> "I feel trapped here." Precisely. My wife was rabidly anti-car (living in the northeast) until one summer a friend went out of the country and left their ca

> "I feel trapped here." Precisely. My wife was rabidly anti-car (living in the northeast) until one summer a friend went out of the country and left their car with us. The precise word she used was "free" - we were free to get groceries on the fly, we were free to go out of town. We just had an enormous number of options open up to us, as our travel overhead / travel radius improved so dramatically. It was freeing. I never had to argue with her after that; when we had the chance to acquire a car, we did.