Tag: cars
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God’s gift to nature!
Over Christmas I was searching for something to watch on TV for a bit of a chill out on the sofa. Thing is I was not at home, we were at my wife’s mum’s house and her TV is more complicated than ours. It’s one of those arrangements where the TV provider, in this case…
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Duped?
Being car-free I spend a good amount of time walking around near roads – you know just getting to the shops etc. At times I watch the drivers – I find it quite fascinating. Besides getting generally annoyed about being unable to avoid the associated car noise and smell, and having to wait for a…
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How much??
I was wondering the other day how much money we avoid spending by being a car-free family versus the average car-owning family. From a bit of web-searching I found a suggestion that the average annual cost of running a car in the UK is £3,580. Another source suggested £3,552. What is quite surprising is the…
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A non-car
One thing that I particularly enjoy about car-freedom is that because we don’t ever have a car sat outside our presence at home is not clearly marked. Some research suggested that the average car in Britain spends 23 hours a day parked, of which almost three quarters it is parked outside the owner’s house. Although…
Car-free family 