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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Car culture is depressing.  We are rich because we have only ever purchased one car, it was paid off in one year, it's 14+ years old, cost us 13K, and it has fewer than 90K miles on it.  [b]We take the bus, walk or metro most places. [/b] Spending 50K a year every few years (not to mention the insurance for an expensive car and fuel) is killing most Americans and then don't even know it.  [/quote]

You realize not everyone lives in walkable areas and especially close to metro, right?  We live in a relatively walkable area served by buses, but if using metro/buses (have to take a bus to the metro) it takes 1.5 hours to go somewhere where drive is only 15-20min.  We have friends/family who live in more car dependent places, so we have to drive to visit them.  We like to go on trips out of town and even travel 100s of miles to vacation destinations vs. flying.  We have kids and pets and often drive kid's friends.  We used to live in the city where we rarely used a car and it wasn't important.  I know exactly what you are talking about.  But once you start using your car a lot you start seeing its limitations - too small, can't take all the kids with us in our car, so that means another parent has to drive, which means that this kid may not come if parent is busy, not comfortable enough on long trips, doesn't have enough space for luggage if traveling with pets, etc, etc.  Then a need to have a second car.. and you start looking for something you never considered in your life and always frowned upon (the dreaded huge SUV or a minivan  :lol: ). [/quote]

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