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> housing a car seems rather wasteful Not if you live anywhere with a significant amount of snow in the winter... Especially if the local municipal authorities
by sfRattan 9y ago
> housing a car seems rather wasteful
Not if you live anywhere with a significant amount of snow in the winter... Especially if the local municipal authorities combat that snow on the roads with absurd amounts of salt.
- emj 9y agoWinter is no problem for me without car, and we have snow most of the winter. A car is a choice you make, not somethings you have to have.
- zero_intp 9y agoThis is an urban dwellers fantasy.
- cujo 9y agoHow is it a fantasy? If anything, I find it easier to get around in the winter, living in a city. Less traffic on the roads make cycling more pleasant (yes, I cycle in all levels of snow), and walking through town is peaceful and quiet(er) vs summer excursions. I should say, I have a car, but we use it for leaving town, not <1 mile trips within it.
- sfRattan 9y agoYour post is a non sequitur. I said nothing about whether a car is a choice or a necessity. That would depend on where you live also, but for different reasons. I only said that it is not wasteful to house a car under the following circumstances: in the winter, where there is a lot of snow, and where the local municipality dumps salt on the roads throughout the winter (which gathers on surface of the car, including exposed components beneath).
- cujo 9y agoWe have a garage, but we keep our car in the driveway and I say this as a New Englander. Having to keep the garage clean of the shit that falls off the car after a winter excursion is worse than having to brush the snow off after a storm, in my experience.
- sfRattan 9y agoHaving lived in New England, I wouldn't keep the car in a garage there, but my comment is about salt, not snow. Having also lived in Wisconsin, where the government uses literally mountains of salt each winter on the roads, I'll absolutely keep a car in the garage rather than near the street where large machines kick up salt as they dump it onto the roads. Enough collects just driving in the winter as is.