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i guess its totally about where you live and your life styles.. cause i am with spiff, i just couldnt do without a car. i have never even been to a city where i have thought that i wouldnt need a car.

but, on the other hand, i have never been to NY, or montreal, or boston, etc.. i know its different, but i still think i would want my truck!!

bigjohn

When I met my wife to be she was 34, lived in Chicago and had never owned a car either. Like you, she didn;t need one for the city. It was just a big pain in the rear-end to find parking, insurance etc. The 3-5 times a year she needed one to go out of town for the weekend or week, she'd rent (way cheaper).

I since dragged her up to Canada, we have kids and now She couldn't imagine us not having a vehicle each.

By he way, not being a big city kind of guy, to my surprise I loved visiting Chicago. Great old architecture, Wrigley Field and lots of great little blues bars.

Paul

north chicago is one of the most beautiful cities i have seen in north america

south chicago is a 3rd world country

I like Chicago. Very nice......... Funny side note. I was on the Miracle Mile (I think that's what it's called) or something like that, anyway it's a highend shopping street and J-Lo walked out of a store we were walking into. Her and about a half dozen body guards! True story! Made me laugh at the amount of people she surrounded herself with.

Ravi, I have spent a fair bit of time in Montreal and your right, you don't need a car. People get around faster there by walking! As for career advice, I'm with chess, go Goverment.

I'm with Big John and Spiff. In PHX, you NEED a car. I never plan on living in NY, Boston, or anyother place that doesn't need a car. A place like that is too crowded for me. PHX is bad enough as it is.

I've got to say, I would never keep a car in NY either. But regardless, I'd get my license. Not being able to drive a car is quite different from not having one. That said, I've got a car in Boston, and it's not a big deal. Keeping a car in Philadelphia isn't so bad either. As for NY, I wouldn't keep one in Manhattan, but there's areas in Brooklyn and such where it wouldn't be so bad to rely on street parking.

And it's not getting around IN the city that you keep the car for though, it's getting OUT entirely. (Which, I don't know about you folks, but I need to do every now and then.)

You are vague at what your current position is, can you elaborate?

Find a graphic arts company in the area and work there as sysadmin / doing some of the graphics. Artistic people, generally flexible hours (although if something craps out at 7 AM you're probably gonna have to fix it), evolves into visiting & working with customers etc...

Just a thought.

Alternative is some kind of Natural Resources gov job that combines computer stuff with being outside a lot.

Get your drivers license though, just don't get a car until you need it. Any job that doesn't involve growing into a cubicle is going to end up needing a license at some point.

Mike,

i'm vague on my current position because my current position is vague.

i do sys admin, network admin, translation, training, presentations, marketing flyers, data entry, but most of it just helping out, not being the boss or running my own things. it's just boring 9-5 type stuff that doesn't mean anything. know what i mean?

thanks for all the replies
i applied to a job as a sleep technician today. the gov't website had nothing for me. i'd also really like to learn how to fix a/'v stuff in my own time. i'll look into that later.

take it easy everyone... tomorrow's thursday

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