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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
As @ Tcoat says, it depends on where you live. Atlanta metro, for example, is a "commuting" town. Very few people live within "spitting distance" of work. I drive 40 miles each way to work, mostly rural roads. Most everyone one I know drives at least 10 miles, and some up to 60.
In addition, there are no stores within walking distance of my house, basically we drive everywhere. I own 5 cars, 2 of which I am the primary driver. Between the FRS (weekdays and some weekends) and the Suburban (weekends and vacations) I drive about 35,000 miles a year.
I do think I'm higher than most, but I don't really think I'm that out of the ordinary. My boss drives an F250. He lives 5 miles from work, but overall puts 25,000 miles a year on his truck because he uses it just about every weekend to haul his boat to a fishing tournament somewhere.
That's life outside the city limits. |
Yeah,I did say if you have a sizeable commute. I commute 30 miles total to and from work every day. Seems like the biggest difference is that shopping,whether it be food,clothes,whatever,are all within five miles from me.
Also,I bought my car with almost 20k miles on it in 2015.I put about 250 miles between fillups,which usually about every nine days or so. That comes out to about just over 10k for the year.So just speaking from my perspective,145k is still a shit ton of miles,but I do understand if you live in a rural area.