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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cost.

But cost, when living in cities, actually means a lot of money is saved in daily parking! Not everyone lives in houses with free resident parking, and not everyone lives in buildings with affordable garages. [/quote]

This is one reason we DO have a car in DC though -- in most parts of the city, parking is pretty cheap. Even when we lived in a big building with expensive parking, we were able to get a residential parking permit pretty low cost, and it wasn't that hard to find a spot. When you live in an area long enough, you learn where the spots are and when to find them, so it's not a big deal. Especially if, like us, you don't use the car to commute, just for errands, excursions outside the city, when you have gear you need to transport, etc.

I have previously lived in NYC and San Francisco and it never even occurred to me to own a car either place. And in San Francisco, public transportation isn't always that great and there were definitely times when a car would have been incredibly useful. But there was no residential street parking in my neighborhood and a parking spot in a private garage was like an extra $600 a month on top of already high rents. And then many places you go in the city, the cost of parking was also very high. It was cheaper to just uber everywhere. But that gets expensive too. This is item #34 on the list of 72 Reasons I Moved Out of the Bay Area.[/quote]

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