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This is the same reason I moved out of the city.

Rents are very high because they assume you can live there without a car, but as someone who frequently drove far out of the city I was paying for the worst of both worlds.

I agree with your TCO assessment, thanks to pandemic/WFH myself and my partner were able to switch to sharing a car and we saw about 10k in annual savings.

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> Rents are very high because they assume you can live there without a car

Rents are very high in cities because there's not enough housing for everyone who wants to live there [1] not because of an assumption about car ownership.

[1] Ironically, in part because of an assumption that people will have cars, which is one limitation on how dense housing construction is allowed to be.

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