Cars Are Expensive

Not a new insight, but so many people can't imagine a built environment without them so it is unfathomable that in some places the cost is an option.

A new report finds that, when transportation costs are factored in, Texas’s biggest metros aren’t the bargain they often claim to be.

Can always quibble with the precise numbers, and apples-to-apples comparisons on housing are impossible, but the general point is that it costs several hundred dollars per month to own a car and it's a big cost saving if you don't have to have one!

Honestly I don't know how one-car-per-adult households manage. It's a huge expense!