Submitted 18 hours ago by rumschlumpel@feddit.org to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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The closest grocery store is 1.5 hour walk. I’m not doing that in a Canadian winter or with hands full of groceries. And no, it’s not bikeable 5 months a year.
Also, I’ve bought four cars in my lifetime. I spent a combined $13,000 on them. My first car was $1400 and I still have it.
where are you buying a drivable car in canada that cheap
In Ontario. It was my first car, so 10 years ago, so not quite the same market as today. It was a '96 Tercel. No AC option, no airbags, no ABS, no cruise control, crank windows, manual locks, manual transmission. Needed brake lines and a windshield.
ehm Canadian winter will make sure the food does not spoil on the way ☺️
Neither will op’s corpse until they find it next spring.
ride a bike don’t be fat
That’s how it works obviously
They’ve clearly never shopped at Costco. I can’t get out of there without dropping at least $200. Because, you don’t know you need a package of 50 AAA batteries, a gallon of mustard, 300 allergy pills, and a dozen rolls of Christmas wrapping paper until you’re there. Inside Costco that just makes sense.
And a gigantic box of frozen spanakopita, every time
That’s our go-to lazy Sunday breakfast.
It would be so nice to live somewhere I could walk to the store. Or anywhere.
The non-American mind cannot conceive of living in a place so vast.
Europe is relatively small but their towns are waaay more compact because they were built before cars came around so most towns are already in favor of walking/biking distances.
But yeah America is huuuge. The drive from Paris to central Switzerland is about 12 and a half hours and it’s a total change of scenery. For the US that’s just California to Utah. Or Washington DC to Charleston SC.
What the US needs badly is high speed rail from city to city
More like living in a place where it can be impossible to cross a short distance on foot when it wouldn't be impossible to add a walking path.
Sounds so… Odd to me.
My entire life I’ve lived in a very dense city. Everywhere I look are stores, people, traffic. There’s never a single moment of silence, not even at night.
I low-key feel jealous to people who live in a quiet place…
Where in the world can you buy a week’s groceries for $50?
1970ish?
Yes, we were all buying $300k cars in 1970.
Depends on how many people live in your household and what you eat. You can spend even less if you’re only cooking for one and most meals are ‘beans and rice’-level.
I’d assume that the hard part is actually finding an affordable place in a somewhat walkable neighborhood, especially if you don’t want to live in a one-room apartment.
Also if you are walking to the store, you are limiting the amount you can buy as you have to transport it back home. I have a nice little collapsible cart I use. Even that fills up and gets heavy once you are adding beverages.
If you are extremely frugal everywhere, even the US
in my country if you ignore meat its almost that
I want to know who's able to spend only $45 at Costco.
I reckon I could do it for one person, but I’d have to cut down on bacon.
But it depends on where you live.
Usually I manage $40-$67 (£30-£50) in the UK - usually it depends on if I need bonus things that aren’t weekly (cleaning supplies etc) :)
This week’s groceries for my family of 4 was only like $70. For a single person who’s not buying microwave ready meals, that’s easily doable.
Where do you live? Where I live, $70 is one week of frugal meals for a single 20-50 year old male. A family of four is $230 a week, per the USDA.
This is b8
This sounds like a guy who is upset that he cannot afford a car so he comes up with reasons why its bad to own one and better to be in his position but due to lack of car owner experience just fucks the numbers all up and then looks stupid.
This sounds like a guy who is upset that he doesn’t live in a walkable city so he comes up reasons why it’s bad to live in one but due to lack of walkability experience just fucks the arguments and then looks stupid.
some people don’t like having overpriced housing costs that don’t include even a quarter acer of land
Doesn’t sound like that at all. Ridiculous that there are people who think a car is a necessity. It might be a necessity in most of the US, you can thank car manufacturer for that. I’m fine using my feet, bicycle or train. If I need a car I’ll borrow or rent one.
I never thought about it like that! I did in fact buy the car specifically to go to the grocery store and don’t use it for anything else
Have you considered renting? Depending on the business model, that could be very cheap if it’s just a couple of hours per week.
Renting a car? Oh… You mean like, subscribing? The type of payment model where the consumer always ends up overpaying?
Or instacart.
Can’t you just order groceries? Isn’t that a thing in the US?
Who’s putting $200 of gas in their car per month, what you doing driving the root 66 along a weekly basis? The shops all of 5 miles away if it’s that.
Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.
Wouldn’t have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.
If your commute is about an hour each way you’re probably spending roughly that much.
Not having a car wouldn’t be an option then.
I did when I had a really shitty commute for about a year and a half. Crazy thing is it wasn’t even that bad compared to some of my coworkers there.
!fuckcars@lemmy.world
Anon is far too stupid to be trusted with a car
Spending only $50 a week on groceries, I dont expect Anon will live very long due to malnourishment.
Wait, what’s your weekly grocery bill just for you?
Man, y’all really have no clue about other countries do you.
Randomgal@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
“walk to a store” lol okay bro doesn’t know wtf they’re talking about.