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[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

It's worth noting that much of that time was during a lockdown and subsequent years involved working from home. Also in the intervening time I bought my wife an EV, which provides most of my transportation.

The gas vehicle is used about once a week to pick up heavy or large things or to take large boxes to the recycling area; plus there are occasions where my wife is out in her EV and I have to go somewhere. During these occasions I am grateful to have my own transportation.

It's true that I don't get much use out of the car, but I live in a fairly rural area. The closest non residential building that I know of is 2-3 miles away and I have limited mobility due to an injury. There's no presence whatsoever of any Uber type services; I don't even know of a taxi industry, though there likely is one. If I didn't have reliable transportation I would be pretty screwed. Even during the week or two between when my Flex broke down and I replaced it, I had to cancel two doctor appointments and miss other things I wanted to do.

I probably would survive if all we had was my wife's car, but I would lose to a lot of convenience and my schedule would definitely get more complicated.

this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2024
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