If I think about a walkable city, I keep on getting stuck.
Regardless of whether I get around during the week to a doctors appointment, my work, friends, etc I still will need a car.
Not being able to buy things in larger amounts means that you get taken advantage of, looking at price per X at your local grocer vs Costco.
Then during the weekend I want to go into nature. You cannot economically have public transportation to all those hiking trails.
Some of you might say: what about a rental for when I need a car? Lots of rental places just flat-out don't allow you to take the vehicle off of paved roads.
One reason costco is cheaper is because they charge for a membership. It’s not that cheaper. Honestly it’s not even cheaper if you compare against a regular supermarket and you are willing to buy a different brand then the one offered at Costco
I have never seen a rental saying where you can or can’t go with a vehicle
> 5. PROHIBITED USE OF THE CAR
NEITHER YOU NOR ANY AUTHORIZED OPERATOR MAY:
...
d. ENGAGE IN ANY WILLFUL OR WANTON MISCONDUCT, WHICH, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MAY INCLUDE RECKLESS CONDUCT SUCH AS: ..., USE OFF PAVED ROADS OR ON ROADS WHICH ARE NOT REGULARLY MAINTAINED, ...
A basic Costco membership is $60. Their chicken is $5 + tax. Same chicken at Safeway is $8.99 + tax.
So if you eat >15 chickens per year Costco is cheaper.
And even that is incorrect. Costco's chicken is 32oz, the Safeway one 28. Forgetting about taxes, Costco's is $0.15625 / oz, Safeway is $0.3210714285714286 / oz.
So now we have 2 equations, and we need to find the intersection:
* y = 60 + x * 0.15625
* y = 0.3210714285714286 * x
They cross at 11.37594799566631 chickens.
But larger chickens have larger bones, so let's keep it at 15. I definitely eat more than 15 chickens per year.
Then there's the issue of cost in general, while the house-brands of Safeway / Frys / Kroger / ... are cheaper, they are much more likely to have stuff added to it to make it 'bulkier'. A good example is Cottage Cheese from Walmart. They add a thickener to the liquid which allows them to sell you the same amount for less, but you actually get less cheese and more filler.
Regardless of whether I get around during the week to a doctors appointment, my work, friends, etc I still will need a car.
Not being able to buy things in larger amounts means that you get taken advantage of, looking at price per X at your local grocer vs Costco.
Then during the weekend I want to go into nature. You cannot economically have public transportation to all those hiking trails.
Some of you might say: what about a rental for when I need a car? Lots of rental places just flat-out don't allow you to take the vehicle off of paved roads.