Mary Wood wrote:
>
> I got rid of my car for purely financial reasons and the
> benefits turned out to be way more than that (freedom from
> a huge material possession, patronizing the local businesses
> instead of always traveling to shop/eat, fitness, the
> psychological buzz of knowing I got from A to B under
> my own power...).
We still have our car. She sits in the garage, except for the
weekly/fortnightly grocery shop (awkward taking the packages
home by tram), going to the nearby shopping centre which
doesn't have public transport from where *I* am to it, and
(best of all) trips to the mountains/forest/bushland.
It's useful enough to have it that we keep it, but it's used
only where shanks' pony and public transport won't take us.
Bit of a best-of-both-worlds situation.
Jenn V.
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