A drastic move to a car-light life
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- Опубліковано 10 жов 2022
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Yes please, I would love to see your video on house shopping. My family is getting ready to purchase, and we want all the same things you described.
I used to take both of my kids to school on a bike, and I miss those days.
My daughter is 27 now, and I used to take her to school on a tag-along trailer-bike which effectively turns your bike into a tandem.
My son is 18 now, but I used to sit him on a bolt-on seat on my crossbar. We always got through the school-run car-chaos much quicker than the driving people, and we always enjoyed the journey - unlike the car people! 😂
Love the positivity! Bike more, drive less, is such a nice way to spin it up. Thanks again!
I'd encourage people to go walk or bike around a neighborhood, don't take those "transit scores" on real estate sites as definitive. My house is rated by Zillow as 19/100 (minimal transit). Within .8 miles of my house I have dentists, a grocery store, a couple pharmacies, two elementary schools, a middle school, a public bus stop, a coffee shop, parks, a gas station, a couple fast food restaurants, and we can take sidewalks and crosswalks the whole way. The high school is a little further, and so are a passenger train station, a library, and a major interstate pedestrian trail, all fairly easy on bikes (there is a slight climb, before an e-bike I walked my bike for that part).
We don't have safe bike lanes, the bus only runs once an hour, we have things to improve here, but we can get by without a second car.
Great point! I also recommend ignoring the school rankings scorecard on real estate listings…which are not indicative of the culture and community of a school and instead further promote school segregation
Thought-provoking video. Thanks for posting. It would be great if you could show more of the infastructure and other features of your new location that make it bike friendly.
we picked a place where I could walk to the shops and cycle into town if I needed too. Thankfully I only have to drive once every 6 weeks for a hospital appointment for a child in a wheelchair.
There are buses into town and to the railway station if \i want those,a big supermarket 6km away for a larger shop and a bike path running there.
Partner wanted to move out into the countryside but nope. I don't want to need a car to fetch bread!
We moved from Ohio to California in 2015. My car was at the end of it's useful life and so we sold it before we moved. We didn't buy a replacement. I went from a $100 craigslist mountain bike & baby trailer, to a Yuba Boda Boda (with baby seat) and then Tern GSD (which I currently have). Basically upgrading my bikes as my kid outgrew them lol.
We've lived in two cities in the last 7 or 8 years. The one we are currently in has signs all over saying how "bike-friendly" it is. Um...no...this city is awful for cycling (but it's close to my spouse's job). Painted bike lines does not equal bike friendliness. The other city had almost no bike lanes, but it was fabulous for cycling. Most streets were low traffic, and frankly they just didn't require bike lanes to be safe for cycling.
How bike friendly a place is definitely will be taken into consideration the next time we move, but in reality it's just one factor.
Thanks for sharing your journey! What's super fascinating to me is that some of the bike friendly-ness is 1000% dependent on your neighborhood and where you need to go. I work from home, so my priorities are getting the kids to school safely and food/library.
Found your channel through your Bike Here podcast - been binging it whilst I veer between pondering and panicking about which Cargo Bike to get! Really interesting content, glad you’ve found a more bikeable place to live and yes to hearing more about how you conducted your house search with those criteria about distance from workplace, schools etc
The Bike Here podcast is coming back now that I have a space to record. I'm probably going to host on this channel, is that okay or would you prefer the podcast to be separate?
@@BikeShopGirl so long as i don’t miss you posting, happy wherever. Keep up the good work!
It would be great to learn a bit more of the life-project and how it is panning out for your family.
Almost moved to Carrboro. The bike paths through the neighborhoods and amount of dedicated lanes were incredible but ended up moving back home to Richmond... still fighting the good fight for better infrastucture. Congrats on your move!
Richmond is doing amazing things!!
@@BikeShopGirl it really is. It’s been a joy to be in the advocacy front here
What you’re saying about driving is so true!
Hi this is an older video but just wanted to say I enjoyed it :) I’m trying to do the same right now minus the school district issue
Yes, more videos on this topic. I'm trapped by dangerous roads and have to drive everywhere.
Yay! Awesome video, and so happy for y'all. 😀
Yes! Please do that video!
What you said about being in a car sucking - oh I felt that.
My tiny family is moving next year and looking at bike friendly communities. We look at NC because my company is based there, but we are also considering Madison.
Very interested in video. Love to see what life by bike looks like.
Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I hope you will be happy in your new location.
I haven't watched any of your videos for over a year (?) when you were plugging Tern.
I work full time for Tern, and it was the best brand at my shop so I've been plugging tern for a while :)
Great post. Very happy for you and your family and totally agree about the positive and life-affirming results of spending more time on your bike :-)
Yes! Thank you!
Unfortunately it appears you needed to be close to Durham. I'm off the greenway in Raleigh and am able to get to the mall, downtown, art museum, Umstead, and more places. Me and my spouse don't have kids, however if I mapped it out, we would be able to get to schools via neighborhood streets. We only have one car and try to avoid using it as much as possible. We use it mainly for vacation. I'm hoping you enjoy your place/stay in NC.
Raleigh has wonderful greenways, Durham does not have a network. Most the roads outside of the neighborhoods I wouldn’t ride with my kids on board.
I am looking for exactly the same thing. I live in Northern NJ (stone throw from NYC) and although nice to be near a lot, pricing and congestion is way too much. I am looking to move to VA or NC or even TN and am looking to go car light. I have trouble finding that place as you describe that I can get to most locations with just my bike (e-bike and acoustic). We will be empty nesters this time next year and starting to do homework now. Any suggestions for finding locations when you live so far away would be greatly appreciated. Love your videos BTW :)
People for bikes has a list of cities that you could start from. From there, I think there's probably no substitute for taking some weekend trips and seeing what you like and don't like. As far as specific recommendations, I'll submit for your consideration my hometown of Richmond VA - great food scene, great places to ride both road and MTB, car light is easy to do inside the city limits.
I would really recommend to explore as much as you can.
The only reason I knew about this neighborhood is a friend on twitter that kept nudging me. It never would have come up on a list or even local bike advocates didn't put it on my list of neighborhoods to check out.
Come visit Chapel Hill. I would love to take you for a ride!
Are you in Richmond?!
Decisions are definitely easier if you don't have young kids on a separate bike, but it likely still requires being on the ground to get a feel for particular neighborhoods, since everyone has a different comfort level with being in the street. There's safe ways for adults to get around in Durham, but it's not "all ages all experiences" by a longshot.
@@BikeShopGirl the suburbs of Richmond, yes - just can't do city schools with kids. Car-light sort of on hard mode but we make it work
Really liked this video. I would love to hear how you did your research. I’ve tried to use GIS software to find the lowest trafficked roads, but the data is missing for a lot of places.
The layers to the mapping in priority:
Good schools
Avoiding state owned roads running through the neighborhood or near the house
Slow neighborhood streets and/or paths
Ride with GPS heat map
Extra: important places like grocery, coffee shop, library, etc close by. Ideally walking or biking distance
We narrowed it down and then I biked them all
Makes me realize/reminds me - I already have it! So much of this already. Yet we keep two cars. Sometimes I wonder what would happen if we let go of the 2nd one!
Try not driving one for a month during the winter. If you can do it then you’ll be fine!
My wife and I are pretty well anchored at this point in our lives. But I would be interested in this process as it might affect our adult kids, especially our daughter who recently purchased a townhome in Aurora where traffic is insane. (Mississippi & Peoria)
I'd be interested to know more about the neighborhood you moved to. I'm going to be moving either to the research triangle area, or to Richmond and am trying to find bike friendly places.
feel free to email me! arleigh.greenwald@ternbicycles.com
We are looking at possibly moving to the Denver area. If I wanted to live a car-light life there, what city would you recommend checking out? Thanks, David
I'm a big fan of Denver, but not a fan of the winters or lack of green. I'm from the east coast and missed big green trees and grass without watering!
I’m late to this video, but I would love to know how you did your house shopping!
Spreadsheets!
Good schools, then layer on bike friendly streets, bike paths and places I would want to bike/walk to.
Where did you end up moving to? I’m guessin
So worth it if you can afford to do it financially
100%. It also saves that the kids don't have to be in private school and owning a second car is EXPENSIVE!
I can't afford a car or a place to live so I don't know what I am going to do
I'm so sorry to hear this. Stay safe wherever you are
My family beg me to get on disability now I think I can go back to work but to have a job in Louisville ky one needs a car but to have a car one needs a good income and disability is not a good income if you see my videos you can see what I am dilling with