I bike, walk, bus, drive. Generally in order of preference.

I have a medium sized wagon for the family, but we don’t generally use it during the week. Some weekend excursions are done by car , as I live in a place with ok public transit by anglosphere measures, but terrible by European ones.

But in general we bike everywhere. We have a cargo bike for the child which serves 90% of our needs.

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

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.

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.

I had an electric bike and I switched to an electric trike since I am 67 now.

Trains are my primary mode of transportation. In town -> U-Bahn, commute -> S-Bahn, travels -> long lines. I also go by foot or bicycle but this one is currently broken :(. Otherwise bus, and on rare occasions I rent a car.

I live is Stuttgart, Germany.

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.

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

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.

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.

Being European, I had the choice to live in a city that is very friendly to bikes, pedestrians, and has very good public transit. I also deliberately chose an apartment that was so close to my university it’s trivial to go there in the morning, and I have access to a wide transit network if I need to go further.

Honestly, if I lived somewhere car dependent, I think I would just bite the bullet and drive until I can move somewhere better. This is a pretty bad answer but I don’t know what else to say.

I would probably try to get a cheap and reliable electric car to save as much as possible on maintenance costs.

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

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