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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

We used to do that when we lived in the city. We could walk to a lot of 
places, but once a month we'd visit our parents and do larger shopping 
trips. It could be a problem, though, if you are rural...the nearest car 
rental place to me is 50+ miles.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 5:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Demotorization


> I came across a lady on freecycle who lives a similar lifestyle to some
> of us-she lives remotely on a mountain north of here...she rents a car
> for a day when she needs one.  She schedules all of her business on a
> certain day or days, and then rents a car.  That really makes a lot of
> sense to me.  Spend $50 or so a month...no insurance needs, no car
> payment, no gasoline bills...earth friendly...one trip to the store,
> doctors visits, errands...you can do much online these days...she
> actually sells avon online...good food for thought.
>
> Bev
>
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> > This isn't something that is going to happen here as it is happening in 
> > Japan
> > but it illustrates a more profound principle:
> >
> > http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/The_demotorization_of_Japan.html
> >
> > The vital market of young people in Japan start to see car ownership as
> > losing its charm and so design their lives to not revolve around having 
> > one.
> >
> > All it takes is for the mystique of the large McMansion in the burbs to 
> > wear
> > off, and it will not be possible to give them away. Here in changing 
> > times
> > lots of things are on the table like that, there are alternatives to a 
> > college
> > "education", personal credit is becoming hard to come by, and the era of 
> > sitting
> > comatose at a computer screen and earning a living by moving little blips
> > around the financial world could disappear in a trice.
> >
> > James
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