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I posted a while back about how practicing driving was tiring to me in a way few activities are. I'm happy to report that I now have my license and a car. Even though I live in the city so parking is less convenient, just feeling of being able to go anywhere without having to check public transport is very freeing.
The reason I only bothered so late in life is that I have been living in the city for all my adult life so it was never a necessity, and my province imposes taking expensive classes (around a 1000$) for one year before you're able to get your license, so the cost and delay killed my motivation to get it for recreational purposes. But now I'm thinking to move out of the city so having a license is a prerequisite.
It's still tiring and stressful to me in the kind of road environment I have practiced less in (highways, on-ramps, service roads) but busy city roads are getting to be second nature now.
It does get much easier with practice. I started a zipcar membership this year after having not really driven much since I was 17 and time on the road seems to make the most difference to my subjective feeling of how hard the driving was.
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It gets easier as you go. I remember when I was learning how to drive, the first time I merged from an on-ramp was super stressful. And that wasn't even a highway, that was a city road where traffic was going 35-40 mph! But now after years of practice, it's second nature to me. Keep it up, brother!
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