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Car owners in NY are devastated!
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It’s hard to believe this is real. Who would try a car for a trip like that? It would be so inconvenient
I don't it's real? But there are definitely some annoying yuppies over there in that area.
You underestimate how car-brained Americans are. If a destination is more than a few blocks away, most people will hop in their car without a second thought.
More than a few blocks? I've seen people who need to take the car a quarter of a mile and even less than that. Granted, I'm talking about rural Americans where they're used to living on rural highways applying the same logic to the small towns that support their homes, but you get the idea