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Your partner doesn't drive, does it bother you?

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  • Torry_Quine
    Torry_Quine Posts: 18,872 Forumite
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    LandyAndy wrote: »
    I haven't read the thread.

    Can't drive? Deal breaker if they say they won't learn.

    How can anyone survive in the modern world (except maybe in London) without being able to drive?

    As others have said, very easily. :p
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  • Buzzybee90
    Buzzybee90 Posts: 1,652 Forumite
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    But for so many people public transport isn't an option so driving is essential. Completely depends where you live.
  • duchy
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    LandyAndy wrote: »
    I haven't read the thread.

    Can't drive? Deal breaker if they say they won't learn.

    How can anyone survive in the modern world (except maybe in London) without being able to drive?


    Same way people survive without a mobile phone glued to their side 24/7 - It's perfectly possible so long as you aren't gullible enough to believe the adverts that say you can't/
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  • duchy
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    edited 19 July 2015 at 9:08PM
    Buzzybee90 wrote: »
    But for so many people public transport isn't an option so driving is essential. Completely depends where you live.

    If people can't drive they usually choose not to live in rural areas with no public transport- for fairly obvious reasons -As we all to a greater or lesser extent choose where we live- your post is a bit "If the moon was made of cheese" in its logic.

    Few people need to drive nearly as much as they claim - often it is just laziness. They are too lazy to walk fifteen minutes to a shop or a bus stop. I'm not talking about people with disabilities - just your common or garden lazy person who "just couldn't live" without a car. No wonder we're a nation with increasing obesity
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  • Buzzybee90
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    duchy wrote: »
    If people can't drive they usually choose not to live in rural areas with no public transport- for fairly obvious reasons -As we all to a greater or lesser extent choose where we live- your post is a bit "If the moon was made of cheese" in its logic.

    But we aren't talking about those people. We are talking about OPs boyfriend.
  • duchy
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    Buzzybee90 wrote: »
    But we aren't talking about those people. We are talking about OPs boyfriend.

    No we are talking about .......
    Buzzybee90 wrote: »
    But for so many people public transport isn't an option so driving is essential. Completely depends where you live.

    Where you are clearly talking about "so many other people" and not the OP's boyfriend !

    Did you forget you'd just posted that ? :)
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  • Buzzybee90
    Buzzybee90 Posts: 1,652 Forumite
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    duchy wrote: »
    No we are talking about .......


    Where you are clearly talking about "so many other people" and not the OP's boyfriend !

    Did you forget you'd just posted that ? :)

    You obviously live somewhere with fantastic links and can't understand any other viewpoint.

    You're welcome to it.
  • missbiggles1
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    Buzzybee90 wrote: »
    But for so many people public transport isn't an option so driving is essential. Completely depends where you live.

    If you don't drive, you choose to live somewhere convenient, with good public transport.
  • Buzzybee90
    Buzzybee90 Posts: 1,652 Forumite
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    If you don't drive, you choose to live somewhere convenient, with good public transport.

    Exactly, but OPs boyfriend hasn't, thus causing the issue.
  • missbiggles1
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    Buzzybee90 wrote: »
    Exactly, but OPs boyfriend hasn't, thus causing the issue.

    We don't know that - all we know is that the OP thinks he can't use public transport to come to her place and he starts work earlier than it runs to where he works.

    When they get their own place, they can choose to live somewhere that's convenient for a non driver.
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