Subj : Re: EVs
To   : Nightfox
From : Adept
Date : Thu Oct 26 2023 17:59:13

 Ni> apartment complex, and that was the first time I ever saw an apartment
 Ni> complex that charged extra for a parking space.  Before that, all the

You had a car, so you paid for a parking space. Someone who doesn't have a car doesn't have to pay for space they're not using. That seems reasonable to me.

Mind you, it _wouldn't_ make sense to charge separately for a _garage_, because theoretically you could use it as a storage space for things other than cars, regardless.

 Ni> of your apartment lease.  The fact is that people usually have a car to
 Ni> get around, and they need a place to park their car.  What seems odd to
 Ni> me is charging extra for a parking space. It's not unusual for people to
 Ni> have a car..

Of the 18 places I have lived in as an adult (I may have moved around _a lot_, and that number is kinda fuzzy), 7 of them had an obvious, non-street-parking place where I was inherently allowed to store a car.

And in every one of those cases, I was either in an isolated smaller city or in a suburb.

The rest of the time was in cities.

Cars come standard with suburbs and places far away from other places. They don't in cities. Because there's less available land in cities, which means that the economic value of any given thing has to be higher to justify the land usage.

 Ni> IF an apartment complex is going to charge extra for an assigned parking
 Ni> space, then maybe they could charge extra for being allowed to use
 Ni> specific walkways within the apartment complex.  Or maybe they could
 Ni> charge extra for being able to lock your apartment door.  Or maybe they
 Ni> could charge extra for being able to open your windows.  Charging extra
 Ni> for normal everyday things can get a bit ridiculous.  It reminds me of

I don't view having exclusive right to a parking spot as a "normal everyday thing" that should be included as part of every apartment.

But I have spent a lot of time not owning a car.

But being able to lock the door or open the windows? Have you _ever_ known someone to never use those things?

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