My family was car free when I was growing up, as we lived in Manhattan. I didn't learn to drive until I was 20, and it was not an urgent thing. My friend's mother just offered to teach me, and I said sure, it might come in handy one day. I got my first car at age 26 when I moved to the NJ suburbs. I moved back from NJ to NYC in 2013, and I soon afterwards sold my car, because managing the on-street parking was difficult, and the need wasn't great. I was getting about $400 in parking tickets each month, and a garage could cost around the same. My wife has a car. She commutes in it, as she works all over the area. We have a weekend home, so we use it for that, although we often go up and come back on different schedules, in which case, I take a bus.

I've been thinking that a motor vehicle might be handy, but I'd like it to be cheap, so maybe it could be a motorcycle. Too bad there aren't any old, used cars the size of a Geo Metro that run on electricity.