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[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] h14h@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] GTG3000@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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.