Ulmo
Active Member
True true, but on the other hand, why not? If you're in a good driving situation and comfortable with that good driving situation, who cares how dirty it gets? I'm sure there's some local way they clean cars around there. Perhaps the door man knows a guy. Or, it's just one more bill to go through a touchless car wash or something as part of a vacation out of the city or something, or order up a mobile wash service to come in.I worked in Manhattan before. I would not consider getting a car there. Just too stressful
Because of the weather, you can't even keep your car clean
On the other hand, if the situation isn't good, then I'd agree with you.
Part of my truck driving was coming down 2nd Ave all the way from one end of the island to the other (back when my yard was in the Bronx). I'd put the tip of my fingers on the wheel and shake it slowly spilling into each of my adjacent lanes slowly (at the right frequency to be scary) while coming down the middle lane, and give the occasional honk; this was done to scare away the taxi drivers, by dumping a little into their lanes on the left and right in a scary way. This scared off most of the cab drivers, and the seas would part, and I'd make every green light with no danger of hitting anybody. I was not stressed at all. It was very comforting. If you can't find your comfort spot driving in Manhattan, I would not do it either. I think every single unique commute or driving pattern is different and needs to be assessed on its own. There were plenty of drives that I avoided since they were insane and I'd never do them (mostly congestion, and mostly through bottlenecks at that).
Let me compare to my current commute. I leave for work 80 minutes early every morning since I hate dealing with the crappy crappy crappy crappy crappy crappy crappy drivers that are on the roads later. But, if I do leave early, I enjoy a rather reasonable commute with reasonably low stress level, with almost no crappy drivers, and so little traffic, that I can just go around them if I do see any. (The worst are pickups that intentionally block people behind them by driving beside another car, but like I said, I leave early enough that they can't usually succeed in doing that.) The other thing I do is make sure to have a decent car. In the evening, I know the best times to come back, and only get on the road at those times; if I have to do some errands after work to time shift my commute, I do. And, I only use routes I like. If I think another route is less stressful, I will take it, even if it means I must enjoy god-level beauty and intense fun mountain driving (oh darn!).
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