Your previous post,
I get the impression that your reasons for not using, selling your car are purely financial?
The disadvantages in not owning a car in a rural area are not financial they are that you become more limited in your opportunities and as you have suggested some journeys become almost like a military operation where as if you have a car you can just jump in it and go. Cars, bicycles, public transport all have their place, but as good as cycling is, a car is a pretty quick and painless way to travel. Some people have no option but to drive.
I have to agree here a gave up my car a little while ago ago, nine times out of ten i could use a bike and not worry about it but that every 1 in 10 i would think dame i wish i had a car and where a bike fails a car really does come into its own. i live out in the sticks abit and really has proved it self when the time has come.
What i noticed when i was car free is that people in cars etc seem to think that people on pushbikes are poor, this really is not the case and i did get pissed of when people said this to me, people dont know how i spent my money so have no dame right to say shoot like that! i spent MY money on things I wanted to spend it on, not because i was bloody poor!!! there are some people who drive but i bet have never ridden a push bike in there lives, well i say get of your lazy arses and try before you start judging me by the push bike that i ride!!!!!!!!
I love cycling
and im proud to say that i do still ride my bike, i ride my pushbike when i go to work, when i go to the shops, when i exercise and even when i go on holiday (bike touring). i have nothing but respect for the people who are car free, i really do and maybe there maybe a time when i too can do this but for every that 1 in 10, that once in a blue moon, the car really is worth its weight in gold
i pay for mot, tax (sorry v.e.d!
) insurance fuel etc it is expensive and i think by riding my bike most of time i do feel i offset those cost and really makes having a car worth while.
i own a push bike because i enjoy, no i love cycling and i own a car because every now and then the car is able to do things i carnt do with a push bike
PLEASE NOTE this in not ment to up set any one and is only a view point of my current circimstances
fingers crossed my internet connection wont time out as this took a long time to type!