"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Rod Speed wrote:
I'd expect so. When I were a lad in the '50s, it was far less common
for
women to drive - even if there was a family car, which again wasn't
everyone.

I can think of only a few of the ones I knew at that time that
didnt. None of the mothers of those I knew couldnt, the
few that couldnt were entirely of the generation before that.

Well yes, but you live in a big country like the US with appalling public
transport, and only the company store miles away. So it was a question of
learning how to drive or starve.

In the UK we had shops close by and decent public transport.

London has decent public transport. The rest of the country sucks at
transporting the public.