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[quote=Anonymous]I think if you live in a very dense city it works, but not just because you can get places easily without a car. It's because dense cities also tend to have good car sharing and rental infrastructure. So when you truly do need a car, you can get one. And there will be times when you need a car with kids, or where it is simply very convenient to have one. Especially once they start making friends and getting invited to random stuff like trampoline birthday parties in the suburbs. Or they join a sports team that has practices in the early morning or meets in places that are not metro accessible. I don't think you have to own a car for this stuff, but you want to be able to rent a car really quickly and easily. But also, all of that is why we have an old car that we barely use and have no intention of selling it. Our condo has a parking spot, and the car is over 10 years old with low mileage. We don't use it a lot, and it costs us very little to maintain (we put gas in it maybe once very two months, get it serviced annually, and our insurance is dirt cheap because it's an old car). But this way we always have a car when we need one, and it's great. We never have to stress about invites to random locations, we can use it for trips to the beach and other nearby vacation spots. It was invaluable during the pandemic.[/quote]
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