Living in the same city as Adrian, I very much agree with all of his points. Cars are expensive to operate, park, and maintain here, meanwhile we have 3 carshar

Living in the same city as Adrian, I very much agree with all of his points. Cars are expensive to operate, park, and maintain here, meanwhile we have 3 carshare options that are way more pleasant than owning a car. For excursions outside the city, I've decided to rent a car for every situation that I need to, and then consider a car purchase if the math works out better. So far, even after having rented a car 5 times this year, I haven't surpassed just the cost of insurance for the year, or the tax, or the annual maintenance cost, and I've increased my time spent at parks, in the mountains, and elsewhere. So far there's been one exception to this, which is super early morning and multi-day hikes that I can't get to without a rented car. That's it. Likewise, I'm visiting the prairies where I'm from, and spent an hour today raking away all that leaf falling and dog poop action the yards have been getting. I do enjoy long distance drives, so my partner and I rented a car for a month and split the cost. At about $400 each not including gas, it's in the range of the same car plus insurance monthly, but we don't pay for what we're not using.