nathanrutledge
Joined: 01 May 2008
Location: Marakesh
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 Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:37 am Post subject: |
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| Tallgesse wrote: |
Modernist: That suits me just fine. I have no problem walking and I'd probably enjoy it....Well...I'm sure my eternal optomism will diminish with the Korean winter or the yellow dust.... But ehh...Adventure! Right?...RIGHT?!
Really really starting to rethink my determination with PS, but not just because of the possibility of being in a rural area. I'm starting to become a little more serious about where I want to be in Korea. I have two cities in paticular I think I'd really enjoy. So it might be worth it for me to start considering the research and ground work that goes into a Hagwon job as an inevitability. So far though the consesus is no one is having to drive...At least in this thread. |
Seoul and Busan, amirite? 
I wouldn't throw the license away just yet.
Sure, public transit is great. Except when it's not.
For example, as modernist pointed out, one way is fine, coming back it's a crap shoot. Everyone on this board can tell you of a situation like that. Living near a subway sounds great, right? Well, you could live near line 8 - it's not the most frequent of lines, and it really goes nowhere useful. Or you could live just south of Byeongjeom, the end of half the cars on line 1, so you're just outside the reach of a train every 5 minutes and instead are waiting for 12-15 minutes - frequently when you just want to take a subway to the train station to catch a national train instead! Maybe you want to hang out with friends late at night. Subway stops running and then you're spending 20-30k won on a taxi ride back home.
My point is, there are a lot of LITTLE things that you may or may not have considered, and a lot of things that are particular to where you will be located and to how good you are at figuring out the system. Learning how to use all your options effectively is helpful, but still, frequently the most useful thing is a car/motorcycle/scooter. Even if it's just to go from your place to the nearest station. You could walk it in 30, bus it in 10 - but the bus only comes every 15 minutes - or motorcycle/scooter it in 5.
I love the freedom of not paying for gas/insurance/maintenance on a car. But I love the freedom that a personal vehicle affords. If you spend any appreciable amount of time in Korea, I bet you'll feel at LEAST a twinge of desire to have some personal transportation again.
Just my two cents. |
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