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Originally Posted by Tapioca
For a two parent household, a car is a necessary evil once you become a parent. Even in a city as dense as Vancouver, I find that having a car is so much more convenient that planning your life around transit. I am happy to defend this perspective as we have lived in a denser neighbourhood when we had a newborn vs now with our typical suburban living situation.
Living in Vancouver proper brings all sorts of other challenges as well when you become a parent - lack of daycares, lack of civic facilities, lack of elementary schools in areas of the city where middle-income families are having to live, etc.
So, if you have to basically have a car once you become a parent, the savings argument kind of falls off.
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Imagine trying to drop off and pick up your kid at daycare using transit. You may as well be a stay at home parent or become a teacher at the daycare because you aren't getting to work on time.