[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Not now but mostly did... Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:43:46 In Reply to: Would you live without a car if you could?, No Snaab, Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:11:19 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

...before kids. Getting to kids activities without a car is too inefficient even living in a city. At least if one is busy. I never owned a car before my first full time job after grad school, and even then, we waited until we had savings to buy one outright, so I rode my bike or took the bus for about a year... and work was not near home! Bike was faster than bus. We got the car (our first saab actually) primarily to be able to get out of the city and did not use it for commuting for another year or 2.

If you can bike most places, it is way more healthy. Free exercise. Tougher in winter but not impossible.

I remember buying a relatively high end mountain bike in university, and colleagues teased me - "you could buy a car for that much money"... yeah, but a car costs way more in the long run! I still have the bike actually!

If you want a car to go further afield, the downside is the wear and tear associated with it sitting for long periods of time. Maybe rentals are best in that scenario.

We could not do that now with kids in activities (even though our kids were great bikers from a very young age - kids commuting places can be slow and/or dangerous). Actually, now we are at a point where we need 2 cars pretty much all the time.

If you can do it, go for it!

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• Would you live without a car if you could?, No Snaab, Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:11:19
  • Did it for a while..., PGAero , Thu, 26 Mar 2015 14:15:18
    • Great post! Thanks! n/m, Noel, Thu, 26 Mar 2015 19:22:58
  • Re: Would you live without a car if you could?, Justin VanAbrahams , Tue, 24 Mar 2015 13:36:21
  • Depends, DE , Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:44:37
  • Re: Would you live without a car if you could?, Craig, Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:02:25
    • We had friends in DC who did for a couple of years., Cary, Tue, 24 Mar 2015 18:10:51
  • Absolutely not..., EGD , Tue, 24 Mar 2015 07:30:40
  • A bigger question, No Snaab, Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:23:12
    • "The Human Scale", Snowmobile , Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:05:33
    • That's a better question, Noel, Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:59:50
      • Re: That's a better question, vvack0matic , Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:28:23
  • Not where we live, or are likely to live, Noel, Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:26:52
  • Re: Would you live without a car if you could?, BobS, Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:58:44
  • Not now but mostly did..., Snowmobile , Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:43:46 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Not good for me., saabsince 93b , Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:30:58
  • Our kids almost do, MI-Roger , Mon, 23 Mar 2015 16:21:09

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