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What the fuck? People in their early 20's who can't drive? Really? Your friends suck.

Is this a new thing? I am not that old but when my friends and I hit driving age we were like flies to shit on getting our licenses. Do kids just sit a home and porn and tweet now instead of leaving the house?
 
Doppel said:
What the fuck? People in their early 20's who can't drive? Really? Your friends suck.

Is this a new thing? I am not that old but when my friends and I hit driving age we were like flies to shit on getting our licenses. Do kids just sit a home and porn and tweet now instead of leaving the house?
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Depending on things like where you live and how poor you are, lots of reasons why you wouldn't have a car.
 
Doppel said:
What the fuck? People in their early 20's who can't drive? Really? Your friends suck.

Is this a new thing? I am not that old but when my friends and I hit driving age we were like flies to shit on getting our licenses. Do kids just sit a home and porn and tweet now instead of leaving the house?
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Welcome to the new era of the entitlement society.


When we were growing up it was shameful to not have a license, shameful to be on welfare, shameful to get government stipends.

Nowadays kids brag about who is the biggest leech. It's something that they're proud of.
 
Red Storm said:
Depending on things like where you live and how poor you are, lots of reasons why you wouldn't have a car.
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a car, sure.
A license? No.
I know poor people who still manage to get it, or get a job and are able to pay for it.
I'm sure some people can't afford it at all but they're not the average guy. I'm in university and professional education/apprenticeships/deadbeat parking school were a separate track in higher secondary school so maybe my statistics are biased.
All the males I know got or started training to get a license before they were 20 (minimum age is 18). If you live in the low-lying urban areas a car is absolutely not necessary here.
 
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Odd you have to be 18 now for license. Got mine at 16, permit at 15 and back then it was no big deal to drive on dad's lap at 6. There was no real problems there compared to anything else, just stupid political crap changing for the sake of more control.
 
Notice my location, in the US it's still 16 AFAIK.
I would make it possible to drive with a >23 years old by your side from 16 instead of making it possible only from when you're 18 (it's what you can do with the practice permit to learn to drive before the exam), but I wouldn't lower the age to 16. Public transport is good enough here and if they live in a badly served valley they can always get a 50cc motorbike/scooter. The US has all those weird suburbs and are car-dependent so I think it's okay that they can drive from the age of 16.
 
Murloc said:
Notice my location, in the US it's still 16 AFAIK.
I would make it possible to drive with a >23 years old by your side from 16 instead of making it possible only from when you're 18 (it's what you can do with the practice permit to learn to drive before the exam), but I wouldn't lower the age to 16. Public transport is good enough here and if they live in a badly served valley they can always get a 50cc motorbike/scooter. The US has all those weird suburbs and are car-dependent so I think it's okay that they can drive from the age of 16.
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Good point as mopeds are now cool, they were not at all when i was growing up. Public transport really varies but in my area if you are not directly and literally in town, you had quite a walk to get to one and often a few block walk when dropped off to get where you want. Plus the station is prone to teenage fights and trouble makers and the summer, the bus is full of jerks, so i can see public transport being a put off for some people.
 
xanis said:
Seems crazy to me too, but apparently it's not uncommon:
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/american-teens-are-waiting-longer-drive-685842
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I think, and I base this mostly on just being ornery, that it's because teenagers these days are weak pussies. It's their parents' fault for helicoptering over them so much, ensuring they are scared of every shadow, and kept on a strict regimen of mommy knows best. And as long as mom and dad are so scared of letting their kid out of the nest and they have no problem driving a 21 year old around like a 14 year old to his first school dance, the kids have no motivation to learn to do anything on their own.
 
One day i was going for Trip I don't have drive. I contact a travel Agencies they Send me their i can Solve it easily. If you contact Any Travel agines they provide Services..
 
Doppel said:
What the fuck? People in their early 20's who can't drive? Really? Your friends suck.

Is this a new thing? I am not that old but when my friends and I hit driving age we were like flies to shit on getting our licenses. Do kids just sit a home and porn and tweet now instead of leaving the house?
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Well Car and Insurance alone is cost quite a lot. In this economy it makes sense how a lot of people don't have one.
 
Both of you are childish. Him for being a whiny bitch about you not driving. You for even thinking about driving everyone but him. So you're either a little bitch too or a girl. And what is the problem with driving a group of people? It's just driving, if they are distracting you in the car, tell them to shut the fuck up or they can get off.
 
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