Originally Posted by
350htrr
If the
reason you go car-free, is because you can't "afford" a car,
it will never be a satisfactory kind of life... IMO... It's just the way it is, or it's just the way it turned out to be, NOT really a good thing, at all for you or anyone in that situation...
I disagree. I almost never eat nuts besides peanuts because of the cost, but I'm not less happy because I rarely eat something that I really enjoy. In fact, I think I enjoy and appreciate walnuts, pecans, almonds, etc. that much more because they are a rare treat. I get the same effect from visiting places occasionally by bus or bike that I might drive to more frequently if I drove. I've simply learned the basic logic that how much you wait or work for something has an influence on how much you appreciate/enjoy it.