Exactly. What's infuriating about these all or nothing articles is the exclusion of "car lite" approaches. Over time and kind of slowly, my wife and I realize

Exactly. What's infuriating about these all or nothing articles is the exclusion of "car lite" approaches. Over time and kind of slowly, my wife and I realized we really only needed one car. When the market moved around to make selling one of them way way too attractive, we did so (it was an older Porsche, and the market for those went UTTERLY NUTS -- I had it for nearly 20 years and sold it for about 85% what I paid for it). That was really fine until she took a different job that was no longer public-transit friendly (ironically, it's a job working for the city). I think most couples would've sighed and bought a second car, but we really, really didn't want to -- so we bought a small motorcycle instead. While not suitable for the freeways, provides JUST ENOUGH supplemental mobility that the idea of a second car seems absurd now (especially given the price; the bike was $4800 and gets 80mpg). (We DID think about ebikes, but they cost almost as much without providing nearly the utility.)