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Fair enough. Yeah, the 1000$ figure is bullshit. I pay a grand total of maybe 300€ a month on my car. Ok, it's a plug-in hybrid that I charge at home with photovoltaics and we mostly don't use it daily, because we do live relatively close to work and take the E-Bike more often than not. But we're still paying it off, so that's where most of that sum comes from.
I live 3km outside of a 90k population city (10km from work) and bought a relatively big house from 1996 for 235k€, so I guess it's nice to not have to live in or near a gigantic metropolis. I also love to take the E-Bike to work, it's pure freedom.
Edit: we need the car mostly for grocery shopping and driving our daughter to her friends.
Yeah. E bikes and one wheels and stuff are total fun. I'm hoping to live in one of the Goldilocks zones where you can be near a city and travel everywhere by bike without needing to get on a highway. As it stands, * have to pack my bike in a car and drive out somewhere to ride, and that just sucks.