I’m not sure how true this article is, it sounds a bit sensational. But as someone who used to live in the uk where car ownership was practically forced on you

I’m not sure how true this article is, it sounds a bit sensational. But as someone who used to live in the uk where car ownership was practically forced on you due to economic reasons and seeing the destruction of public transport such that you should see a trip to the next city akin to taking a flight to another country, fuck em. A car is a huge expense, i won’t lie and say it doesn’t have advantages, like if you have a family, but i’m single, and now i live in a country with an expansive public transport system and i realised, actually, car ownership is just passing on the cost of a public transport system to the general public at a huge cost to themselves. I have a shared car scheme where i can rent a car by the hour, they have stations everywhere and i use it like twice a year to go to ikea. I can’t go out with a car and drink, i have to find parking spaces, i cannot do anything productive while driving a car and i’m of the opinion that anyone who drives to work is on work time while doing it, mostly unpaid. I take frequent taxis, but adding up the cost of all those is nowhere comparable to the cost of a car, sitting idle in a garage that would also cost me extra each month. Car ownership was forced on us.