>Only to wealthy privileged people who can discuss their first-world problems on forums like this. As folks get poorer on the scale the more a car becomes an unavoidable necessity for many.
I'm living on countryside in Eastern Europe and by no metrics I'm anywhere near to being wealthly
You don't have to be wealthly to have privilege of not having to own car, it's often about job.
Majority of people I know needs their cars due to their jobs. Of course part of people I know actually enjoys driving and stuff.
WFH helps with it significantly, but even before I've been commuting by train due to it being cheap and allowing me to e.g read a book, sleep and generally have time for me
For things that are within e.g 10km radius like shops, services, then I tend to use bike (unless its winter ofc)
but I think it's hard to do it pernamently, at some point I think I may need to get one just in case.
In cities it may be easier cuz you can always call Uber/Taxi
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> As folks get poorer on the scale the more a car becomes an unavoidable necessity for many.
Sometimes I believe that car is what actually keeps people poor
When I look at friends they spend significant amount of their salary on car - insurance, fuel, maintenance - it ranges between like 3k PLN to 10k PLN where minimal wage is around 2K
So if you have to pay 4K per year for your car when your year salary is 24K
then shit's no cheap and I think we're optimistic here, but often it allows you to have job, so it's terrible situation.
I'm living on countryside in Eastern Europe and by no metrics I'm anywhere near to being wealthly
You don't have to be wealthly to have privilege of not having to own car, it's often about job.
Majority of people I know needs their cars due to their jobs. Of course part of people I know actually enjoys driving and stuff.
WFH helps with it significantly, but even before I've been commuting by train due to it being cheap and allowing me to e.g read a book, sleep and generally have time for me
For things that are within e.g 10km radius like shops, services, then I tend to use bike (unless its winter ofc)
but I think it's hard to do it pernamently, at some point I think I may need to get one just in case.
In cities it may be easier cuz you can always call Uber/Taxi
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> As folks get poorer on the scale the more a car becomes an unavoidable necessity for many.
Sometimes I believe that car is what actually keeps people poor
When I look at friends they spend significant amount of their salary on car - insurance, fuel, maintenance - it ranges between like 3k PLN to 10k PLN where minimal wage is around 2K
So if you have to pay 4K per year for your car when your year salary is 24K
then shit's no cheap and I think we're optimistic here, but often it allows you to have job, so it's terrible situation.