expresswrittenconsent said:
But my point is it sounds like you still have a car per adult in your home. So you didnt move downtown and go from 2 cars to zero cars like if you had moved to NYC.
There's no subway, there's no way to get (we're all Aggies here so it's unlikely UT events are important) easily to campus for a football or basketball game or out to the suburbs to see friends in new Braunfels or see one of our fine minor league sporting events in round rock or make it to concerts out at the racetrack in BFE without your own car (or repeatedly using a car service).
I do think the downtown experience has come a long way (very quickly) and the constant addition of more high cost downtown condos means it will likely continue to improve. The amount of telecommuting/work from home means more and more people can "choose" to live downtown without having to drive way up 183 to an office each day.
Mass transit seems unlikely to ever happen, though.
Your first sentence seems like you're replying to me, but the rest of your post is a little different so I'm not sure. We were talking about it being too hot to walk and then we went straight to needing a car to get to Round Rock. Those seem like two separate points to me.
At any rate, of course I still have a car. My family lives in Dripping and I still make trips to the coast to see old friends, so yes I still need to drive. With regards to the walkability of downtown, I still have everything I need when it comes to everyday life. I'd never compare it to NYC, and the point about still owning a car seems like moving the goalposts a bit. I wouldn't recommend selling a vehicle, but like I said that's a separate topic altogether.
I'd love to have a subway here. If we had one that was similar to NYC in any way at all, my entire plan might change. But we don't and never will, so I enjoy living downtown and recommend it to anyone who's considering it.