Originally Posted by
donnamb
There's a couple featured in this article who would benefit from getting rid of one car and using bikes more on so many levels...
The people in this article were very much like a lot of people I hang out with. (Michigan has been in the recession longer than some other locations, I guess.) People do make bad choices, but often those bad choices--especially about buying overpriced houses--were approved by the financial "experts" over the last 5 or 10 years. I don't understand the one couple paying $1200 for rent, and having two cars but using only one. I have more admiration for the last woman, who lives on a smaller income but does some gardening and lives in a low rent situation. She, like all the people in the story, owns a car. That is something that very few people think of when they're trying to cut back on expenses.