Comment Re:The short answer is no. (Score 2) 314
In most other places, notably japan unless you have the money to pay for private parking when you go to work you'll live the life of the 2hr rush, and be packed in, and leave your car at home. But everything you more than likely need is in walking or biking distance, and when it isn't you can get just about everything sent to your home.
Hardly anyone drives to work in Tokyo. Not because they leave their car at home, but because most people don't have or need a car.
In my apartment building there is no car park. But there is a bicycle park. This is typical for central Tokyo. People ride their bikes everywhere. Guess what the obesity rate is like?
This is an extremely pleasant way to live. There are three supermarkets and dozens of restaurants and bars within a ten minute walk of where I live. I can get anywhere in central Tokyo within 30 minutes by bicycle. Work is about 20 minutes away. There is no "2hr rush", whatever that is.
I used to live in a typical American style city with a 1+ hour commute by car each way in heavy traffic. Never again. Not only is it ecological vandalism, but it is a waste of the most precious resource you have: time.