Living Large on the Highway to Hell

Well it's official, I am working on a new contract project. Before this, I was working in a downtown Cleveland Office on the 6th floor. This office was located about 8 minutes from my home, and allowed me to get up at 7:15, shower and shave, and be out the door by 7:40. Park 12 blocks away and never once was I late.

As of today, I am now working a new project on the East Side of Cleveland. For those of you who don't know Cleveland, the freeway system here sucks massive donkey cock! The West side of Cleveland has three freeways that run East/West, while the East side has only 2...neither of which are anywhere near the city. Basically the East side has access to the freeways only in the suburbs. What this means is that I have to travel 20 miles to my new location, but it takes nearly an hour because of traffic. I would consider selling a testicle for a decent subway system in this city. This of course is interesting because it was mentioned on the radio that Cleveland is not very public transportation friendly. I lived in several different areas in this country and this is the first state I have ever lived in where I have had to own a car.

I've never really enjoyed owning a car. Car payments and insurance are so expensive. If you could live without your car, and could get anywhere you needed on public tranport, would you? Why or why not?