> Perhaps the car payment, but consider: fuel, depreciation cost (almost always overlooked), insurance, parking, and maintenance. Well, depreciation is irrelev

> Perhaps the car payment, but consider: fuel, depreciation cost (almost always overlooked), insurance, parking, and maintenance. Well, depreciation is irrelevant if I consider the entire car payment a sunk cost. Anything I get for selling the car is a bonus. Otherwise yes, there are additional costs. > If you can live without a dedicated car (taxi, Uber, car-share, rentals), it's often a surprisingly affordable option. That is the part that hinges on location and the trade-off between transportation costs and domicile costs. > Humans existed without cars for nearly 200,000 years. Humans existed without cities for about 197,000 of those years, but I'd rather not go back to that.