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Great post! Some more good ones: - You don't have to pay for gas. - You don't have to pay car registration fees every other year. - Traffic jams afford you
by vlad 16y ago
Great post!
Some more good ones:
- You don't have to pay for gas.
- You don't have to pay car registration fees every other year.
- Traffic jams afford you opportunities to walk across the street, rather than to sit and wait.
- You don't have to pay interest on car payments for a financed or leased car.
- You don't have to pay $100-$200/mo to park your car off the street.
- You don't have to move your street-parked car every so often to avoid violating one of many types of ordinances, such as for street sweeping, snow plows, etc.
- You don't have to "pay" for depreciation even when you don't drive your car, or especially when you do put mileage on it.
- You don't have to maintain your monthly transportation pass for those months when you're not in town/not using it, while you do with insurance.
- In many cities, you can scale up/down your transportation costs, between $0 (walk everywhere in the summer) to about $50 (maximum) per month, as you wish. Hard to do that with car insurance.
- You don't have to take time to run to the meter every so often.
- You don't have to remember to keep a supply of quarters in your car.
- You can change plans without worrying about what to do with your car, or how to get back to it.
- You don't have to ride alone, which is what most drivers do. You can take a bus and interact with passengers.
- You can read a book, surf the internet, watch videos, or sleep in public transportation, which you can't as a driver.
- Although you might get to a gym faster by car, you can jog to the gym and be warmed-up for classes, weight lifting, sports, etc, by the time you step inside.
- Your feet get used to running and walking on harder surfaces, rather than just a treadmill.