Shamelessly stolen from /r/askreddit.

  • @[email protected]OP
    link
    fedilink
    47 months ago

    Walkable cities are fantastic, I would never commute to my office with my car, I live in the suburbs and take the bus and metro to the office, it is awesome, I lived alone for nine years without needing a car, to be frank, I don’t need a car in my day to day life.

    But I have missed a lot of opportunities by not having a car for the weekends/vacations.

    Opportunities to get new furniture, opportunities to find a castle ruin, opportunities to connect with friends easier, opportunities to go places where I would not have been able to in a resonable timeframe using just public transport and walking.

    It might be selfish, I don’t deny that, but it has done wonders for my mental health.

    I got a car that can fit five, that runs on electricity for most tasks, it was used, so no new car was produced specificly for me.

    I believe it was the least bad car I could have gotten

    • @HenriVolney
      link
      37 months ago

      Eery bit is helping. No need to feel guilty about enjoying life. I hope one day my local council will provide shared cars for those special times when I really need one. They have them in bigger cities but not here.

      • @[email protected]OP
        link
        fedilink
        37 months ago

        I have thought about only keeping my car for a few years so I get more experience and then selling it and getting on the app leasing deal, but so far that is not on the horizon for me, but who knows…