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Re: [T3] What did people do? (somewhat long)


--- Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org> wrote:

> He pointed out that he can take the bus or subway
> most of the time, take a taxi 
> when he needs to, and rent a car for vacations, all
> for much less money than it 
> would cost him to own, insure, park, maintain, and
> drive a car in that city.  

When I moved to Manhattan, I sold my car for that
reason. Of course, a Subway ride wasn't $2 each way
then. My roommate, however, owned a car. Most of the
time he kept it garaged, quite a number of blocks
away, at a scary parking lot by the Hudson River for
$300 a month. Not a lot for parking I guess, but if
you don't want to pay that, you deal with the hassle
of alternate-side parking where you have to move your
car by a certain time each morning unless you can find
a parking spot on the correct side of the street. 

When I moved just outside of Manhattan and bought my
B**tle, I did that in the dead of winter, up at 6am in
a cold, aircooled VW trying to find a parking spot on
the correct side of the street, when hundreds of other
people were trying to do the same.

It is, indeed, a privilege to have a place to work on
these cars, the space to keep them safe, and to have a
nice open road on which to drive them.


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