I mean, an ebike + light rail is enough to explore a city and it’s surroundings, but I can think of a few places I’ve visited in my life that would be basically inaccessible without a car.
…or a very, very long roundtrip on train, I suppose. For like two of them.
I think most people are ok with cars in rural settings but cars don’t work very well in urban areas.
If you didn’t own a car you could still rent one to go out camping or something. I don’t understand why everyone needs to own a 23MPG offroad trail destroyer stegosaurus to maybe go camping twice a year.
There definitely have been, and continue to be, some great experiences in my life that would have been impossible without a car.
But they happen so infrequently that owning a car myself is completely nonsensical from a cost perspective.
Much better to spend a couple hundred bucks a year renting/borrowing a car the 2-3 times I need one, than $10k a year on payments/gas/insurance/parking just so it can take up valuable urban land to sit unused 99% of its life.
I mean, an ebike + light rail is enough to explore a city and it’s surroundings, but I can think of a few places I’ve visited in my life that would be basically inaccessible without a car.
…or a very, very long roundtrip on train, I suppose. For like two of them.
Still, shouldn’t need a car in an urban area.
I think most people are ok with cars in rural settings but cars don’t work very well in urban areas.
If you didn’t own a car you could still rent one to go out camping or something. I don’t understand why everyone needs to own a 23MPG offroad trail destroyer stegosaurus to maybe go camping twice a year.
Renting is exactly what we did :D Can’t very well bring a whole ass car with you on a plane. Nor should you want to.
There definitely have been, and continue to be, some great experiences in my life that would have been impossible without a car.
But they happen so infrequently that owning a car myself is completely nonsensical from a cost perspective.
Much better to spend a couple hundred bucks a year renting/borrowing a car the 2-3 times I need one, than $10k a year on payments/gas/insurance/parking just so it can take up valuable urban land to sit unused 99% of its life.
Yeah. The only mode of transportation that I own is an ebike. And I could probably cut the “e” part out without too much fuss.
Good panier bags make all the difference though.