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Ah, yes, an urbanist telling me to sell the thing that allows me to live far enough away from the metropole such that I can afford a home, which, in turn, is now the only alternative available to a pension, and those, famously, no longer exist for nearly all workers. Factor that in, and selling your car gets you short-term gains in exchange for several decades of poverty at the other end.

Friends, we are going to need to do better than, "have enough money not to put your head in the money-stealing bear trap." We all know it's expensive to be poor. That's what just poverty is; noticing this does not mean you get to stop paying for it.

And I say this as an urbanist, with progressive politics, in a city well-serviced by public transit.