I’ve been in JC for 12 years without a car. Mostly downtown and in the JSQ area. About 40% of JC does not have a car and in places like JSQ it’s more like 65%.

I had a car when I moved here. It was a pain. I didn’t use it as much as I thought I would. It was expensive to maintain/insure/pay tickets. Not worth it.

Friends have had cars here and they complain about JC all the time. All the complaints are car problems. Traffic is bad, parking sucks, insurance is high, gas is expensive, street sweeping blah blah, bike lanes blah blah blah. If you don’t have a car, you don’t worry or complain about these things all the time.