why I am buying a car
I was trying the no-car life, but alas it was not meant to be. At least until February, when our company will be moving offices.
The company I work for recently purchased one of our competitors, whose headquarters are in Chicago (where I live). The Chicago office of our company is relatively small, so we’ll all be moving out to the suburbs into their building. I’m not particularly worried about my job, it never pays to worry anyway, and in fact it might get more interesting. First things first is finding out where I will sit.
However, next on the list of things to be concerned about is that I will not be working downtown right across the street from the Art Institute anymore. All public transportation systems funnel to the location of our current offices, which makes public transportation easy, cheap, and quick. But now, I will be working out … out there in the suburbs, just north of O’Hare Airport. It is totally suburbia out there. It is possible to take a bus and a train and another bus, but it will be much better if I just had a car. Although I do have to make the note that the reverse commute (to the suburbs) is not any better in Chicago than the ‘regular’ commute. So I may be taking public transport just to avoid gridlock. Ugh. I can hardly wait.
We’re a Honda family, like my sister-in-law Dawn pointed out in her letter to the Honda corporation. Both Brian/Dawn and Keith/Jody have Honda vans and corresponding Honda Civics. I had a Civic for a long time, and sold it to my mom and dad before I went to El Salvador. My dad was initially skeptical of the price in the blue book, but the boys convinced him that the total cost of ownership was really much lower than any of the cars he’d had before. Now he’s a convert.
So of course I had to buy a Honda, and the Fit seems like the model for me. It’s a little like my purchase of the Sony Bravia HDTV - new, a little spendy, but small. Costly minimalism. It’s my new theme, apparently.
Posted by Marie on December 27th, 2006 under Uncategorized
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