I think it depends upon what your expectations are.
We've whittled ours down to "hang out with friends and family, have a warm house with clean water, go to church or for nature walks, read, eat potatoes, grill wurst, drink beer, wear wool sweaters", and we can do that here better than anywhere else.
If we have electricity and the Internet works, that's a nice bonus.
Like, my car died last month. I sort of miss it and sharing with my husband is annoying, but I've now rearranged my schedule, so that I don't need one.
So. Okay. No car. Oh well. No more expectation for having my own car, no disappointment.
Sounds a bit sad 🫂
Not really. I'm stacking Bitcoin and we're moving house and whatnot. Now I feel less economic pressure.
Cars are crazy expensive and it was getting old and something was always breaking. We actually had a €400 repair a week before the engine finally died. 🤦🏻♀️
But I had to reframe. I used to drive around a lot, for reasons that aren't apparent to me, now. Why was I driving around so much? Like... WHY?!!!
😂
After the car broke down, we realized that I need to travel to the office on 2 particular days and he shifted his appointments around, to go in on the other days. If either of us needs an additional office-day, we drop the other off at the train station.
And that was it. We could have done that the whole time, but we didn't think of it.
I now just do my shopping and appointments, and whatnot, on those two days or on the weekend.
Could we have 2 cars in the States? Probably. Does it matter to us? Not really.
A lot of things don't really matter.
