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Saving a fuck tonne of money. Between the financing, tax, MOT, petrol, parking and maintainable, I save thousands a year.
Better health. I walk about 2 miles total a day that I wouldn't if I had a car and drove to work. And then if I need to go to the shops or something that's either more expersise or I just don't buy the snacks I wanted. Plenty of people i know that drive will take their car to shops that are 5 mins walk away.
More "free" time. Since I don't have to focus on driving during my commute, I watch TV shows or movies, or play games (Currently binging Stargate and watch an episode each way on the commute, and beat the new Zelda mostly on the train)
Then the less tangible things like knowing I'm doing my fair share to stop climate change and encourage the government to invest in public transport.
Knowing I'm not repaonsible for kids growing up with respiratory diseases, knowing ill never get in a car accident and kill someone, whether due to my own negligence or not and have that on my conscience forever (my sisters husband killed a kid that ran infrint of his car. There was nothing he could have done, but he's still never been the same since)
And my mental wellbeing, my walk takes me through parks and woodland on one side and cute side streets filled with boutique stores and pop up art exhibitions on the other
Oh and I don't have to worry about my car when I go out drinking, or worry about it getting stolen or the catalytic converter being ripped out like my housemate does.
And probably a few other little things that I can't think of right now.