Europeans of Sup Forums, why don't you have a drivers' license?

Europeans of Sup Forums, why don't you have a drivers' license?

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is it true that i makes you infertile?

I do but i never drive because i live in st*Ckholm for work and parking alone can cost upwards of 100$ a day

they have to spend like 5k to take the test and receive their license or something along those lines

I have, and a car with manual shift, you know you, the kind of shift you people make movies about.

I have one but it costed me like 3500 eur including lessons (which is quite common here).

Ive heard about ppl failing their (((exam))) so often they ended up paying 5k.

The average in the UK is 40 hours of lessons and a test, so near a £1000. The real killer is insurance costs, often the insurance for the first year costs more than your first car is worth.

i do have driver's license and believe me it is infinitely harder to get one in poland than in the US
i drive Golf 4 that my dad gave me when he bought a new car

>be american
>get in car with local sheriff, drive around empty rural roads for 5 minutes
>pick up food at McDonald's
>get driver's license

We don't have state ID cards so even if you don't plan on driving you still apply for a provisional drivers license so you can get served for alcohol.

This really isn't far off from the truth if anyone's wondering

I did this for my first official ID when I was 16, I did not learn to drive until I was 19.

in Poland you need to have at least 30 hours with an instructor to start the exams
my 30h course costed 1400 PLN, and then 3 exam attemps, every one of them 140 PLN
and the insurance is expensive as fuck here too when you are new driver, but there is another option
i have my car registered as a co-owner with my dad who is a driver over 30 years now
i pay only 720 PLN per year now, if i had the car registered on me alone it would be like 2500-3000

Nah, plenty of poor people and teenagers drive a manual here.

Drivers license would cost me between 2000-2500 dollars...
Then I would need to buy a car, pay insurance, the extremely expensive fuel and to hammer in the final nail - I live in Visby. A medieval town on the island of Gotland.
It takes me 10 minutes to ride across the entire town on my bicycle.

If I need to go somewhere on the mainland I just take a bus/taxi/train etc.

I'm lazy and I live near public transportation.

Not like I have any women to impress.

No need for it. The bus is more than enough. Plus I don't have to worry about the license, insurance, parking, accidents, etc. I should look into getting a bike though. Maybe in the future.

Not in my experience. I took a written examination of driving regulation, signals etc. Then demonstrated parallel parking, followed by a quick drive of maybe a quarter mile in the area of the department offices.

I do but it'll get revoked if I don't complete the last phase of the whole process in 2 months.

the way it should be.

ITT: euros pretend they love their buses and bicycles simple because owning a car is too costly there

I drove around a parking lot for five minutes, never even drove on a road during my test.

It costs up to $2500 here, including formal driving instruction, driving lessons, first responders course and exam fees.

it's a good bit of social engineering from their policy makers though, you have to admit

There is no pretending, it really is expensive as fuck to own a car here if you are under the age of 25.

No

Insurance is pretty expensive here too if you are under the age of 25. Mine was about 1K a year.

getting one was the first thing i did when i turned 18

Lived in NYC my whole life. Don't even have a license, but I could easily afford a car. Just don't want one, having a car is more trouble than taking public transportation.

yeah, plenty of women drive automatic here too

$1k is a lot less than £2k.

theguardian.com/money/2017/mar/06/young-drivers-bear-brunt-car-insurance-costs-rise

>be cletus jimbob from anytown alabama, texas usa
>buy a cadillac for $200+tip
>brother-in-law is a deputy marshall ranger sheriff, so don't need to worry about licenses or taxes
>filling the tank is $5+tip
>"heh euros think buses are so great"
>clap to own joke

yeah that's pretty steep. sounds like it is a recent thing and the premiums pretty much doubled.

And i thought spending 100 bucks to take just a road test was a scam

Because my parents never paid for it and I never worked to pay it
I don't need it anyway I never leave my room

Car costs including fuel and insurance would take out about 45% of my income every month.
Fuck that, my electrical bicycle costs a few cents to charge and for longer trips I take the train which is comfy as fuck.

>euros pretend they love their buses
Never ?

License = around $2000 minimum.
Gas prices = around $2 per liter.
Parking in my town =$100 per night.

Yeah, bicycle works just fine.

Why is it so expensive to drive in an underpopulated counry bordering a country with one of the highest oil reserves?

Um excuse you
1. my evaluator was an indian women
2. we drove around empty suburban roads, not rural
3. it was 10 minutes, not 5

Politics probably.

Taxes & environmental politics.

Expense.

In Norways it's even more expensive to drive/own a car and they have all that oil..

the moment the soypower "cars" take over and oil hits low i'll buy a muscle car and desert drive the shit out of everything on earth

bicycles and motorcycles are a great transport, i wish this country wasn't so car based

I walk by foot, fatty.
And if it's too far, then I go by bus. I am a student in a little university town with a population of 75.000 people. I always meet someone I know and have a nice talk.

>Wasting hours of your precious day, time you will never get back simply walking to one place
Maybe things are slower in Europe, but5 I have a million things to do so I can't waste even an hour just walking. It's waste of time.

I do, but gas is expensive and parking is a pain in the ass.
Iirc it can cause erectile dysfunction due to the pressure on the taint, you have to ride for multiple hours a day though, also proper cycling shorts with cushions can protect you.

>he said posting on Sup Forums

I'm busy cheating on a test. it takes time for the app to solve these quadratic equations.

But I do, and I drive every day

>pay about $2300 for my certified yuro manual license
>buy a old used car for around $500
>mfw 6 years later it's still running without any major repairs

>Wasting
If I was American, I would drive a car too, because I was probably fat and also there is nothing interesting to experience in the US.
Here you can enjoy the beautiful architecture of Germany, the landscape, historical bars, student's life, etc. Going for a simple walk is already a great experience. There is so much to discover. Thousands of years of unbeatable German culture. No other nation will ever reach us.

>pay less than €100 for my license
>mfw reading this thread

>Here you can enjoy the beautiful architecture of Germany, the landscape, historical bars,etc
Thats nice but it would get boring after a while. Besides you have better things to do then see the same bar every day for the last 300 years.

Those hours you wasted walking you will never get back and you could had used them for something better. You could had studied, created something or experienced something new.
But instead you wasted them walking. If you live less than a mile from work I wouldn't argue too much but I can't see people walking for an hour to work.

I do. I got it on my 18th birthday. Only faggots don't drive.

I recently moved to a place and got a job that requires me to use public transportation (parking is 20 fucking dollars a day otherwise). I absolutely hate taking the bus and wish I could just drive to work.

>Besides you have better things to do then see the same bar every day for the last 300 years.
There are actually like 300 historical restaurants and bars in my town. And if that's not enough, you can go to the mansion of a Studentenverbindung (student's fraternity), which has a tradition of several hundreds of years too.

>you could had used them for something better
I like to be active, I like to meet friends on my way, I like to observe what is around me.

>experienced something new
I experience something new everyday.

I do, it's basically an id card that I paid well over 2000€ for though since I don't have access to a car and I wouldn't drive anywhere anyways.

this is actually very accurate

tfw when I was 18 I got bullied into getting a license because the norm here is to get it at 16 and I was some sort of alien to people

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Not buses, but trains are much more efficient means of transportation

I do own a car, but don't use it much

If you have a proper bike fit, no. Most people don't though.

I don't have a license either, cars are for fat people. There is no reason to spend your life sitting in traffic when you could be enjoying fresh air and using your body.

agree

Most people here live further from where they work so the commute takes longer even with a car, in other countries some things actually are within walking distance than a strip center

poor parents + functional public transport

I cannot move two legs in opposite direction at sametime for engine starting

>I walk by foot, fatty
>And if it's too far, then I go by bus
See America is spread out a lot, and public transit is shit

>local sheriff

It's literally just some dude. It's even more pathetic than what you described.

how is that "pathetic", retard? why do you need a fucking sheriff in the car

you only need someone accredited to validating driver performance monitoring a test

Fucking really.
Here it's 30 fucking minutes and you gotta drive in a dense city then go on the freeway then have to carry out 2 maneuvers (like parallel parking or reversing along a curve) then go back to the city, then maybe a hill start and then a few technical questions about cars.

I obtained my driver license when I was 16 yo, I actually had to wait till my 17th birthday to be allowed to drive
Cost me 2500€

hahahahahahahahaahhahaahhaahahaha the power of europoor socialism

Not for me. My DMV was next to the city and it was crowded as hell

My license was bit less than 2000€ before gubberment decided to jack the price up for some reasons.
I don't own a car I use my parents one, mainly during nightshift weeks. I pay for the gas for every now and then. Otherwise I use bicycle like today.

My sister paid some private instructor that was notorious for being easy on people, for her driving test. She cried before they even started it, and the instructor passed her. She has totaled like 2 cars and got into like 4 accidents and she’s only 23.

Dog bless the land of the free

No, there are 0 reasons for me to get it

I wouldn't drive too if I had decent cyclepaths
also cyclepath sounds like psychopath, it's fucking weird

>got driver's license
>never drive anywhere

>be hypothetical me
>get driver's license
>make car and car insurance payments
>pay for uni parking permit
>feel obligated to use the car despite living in dorm within walking distance of anything important
or i could just continue to not have a license
>tfw 19 and i still have little reason to get a license

The car of a developed country is not Mario Kart.

yes goym pay shitloads of money on a car and its upkeep and then also on gym subscriptions and supplements even if you have to work over time to do it

but Mario is the driver

This. Im a homebody and i let others drive me whenever possible.

I have since I was 18yo

Why do you hate physical exercise so much?

Why won't you fucking finish the Pan-American Highway you piece of shit? Call your lawmakers right now and tell them I want it finished

I do have a drivers' license. It's just that cars are pointless in cities because we have public transport and bike lanes.

Why is Panamá responsable for that? Colombia is a bigger country. Go tell them to do it.

this. I live on the countryside and so I need a car, because five buses per day don't really give you flexibility.

I live in the second biggest city, I'm a student and I bike everywhere. I never had the money to get a license and I don't need it. Might get one when I'm done studying, but I rather not.

Wew.
License = 10$
Gas prices = 0.8$
Parking = free anywhere outside of Moscow

I have. But I got rid of my car a few months ago.

My country is small i dont need one..

i have my licence since 14 years and driving an Audi A6 tho

>driving a car made after 2000
Disgusting.

I have a driving licence though. And unlike Americans, I actually know how to drive a car because I can operate a manual gearbox.

I got one when I was 17/18. I don't own a car though, they're a waste of money. I can literally just walk everywhere.

>thread about yuros and cars
>ctrl+f "manual"
>only 4 results
I am actually shocked