Anyone else don't drive?
Now I do have a car I just haven't drove it in a few months because I can't afford to drive it
36-40, F
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't drive needlessly. I use the buses for most of my trips into town about two miles away: in good weather often the bus to town but walk home.
Our bus services on their main routes are usually fairly good and I can reach the next town (ten miles) quite easily by bus.
I can also travel by train from town to many other parts of the country; and without the inconvenience of via London. (That would entail crossing London from one main-line terminus to another. The Underground system is fine for that and easy to find your way on; but it's been so long since I last used it, I do not know how you pay your fare these days. I have the impression it is no longer a matter of simply asking at a ticket-office or buying from a ticket-machine; but it's going that way on Network Rail too.)
Othwerwise, most of my "social, domestic & leisure" journeys would be impractical, even impossible, without my car.
It is undeniably expensive though, with petrol around £1.40 / litre at the moment, high tax and insurance, and sometimes-expensive servicing costs. And it's only a modest Renault not a Range-Rover, nor one of those bloated builder's pick-ups or two-tonne vans that seem to have become fashionable commuter-chariots!
Our bus services on their main routes are usually fairly good and I can reach the next town (ten miles) quite easily by bus.
I can also travel by train from town to many other parts of the country; and without the inconvenience of via London. (That would entail crossing London from one main-line terminus to another. The Underground system is fine for that and easy to find your way on; but it's been so long since I last used it, I do not know how you pay your fare these days. I have the impression it is no longer a matter of simply asking at a ticket-office or buying from a ticket-machine; but it's going that way on Network Rail too.)
Othwerwise, most of my "social, domestic & leisure" journeys would be impractical, even impossible, without my car.
It is undeniably expensive though, with petrol around £1.40 / litre at the moment, high tax and insurance, and sometimes-expensive servicing costs. And it's only a modest Renault not a Range-Rover, nor one of those bloated builder's pick-ups or two-tonne vans that seem to have become fashionable commuter-chariots!