• GTG3000@programming.dev
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    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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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      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.

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        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.