Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses

Re:Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses by josephcsible on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:14PM (#30972121)

> You are paying mortgage + property tax on the pantry space used to store it.

If you have the space anyway, you're not paying any extra to store stuff in it. And it's expensive enough to move that it's not economical to do so just to have the lower payments from 1 fewer square foot.

> Not to mention gas to drive and get it. And vehicle insurance. And car maintenance.

If you stop at the store on the way home from somewhere else that you were going anyway, the additional cost of those things is basically zero.

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Re:Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses by com2kid on Saturday April 09, 2022 @06:56PM (#30972949)

The alternative is living in an area where you don't have to drive everywhere to get things.

I drive maybe 200 miles a month now. I walk down the street to a supermarket to get toilet paper when I run out.

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Re:Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses by jjav on Sunday April 10, 2022 @05:13AM (#30975526)

> I drive maybe 200 miles a month now.

But still pay full insurance presumably?

I've been fighting this with the insurance company ever since the pandemic started. We no longer drive anywhere daily, working from home. But the insurance company wants to maximize profit so they won't approve less than 6000 miles per year, a number they made up, and keep raising prices.

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Re:Parking kills businesses, not bikes or buses by com2kid on Sunday April 10, 2022 @06:31PM (#30982385)

I barely drove 6000 miles a year pre pandemic while living in the suburbs!

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