Nothing fancy. In the Bay Area it’s lots of people’s choice:
Rail (BART) usually won’t take you the last mile or two.
Car ownership is expensive (just having somewhere to park is either expensive or your car is likely to get broken into), plus many people never learned to drive, and parking when you go places is a pain.
The buses are awful.
Uber/Lyft aren’t that expensive in this area, or weren’t when pooling with other random people.
People are too lazy to cycle. :P (also bikes getting stolen all the time)
Nothing fancy. In the Bay Area it’s lots of people’s choice:
Rail (BART) usually won’t take you the last mile or two.
Car ownership is expensive (just having somewhere to park is either expensive or your car is likely to get broken into), plus many people never learned to drive, and parking when you go places is a pain.
The buses are awful.
Uber/Lyft aren’t that expensive in this area, or weren’t when pooling with other random people.
People are too lazy to cycle. :P (also bikes getting stolen all the time)
I think I underestimated how much of the Rationalist community was in the bay area. That fact alone resolves most of my confusion, thank you.