I realized this very quickly when I moved to the city. No longer had to worry about parking, gas, insurance, how to get home when i'm tired or drunk. It's pretty great.
this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
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Having experienced both sides of the coin, living in a city came with other downsides. My bike was stolen twice, my backpack once, my basement was broken into, I didn't know my neighbors, my car was broken into and I didn't have any space for any kind of hobby. I even got into SOTA because I couldn't even install a long wire antenna anywhere and the HF (and actual audio) noise levels were off the charts. Living in the boonies now with a bunch of great neighbors, I own a few hectares of forest, I'm happy to pay some money for mobility in exchange for all that.
happy to pay some money for mobility in exchange for all that.
Most of the costs are probably externalized and not paid for by you
Also good neighbors vs bad neighbors isn't intrinsic to city vs country. You could easily have a neighbor out there that shoots guns unsafely , or feeds bears, or whatever. I had a whole DND crew here in the city that we could walk to each other's places.
But this is kind of getting off the topic of cars aren't the freedom people say they are.
This is kind of a me-thing, but I also never liked how you're tied to your car, if you took it anywhere. You can't walk through the shopping street and then just take the bus home from where you are. No no, now you gotta walk back all the way to where you parked.
in some places you can* it just means you have to come back without the car to bring it back within a certain amount of time that is rarely stated.
Upvoted even though the DMV is not a company.