Living Without a Car (part: 1/7)

Gas is $4 a gallon. I've already downsized to a Geo Metro. I spend over $500 a month on my car. It's time to do something about it!

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[jalit]

Buy a scooter, almost as cheap to run as a bicycle but a lot quicker and more comfortable, and you can lane filter through traffic :P

[landongendur]

@jalit - Electric scooters out there for $700-1000, but that seems pretty darn expensive. I had a few hiccups with living without a car: In August 2009, I bought a $600 Jeep that lasted me until December (then went car-free again). Just recently I bought a $400 Toyota Tercel for winter 2010.

Going car-free is much easier when it's not -30 here in winter time ;)

[dwnrety1]

lol how do you get a speeding ticket in a geo metro? isnt top speed on this things like 75? lol

[landongendur]

I did 45mph is a 30 zone and 80mph in a 60 zone.

[mrbiggoggles314]

Yeah I think that you better have a job where they love you alot because if you tell your boss you don't have a car anymore where I live they will pretty much fire you on the spot.

[landongendur]

I managed to find a job downtown where it's a easy bike-ride and there's a 17 minute bus ride in the event of rain.

[meloearth]

You are pretty self-confident. You get some idiotic comments and are always very gentle and kind with your replies. Good job - you leave them at a loss about what to say next. LOL ;)

[BarrysWorld]

I like to (jokingly) call it Vagina ...then I follow it up with "What a hole!" :P

[landongendur]

Thanks for the encouragement. The weather has gotten pretty cold, but I'm not deterred so far ;)

[TheFrenesie]

It's a good resolution for the environment. Go for it I encourage you.

[FlowingGeisha]

Gendur is too funny like a name for a night club. Like Bed's Nightclub where there's all beds. Perhaps owning a lazy ass car is good because there's no motion sickness, slamming on the damn break so that I go flying without the seat belt, injuring my damn knee because I hit the damn padded seat in front of me from the damn jamming on the break stop. Bad drivers who honk, cut the fuck in front. Drivers who don't know what the fuck a bus is and how it functions on a schedule.