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in addition... you need a real id or a passport to fly. a lot of people have extreme anxiety about flying. those are big hurdles that a train does not have.

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I made an appointment at the DMV, walked in, waited about 10 minutes, answered a few questions, and walked out with a piece of paper saying I'd get the real ID mailed to me, which happened.

As for getting a birth certificate, I googled how to get a birth certificate from XX state, followed the directions, and got a birth certificate in the mail.

"Works for me, WONTFIX"

Spoken like a true software engineer

A better reply would have been presenting an example of the "big hurdles".

Besides, WONTFIX are for problems that are not worth fixing. INVALID are for irreproducible problems.

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