The o.p. was car free for four years out of 73. Let's give them 16 years off the top. What does that leave? 57 years. Four of them car free. And although they said they were car free by choice ... well it turns out that when they had cataracts removed ... vrooom. So much for being car free by choice. And the point of this thread was? And the reason it was resurrected after almost a decade is? What?