"walk to a store" lol okay bro doesn't know wtf they're talking about.
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The closest grocery store is 1.5 hour walk. I'm not doing that in a Canadian winter or with hands full of groceries. And no, it's not bikeable 5 months a year.
Also, I've bought four cars in my lifetime. I spent a combined $13,000 on them. My first car was $1400 and I still have it.
where are you buying a drivable car in canada that cheap
In Ontario. It was my first car, so 10 years ago, so not quite the same market as today. It was a '96 Tercel. No AC option, no airbags, no ABS, no cruise control, crank windows, manual locks, manual transmission. Needed brake lines and a windshield.
So it was already like 19 years old when you got it, makes sense that it was pretty low cost.
Yep. Don't need all the bells and whistles. On top of that it was incredibly reliable and fuel efficient since there wasn't much to it.
ehm Canadian winter will make sure the food does not spoil on the way ☺️
Neither will op's corpse until they find it next spring.
Yeah no kidding.
ride a bike in order to automatically don't be fat
That's how it works obviously
They’ve clearly never shopped at Costco. I can’t get out of there without dropping at least $200. Because, you don’t know you need a package of 50 AAA batteries, a gallon of mustard, 300 allergy pills, and a dozen rolls of Christmas wrapping paper until you’re there. Inside Costco that just makes sense.
And a gigantic box of frozen spanakopita, every time
That's our go-to lazy Sunday breakfast.
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It would be so nice to live somewhere I could walk to the store. Or anywhere.
Sounds so... Odd to me.
My entire life I've lived in a very dense city. Everywhere I look are stores, people, traffic. There's never a single moment of silence, not even at night.
I low-key feel jealous to people who live in a quiet place...
The non-American mind cannot conceive of living in a place so vast.
More like living in a place where it can be impossible to cross a short distance on foot when it wouldn't be impossible to add a walking path.
Europe is relatively small but their towns are waaay more compact because they were built before cars came around so most towns are already in favor of walking/biking distances.
But yeah America is huuuge. The drive from Paris to central Switzerland is about 12 and a half hours and it's a total change of scenery. For the US that's just California to Utah. Or Washington DC to Charleston SC.
What the US needs badly is high speed rail from city to city
In, roughly, 12 hours I can get from pennsylvania to florida. DC to Charleston should not take that long.
- I actually looked up my last trip from where I used to live. it was 14 hours and 12 minutes. So a little over 12, but point still stands.
I mean we do need that, but that has nothing to do with the problem. the majority of people don't live in those vast expanses of nothingness. Most of our cities are just as populated as most European cities, we just have shit laws around zoning, single family housing, population density, NIMBYs blocking any change, and people that think public transit is for poor people. They don't travel to other countries and so have no clue how good things could actually be.
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Where in the world can you buy a week's groceries for $50?
If you are extremely frugal everywhere, even the US
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Who's putting $200 of gas in their car per month, what you doing driving the Route 66 on a weekly basis? The shops all of 5 miles away if it's that.
Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.
Wouldn't have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.
If your commute is about an hour each way you're probably spending roughly that much.
I did when I had a really shitty commute for about a year and a half. Crazy thing is it wasn’t even that bad compared to some of my coworkers there.
I never thought about it like that! I did in fact buy the car specifically to go to the grocery store and don't use it for anything else
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