/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1584922
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Here's the truth. Cars are a massive waste of time and money. The vast majority of us don't need one these days. It's society and businesses that are all too happy to let us go on thinking we do. Unless you commute or specifically make money from your car, e.g. taxi, uber, lyft, goods transport, pizza boy, etc., or you live/work in a rural/underdeveloped area, then you don't need one.

My car insurance for a full year was about $550. Bus rides in my area are $0.25. That's already cheap, but I could get a bus pass, which is $5 and good for 25 trips, which works out to $0.20 a trip. But because I'm poor, I actually get a "half fare" which is $0.10.

If we do some math, we can see what the bus would cost for someone working full time. (($0.20*2 trips)*5 days a week)*52 weeks a year = $104 a year. If you qualify for half fare, it's only $52 a year. From car insurance ALONE, I save about $500 a year. How much do you spend on car insurance every year? Are you sure there isn't anything else you would rather spend that money on?

While this is only for me and my area, unless you're spending $3-4 a day on bus fare, I fail to see how a car could ever possibly be cheaper.

>b-b-but not every place in the world has buses...
Ugh. While objectively true, that's still a weak excuse widely used by lazy people. I grew up in the military and I've lived in many different countries, and nearly all of them had bus routes. Even tiny farming communities in rural Korea had pubic buses and that was 25 years ago. Not bothering to learn the bus routes isn't a good enough reason to pretend you're in an underdeveloped area. Stop being lazy, get on google or open a phonebook, and get a map from the public transportation office in your area. Or you can keep blowing ungodly amounts of money on the upkeep of some terribly designed piece of shit that you will never get your money back on and will breakdown and need to be serviced at least once every couple of years. It's up to you.