulting in higher rent & mortgages than if I'd chosen suburban life, has meant I've not spent the roughly $10k annually to maintain a car, which meant that I could afford a to buy a good-sized home in a bike-friendly city. We expect to pay off the mortgage this year.

Car-free really is what it says on the tin: freedom.

I‘m in a city in Europe and I don’t own a car. I commute by bike. It’s around 11 km from home and it takes me around 40 minutes.

I don’t care if it rains or snows. I always carry a set of waterproof pants and raincoat in my bike pack; helmet keeps my head mostly dry. At work I have a complete spare set of clothes which I almost never actually use.

In winter it gets to a few degrees Celsius below zero but I never had any problems with temperature. The exercise keeps me warm.

In some rare occasions (this winter for example) it snows a lot and at some point the bike lanes become unusable. Then I have to take the public transport.

My bike was expensive. It has all the bells and whistles: hydraulic disk brakes, lights with dynamo, hub gear, belt drive, luggage rack. You can probably get a cheaper one and you don’t really need all those treats.

But I had very little problems over the years and had do almost zero maintenance. I also always carry a minimal set of tools in a pouch attached to the chassis, in case I have to patch a tyre.

The exercise and freedom of biking makes me arrive to places happy and full of energy. I usually listen to audiobooks, podcasts or music on the way so it’s fun and I usually look forward to it.

Walk, transit, bike, ebike. Not in that order, but I was deliberate about where I live, so I can get groceries or go out to do stuff without driving.

Personally I get around by ebike or car. My work is nearly 15kms away, so walking isn't feasible but it's a great distance for ebike . And public transport isn't an option. I bike a good chunk of the time, but occasionally have to pick up stuff for my job and most weeks I visit my parents, which are over 60kms away and regularly need help now that they're getting older. So I drive at least once a week and don't think there's a realistic way around it with my current job.

If your local area is conducive to bikes, that's a great option. Really, though, sometimes driving is the only option. I don't think anyone's really advocating for ditching cars everywhere, but rather, promoting walkable cities and bike infrastructure and less of a reliance on cars where it's not (or shouldn't be) actually necessary.

Bicycling, walking. Sometimes bus/train.

Usually I do:

Walking: ≤1 km, occassionally up to 5 km.
Bicycling: 1-15 km*
Bus: 5-25 km
Train: ≥25-1,000 km (if it takes more than 4 hours total, I prefer a night train).

* You can take a bike on the train here, usually a foldable one. I've never done it, but you could then take the train range plus 5 km - foldables aren't handy for loong distances. Great for within the city, though. Alternatively, you park a bike near the station, and at the end stop, rent a bike from the station.

I don't usually use a ferry for larger distances, but if it's for the night, I love it.

I only fly if the distance is further than 1,000 km.

Deliberately lived car free for 4 yeaes here in Australia, choose to live somewhere with better public transport and walking distance to shopping/services. Had a large shopping centre with doctors, dentist, chemist, groceries and a bazillion speciality shops across the road. Walking, PT, an e-scooter and bicycle were all we needed. I worked from home, my parter used her e-scooter for her 4km round trip to work. Busses really suck, they're what cities use when thy have run out of ideas, we used the light and heavy rail often.

Fuck cars :)

Personally I really enjoy walking, think nothing of walking 3 miles / 5km or so to get somewhere and back, further sometimes, it's not a waste of time to me, it's the time where I do my best thinking. For this a good backpack is a good idea for shopping. I am fortunate to live somewhere where everything I need is within that radius and there are decent buses and trains for further trips so I've never had to drive, in some places a car is essential though, unfortunately, there's nothing I can say to help there, other than to move but that's not always possible either.

I live in a city so it's walk > bike > bus > subway > train > taxi, and in rare cases rent a car.

Bikes and train

For most local trips (up to 5 km), I will either walk or bike as my default option. For longer local trips (up to 50 km), I use the public transit we have in my city, which is world-class. A third option I use from time to time for local trips is taxis, but this is a very rare occurrence. Finally, for longer-distance trips, I take the train.

In rare circumstances, I will rent a car, but this is an almost never-occurrence for me.

Your ability to do the same will be highly dependent on what kind of infrastructure is available where you live. A large part of the message in this community is pointing out the need for this type of infrastructure, such that more people can enjoy living life with less cars for transportation.

By foot and by bike.

Preferably a train, then bus, then I drive a car. I at least text the group of people who live nearby if anyone wants a ride.

My average day is walking and cycling, sometimes the bus. If I need to travel outside of the city, I prefer trains.

Live in a city, in the UK, so just having good public transit links. (though sometimes inconsistent)

I live in NYC. I live here in large part because I don't need a car to live here.

I walk for most daily needs. There's also abundant bus and subway options. I would bike more, but one bad accident has me scared to ride with traffic again)

Maybe housing is more expensive, but sometimes you get what you pay for.

I'm so grateful that I rarely need any means of transportation except for my pair of legs. When I have to go to the city center I take the train

Go for a bike, if you can afford it try an E-Bike out.

This really just comes down to choosing where you live and at the same time writing your MP once in a while requesting better funding for good permanent infrastructure.

This could include asking for larger wider sidewalks, dedicated bicycle infrastructure like multi use trails, bikepaths and bikelanes, or asking for the city to allow more medium density into neighborhoods so that transit becomes more visible in the long run. You can even advocate for the addition of local shops to be able to open in residential neighborhoods.

Living in a "modern" American style suburb generally means the need of a car as shops and pharmacies are generally "outside" of the suburb. Walking in these places also generally is restricted to along the same street you need to drive down with no "short cuts" or trails in between homes. So walking 30min vs a 5min drive generally the car will wins out.

There are places in North America that are more walkable then others, look for more dense neighborhoods with no driveways and local shops right within the neighborhoods. I would also recommend looking at the youtube channel "NotJustBikes" this can give you ideas in some of the stuff you can start looking at from a infrastructure standpoint to show you well designed places for people and not just cars.

And I'd not forget making places that look like this is possible, it just requires a shift in perspective to see one is "car centric"

As others have said, walking, cycling, public transport.