On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:16:08 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> by not wanting to try to get around London on a daily basis.
> 
> The actual nice thing about cities is they tend to be very easy to get
> around. I've never vacationed in a city that I've taken an automobile.
> The paris and london subways (as well as a few in the USA) are really
> all you need, if you're willing to walk two or three blocks or hop an
> occasional taxi cab to go too far towards the edge.

I have found that on places I've traveled to as well - NYC, London, 
Boston, San Francisco, Barcelona - all have pretty good public transit 
systems, and as a tourist there (or being there for work), I've found 
that I could get around fine without a car for the most part.

But particularly with London, I don't know that I'd want to depend on the 
public transit system for my employment - strikes seem to happen fairly 
often (in particular), enough so that I might be concerned (though I know 
most employers will make allowances for that).

Jim

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