Originally Posted by
Paul01
We're car lite. We bought our car, a 2000 VW Golf new in 2000. We recently turned 70,000 miles on the odometer and half of that was on long vacation trips or to visit the family .
We bike or walk mostly. For instance, the super market is an eight mile round trip and we bike mostly depending on weather. Ditto the bank and the other errands.
I'd have to say that being car light in Tampa trumps being carfree in many cities. Last time I visited Tampa, it seemed to be overrun with cars. Everything seemed miles apart. So I'd imagine a 4 miles trip to the grocery store isn't that unusual.
Many of the carfree people on this forum have much shorter trips for food.