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To: see clearly now who wrote (186207)	5/5/2006 12:05:19 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

"yes seven years living in a Beach town walking everywhere we need to go.." You are living my dream arni.

To: see clearly now who wrote (186207)	5/5/2006 2:59:36 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

yes seven years living in a Beach town walking everywhere we need to go..its actually a luxury not owning a car!!! and I still practice my craft as well. How much of the economy there is based upon the tourist or Ex-Pat industry?? Also, I believe a lot of people in New York don't own cars.. And quite a few in the DC area here don't own them either. What has happened is that real estate prices in many of these places has driven out the service industry and state workers who aren't making enough to live within the very city (or in the case of the towns inside the DC "beltway") that they work in.. So they commute. My father lives out west.. He's a semi-retired construction contractor/painter.. In the state in which he lives, he often would have to travel 90 miles or more to his various job sites. And he has to have to have a truck to carry his building materials. As for me? Hey.. I'm currently a stock trader working out of my rented apartment. I can "work" practically anywhere I have a reliable internet connection. So I don't need to drive. And I have bars and restaurants nearby so I have the option of either walking, or taking the metro. But I think you and I are kind of the exception Arnold. The US is a very big country.. We're not Europe, where masses of people live in very close proximity to one another and thus, justify the cost of building mass transit. Btw, we may have talk offline.. I'm toying with the idea of moving down to Central America for a year or so, renting a villa and spending my spare time practicing my Spanish and Scuba diving.. Hawk