How would you manage if you lost your driving licence tomorrow?

Sorry, I can't remember. It was a few years ago. DVLA website or insurer might be able to help.

I would manage, I live close to many different shops and a train station. For work and collecting dc from the schools I would buy electric bikes and scooter etc.
I absolutely adore my car! I would struggle losing that freedom esp as I was a late driver anyway.

Same for my mum - in fact she was better and had fewer symptoms if she was driving! Being a passenger made her vertigo worse! But at no stage did GP say not to drive... and it was 5 months before she felt totally better after her worst attack!

Same thing happened to me in 2013. Woke up with vertigo. GP did a home visit, told me it was temporary- gave me meds for it (travel sickness tablets). Obv didnt drive until a couple weeks later when it had gone completely. Noone ever mentioned informing the DVLA and it didnt occur to me. Has never happened since thankfully, and it's been 11 years. I also did the epley manoeuvre which seemed to help.

I live in a major city - work is just over 2 miles away, there’s 2 supermarkets within 1 mile and another a bit further away where there’s also a big retail park. Plus small local shops including a chemist within walking distance. The gym is half a mile away.
there’s 6 bus routes pass the end of my road, 2 of which take you to the main hospital and 4 get me to work and the city centre. I can be at a mainline train station in 20minutes and to the airport takes about an hour by public transport (compared to 20-30min driving).

I can't see moving a rural business into a town would work some how!

How do you just 'move to a city'? How would you secure social housing or an affordable private rental on a low income? It's hardly a simple thing!

Unless you've got a different disability which prevents walking far (in which case you have my sympathies) you'd manage. That might mean moving to a city or adjusting work, or not having the social life you'd exactly like, but you'd manage. There really isn't any other option.

I'd be fine at this stage. It'd be inconvenient for sure, but I'd manage.

I could get the bus to and from work and get door to door by bus in half an hour (or walk...its 45 mins each way to walk it)

It'd be annoying when taking the kids to activities, but eldest could make her own way and DS activities generally in walking distance.

Kids are high school and college aged so would be fine really. If they were younger and my working hours were different, It'd be a nightmare to manage.

I’m disabled and cannot walk far so I’d be screwed. I wouldn’t be able to get my child to school, go to my drs or hospital appointments. I literally wouldn’t be able to leave my flat unless I had someone else drive me

Lost my licence when dvla wrongly applied a new EU rule that wasn't due to come into affect for another 9 months, had to fight dvla by phoning daily, and hiring a driving lawyer. Got it back. Meantime access to work provided a cab to work. Hated it, hated having my independence removed.

You can do it on yourself. As myself and others have done.. that’s the whole point of it - it can work. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a recognised thing to do.

I would have to rely on DH, as he would have to rely on me if the situation were reversed.

You wouldn't die, you total drama queen. I've got the obvious neurological condition which prevents driving and I'm still alive, despite handing over my licence.

Absolutely no difference - I have one but don't drive, usually walk / get a bus or train

I absolutely love driving, love, love the freedom. However, if it really was only 6 months, I'd be absolutely fine.

Live 10 minutes from the tube, 20 minutes from town, always take the tube to centre if London. Dh can drive.

My elderly parents live an hour away but trains are still doable.

Would be good for me to walk more.

Yup same here! Dr said maybe it was an ear infection that had gone away 🤦🏼‍♀️ gave me anti dizziness and sickness tablets
Same as you, googled and sorted it myself

That would be unsafe for me to get to work if it was dark or other poor driving conditions.

Really, are you so obtuse you can't see that a bike is neither possible for everyone, nor possible for every journey, nor practical or enjoyable for many journeys.
Who wants to arrive at a wedding having cycled 15miles to get there in all their finery ?

I'd have to give up work (essential car user), sell my house and move.

We have a half-hourly bus service into town, but it doesn't start until 9.15 and the last one home is around 5.45. I live at the top of a big hill, and have arthritis, so there's no way I could walk the 3 miles into town, or to the station, and back. Because it's a small town with a very limited range of shops, I often have to travel to a bigger town even for quite basic things, like underwear or skincare, so two buses or bus and train by public transport.

I also have to see clients in a predominantly rural county and appointments can be 50 miles away. Some of my tribunals are in the next county but one. The 70 mile train journey is 90 minutes minimum, not including getting to/from the station, because all the trains stop at every tiny station in between (usually a bit over an hour by car). I only work 6 hours max per day, so the train ride alone would be half my day gone.

We mainly use or bikes for leisure so not in the main traffic going to the supermarket which I wouldn't want to do, rain or shine

Fine. We don't have a car. A lot of people don't.
We bike, walk and use public transportation.

Now and then rents a car for a day out - but no harm done if not possible.