Just one more check on the boards to see if there's something I'm not thinking of here!
We live in the suburbs, can walk to grocery store, bank, coffee shop, dentist, acupuncturist, frozen yogurt (v. important), pharmacy. Can bike to the library, restaurants, primary care doctor, work. Also can carpool to work with DH as a backup. As a backup backup I can walk (3 miles each way, long walk) or Uber.
Places very difficult to access with public transit, walking & biking: my parents house, out in the city to visit friends
Places I cannot access without a car: my in laws, specialists, the horse barn (only go 1x/week though).
However, my DH and I are codependent homebodies so I don't see this as much of a problem. My two biggest concerns are if I have an ongoing health problem that precludes biking AND requires lots of appointments with specialists (but you've got to be an optimist, right?) OR if he gets a new job that makes carpooling more difficult - however, he is a teacher, so it will at least be in the same county - but may be in the opposite direction of my work. BUT, biking is my primary mode of transit, and I have lots of flexibility with telework - this is more likely to increase than decrease in future years.
We are like 99% decided. The car costs us very little to own and will only net about 4K, but I hate implicitly supporting the idea that American families need (at least) one car per adult. Everyone I know IRL thinks we are crazy for doing this which keeps shaking my confidence but we have done a one-car test run for a few weeks now and all is fine.
But, what would suck would be getting 4K for my reliable car and then having to turn around and shell out probably more money for a used car that may or may not be reliable, if we are wrong about this.
Thoughts?