Living without a car might be reason to move to Detroit. Who said irony was dead?

MSN taps a Treehugger.com scribe to look at non-auto commuting options such as Zipcar, car-sharing and cycling. He turns to Detroit to find a GM employee who moved from Troy to Detroit to shorten her bike commute.

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That is exactly what Michelle Knepel did. Michelle works in the finance department at General Motors in Detroit. She got the job out of college and promptly moved to Troy. “I spent hours a day commuting and I was so unhappy that all my life was just working and commuting.” She moved to Ferndale, a little closer, but it was still killing her. Finally, she decided to move right into Detroit with the specific aim of eliminating her commute. She still owns the car but only uses it on the weekend. It is her bike that takes her through the streets of motor city to GM every morning.

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