Question I have for city dwellers. What do grocery trips look like? I've only ever lived in the suburbs and I've always been interested. Do you bring it all on the subway? Go more then once a week? Walk it home in a cart? Eat out more instead?
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All of the above, depending on exact conditions
- when I was entirely without a car, I just walked. I was single so carrying groceries usually worked ok. As a first Thanksgiving when I got married I Walked to the grocery like 5 times for all the stiff we needed and didn’t think of ahead of time
- I saw plenty of people with carts and tried that a few times
- I briefly tried delivery
- I saw people using taxis - I didn’t realize at the time but many of them compromised by walking to and taxiing back
- I have usually had a car though, even if groceries was my only weekly trip (plus occasional needs)
Actually now that I live in an urban suburb, I could do a lot without a car but carrying groceries is not worth the fight to find an alternate way
I can fit 2 paper bags of groceries in my bike basket. There is not a grocery on my short commute route or I would go on the way home. But really I can haul a few days stuff in the bike if I want to.
The car was essential when the kids were little, but as a couple the e-bike does more of the heavy lifting.
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$1000 a month for a car is a pretty low estimate for most people. And even if we accept that estimate, it's $1000 per month, per car. Most suburban families are going to need more than one.
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If I had to live in an apartment again I would consider ending it. And no way does my truck cost me that much to run, I bought it for 5k ish 7 years ago. I only have a couple k into repairs in those 7 years. I'll take the average of actually only $100 more operation cost a month to not wait on the side of the road as busses pass me like I watched happen to a dude in 8F temps the other day.
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Depends where my work is