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I would like to see numbers. I can't imagine this is actually any cheaper but it is less flexible.

• avidiax 3y ago
  This will always be situational. I live in Switzerland, pay about CHF6 per commute day for the train, roughly 4 days per week. That's CHF96/mo. A parking spot for a car is >CHF200/mo, on just one end. So even if I bought an econobox, the expenses would probably be CHF500/mo without even driving it. Because of these economics, I just rent if I need to. We have an app here, and while it's not cheap (both an hourly and per-km charge), I would have to use it quite a lot to cost more than even a basic car, and that basic car is itself limited (i.e. it's not a van when I need one). TBF, It's hard to separate the cost of the rental from the perceived value of the activity. Spending CHF30 to go to a further away grocery store seems like a waste, unless you can force yourself to consider the savings from not having a car in the first place. So you tend to talk yourself out of doing things that you would have done if you had the sunk cost of having a car, the same way that a compact car owner might talk themselves out of a long road-trip because of luggage space or comfort.