"walk to a store" lol okay bro doesn't know wtf they're talking about.
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Yeah, nearest store to me is like 30 min walk each way. Nearest Costco is about the same time in the car as the grocery store (5-10 min).
That's a 5 minute bicycle ride then?
Something like that, yeah. Costco is more like 10 min, and I've done runs to both on my bike.
The closest grocery store is 1.5 hour walk. I'm not doing that in a Canadian winter or with hands full of groceries. And no, it's not bikeable 5 months a year.
Also, I've bought four cars in my lifetime. I spent a combined $13,000 on them. My first car was $1400 and I still have it.
I've bought 2 and have spent ~$13k on them. I still have the first after more than 10 years, and have had the second for almost 5. The first car was ~$10k, and it had 60k miles, and I've put on about 100k miles.
Buying used direct from the owner has worked well for me. My parents bought my first car for me for about $1500, though my siblings also drove it. I kept it for about 5 years before buying a replacement.
where are you buying a drivable car in canada that cheap
In Ontario. It was my first car, so 10 years ago, so not quite the same market as today. It was a '96 Tercel. No AC option, no airbags, no ABS, no cruise control, crank windows, manual locks, manual transmission. Needed brake lines and a windshield.
So it was already like 19 years old when you got it, makes sense that it was pretty low cost.
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ehm Canadian winter will make sure the food does not spoil on the way ☺️
Neither will op's corpse until they find it next spring.
Yeah no kidding.
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This is b8
They’ve clearly never shopped at Costco. I can’t get out of there without dropping at least $200. Because, you don’t know you need a package of 50 AAA batteries, a gallon of mustard, 300 allergy pills, and a dozen rolls of Christmas wrapping paper until you’re there. Inside Costco that just makes sense.
Sure, but how much do you save long term by having those in bulk vs doing multiple trips to the store to pick up one thing at a time?
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It would be so nice to live somewhere I could walk to the store. Or anywhere.
The non-American mind cannot conceive of living in a place so vast.
More like living in a place where it can be impossible to cross a short distance on foot when it wouldn't be impossible to add a walking path.
Europe is relatively small but their towns are waaay more compact because they were built before cars came around so most towns are already in favor of walking/biking distances.
But yeah America is huuuge. The drive from Paris to central Switzerland is about 12 and a half hours and it's a total change of scenery. For the US that's just California to Utah. Or Washington DC to Charleston SC.
What the US needs badly is high speed rail from city to city
I mean we do need that, but that has nothing to do with the problem. the majority of people don't live in those vast expanses of nothingness. Most of our cities are just as populated as most European cities, we just have shit laws around zoning, single family housing, population density, NIMBYs blocking any change, and people that think public transit is for poor people. They don't travel to other countries and so have no clue how good things could actually be.
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Sounds so... Odd to me.
My entire life I've lived in a very dense city. Everywhere I look are stores, people, traffic. There's never a single moment of silence, not even at night.
I low-key feel jealous to people who live in a quiet place...
Where in the world can you buy a week's groceries for $50?
I want to know who's able to spend only $45 at Costco.
Get a week's worth of rotisserie chicken. 😀
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I never thought about it like that! I did in fact buy the car specifically to go to the grocery store and don't use it for anything else
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