For how much will you sacrifice having a car?

[MegaVovaN]

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How much would you need to be paid yearly to live without your own car?
You would have to use public transportation, use bicycle/motorcycle, taxis, ask people to drive you somewhere, and walk.
NOTE: You cannot rent a car for use on a daily basis, but you can rent one for fun or purpose, like a moving truck or to go off-roading in the mountains.

Perhaps if number is low enough, and you have possibility, you can ditch your car and the money you save would be your extra cash!

 

[KillerCharlie]

How am I supposed to go hiking in the mountains if I can't drive there?

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
How am I supposed to go hiking in the mountains if I can't drive there?

Edited for you - you can rent for recreational or utility purposes (Rent a Jeep to go off-roading or U-haul truck to move).

So you can rent a car to get to mountains and back, not to use as your daily driver.

 

[ChaoZ]

Been going without for 22 years and counting.

 

[pulse8]

I would need about $3,000 extra a month to not use my car.

 

[compnovice]

A free limo service... Thats it!

 

[FoBoT]

can't be done, there is no "public transportation" in BFE

 

[jlee]

There's no public transportation here, and no taxis in the immediate locality...it'd have to be a lot, and I'd have to live right next to work.

 

[MegaVovaN]

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Been going without for 22 years and counting.

Same. But 19 years.

Originally posted by: pulse8
I would need about $3,000 extra a month to not use my car.

This number is batshit insane, you are better off sticking to your car!

Originally posted by: compnovice
A free limo service... Thats it!

Might be even more than batshit insane number above...

 

[amdhunter]

I live in NYC and can get anywhere I go using public transportation. I have no need for a vehicle. (but I enjoy owning one.)

I'd do it for an extra $1k a month or so.

 

[xanis]

I'd do it for anything... I live in the city, so having a car is pointless for me.

 

[Brainonska511]

I go to school in Chicago so have no use for a car - I walk everywhere or take a bus/train if the walk is longer than 20 minutes.

At home, I wouldn't be able to go anywhere without borrowing my mom's or dad's car - the suburbs of LI are too sprawled to get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time by walking and public transit isn't a viable option (unless only traveling to NYC via the LIRR).

 

[ponyo]

I would need to be paid minimum $25k a month for my inconvenience.

 

[Jawo]

Well it would be cheaper for having a car for my activities. I live a few miles from work, but I could walk/bike/etc to get to work. I have always lived in the suburbs, where a car is necessary.

 

[Kelemvor]

Would have to pay me my current salary. No public transportation near where I live. Taxi's would be insanely couter productive. I'd walk or bike to work if it was close enough but that woudl get old fast in the middle of winter (WI).

Now if I lived in New York or some place like that it'd be a very different answer.

 

[woodie1]

There is no public transportation here and I've never seen anything remotely resembling a taxi.

 

[Rogodin2]

I would need $12000 for a Motorcycle.

Rogo

 

[nakedfrog]

$5k a month would probably be good.

 

[OdiN]

Impossible to do. Could ride a motorcycle most of the year, but not in winter.

 

[Sluggo]

Originally posted by: Naustica
I would need to be paid minimum $25k a month for my inconvenience.

Dont forget pain & suffering.

 

[Zenmervolt]

You can take my car when you pry my cold, dead, rotting, body out of the driver's seat.

ZV

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: MegaVovaN

Originally posted by: ChaoZ
Been going without for 22 years and counting.

Same. But 19 years.

Originally posted by: pulse8
I would need about $3,000 extra a month to not use my car.

This number is batshit insane, you are better off sticking to your car!

Originally posted by: compnovice
A free limo service... Thats it!

Might be even more than batshit insane number above...

Are you asking how much money I would need someone to give me to give up my car? Or how little I would need to make to give up my car?

If it's the former, then I stand by my first statement. I love my car and I hate public transportation. I would need to be covered for taxis and other forms of transportation in addition to money for the inconvenience of not having my own car.

If you're asking how little I would need to make in order to get rid of my car and start using public transportation, then it would have to be a REALLY low number. Like $12k a year.

 

[Raduque]

Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
You can take my car when you pry my cold, dead, rotting, body out of the driver's seat.

ZV

And you'll have to pry yourself out from under my 4x4's wheels.

 

[Cabages]

Nothing. I drive my motorcycle, and I kinda plan on driving it in the snowy winter. When you consider the cost of insurance, gas, and parking for a car at my college campus, its just not worth it.

Its gonna be fucking cold, and ill probably have to walk some days, but I should be fine.

 

[dennilfloss]

I've lived without a car since 1989.