West vs East : Relationship and family values.

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Don't sell a car - you'll never know when you'd need it. Even if you really need the money, there's surely got to be another way.

Unless it's absolutely damaged beyond what you can do financially to repair it and don't believe it's really worth it, go ahead.

Otherwise, so long as you're never using the car, how would it be expensive to run or maintain aside from the occasional checkups/maintenance and rego?

At least you wouldn't be using money on fuel because you wouldn't be driving it.

Even if you can get to work and around town without it, your life is more than just work.

What happens when some friend or relative a few hours outta town is in trouble? You won't be able to reach them.

Just remember, a car is a signal of freedom - you can go anywhere when you need to.

This is coming from someone who hates the idea of driving and is on their learner's but has 0 hours completed on it.

FACE OF BOO:

Would you agree in the vast majority of relationships, the men are the one driving and the women the one being driven?

I've read from most women online they want to date a man who can drive because they are already use to driving themselves around all the time and want to be able to also 'sit back and relax' and let him do the driving.

Hypocritical, right? Considering men who drive would also be driving themselves around all the time - there's no right for him to feel he can relax and let her do the driving.

My wife likes me to drive.

She's the worst back-seat driver!

I didn't get a license until age 37. Nor a car until age 51.

No "red flags" came up in my experience. This might be because I live in a city with much public transportation, though.

Maybe the typical spatial awareness differences between men and women influence the importance some women may place on men owning a car. Whats wrong with placing value on a strength men generally have?

LOL...this is so ironic:

My spatial awareness is really rather poor; whereas my wife's is really rather good.

But she'd still rather have me drive

Expecting the man to drive....this is something that both West and East have it.

There are many different kinds of dates and different environments that dates occur in. Cars don't come into play with all of them. But many types do require them, or put another way aren't possible without. So having a car keeps the maximum options open, which in life as well as dating is usually a good thing.

To be honest, I have seen many women who are spatially-efficient, and mechanically-inclined. I don't find this to be unusual, or necessarily a detriment to a woman's femininity.

It does frustrate me that I AM NOT spatially-efficient or mechanically-inclined.

But...you have to do the best with what you've got.

When I was first courting my wife I wanted to show her I trusted her and offered to let her drive my brand new sporty car (she had just totaled her own 2nd vehicle). Then I kept quiet because of love as she flew down a german forested mountain barely on the edge of control in the sharp turns. The problem was she was used to German specs cars and I had gotten mine American specs. So she was reading 70 as Kilometers per hour (about 45 MPH) instead of the 70 Miles per hour we were actually doing. So I thought, yeah maybe we're gonna die. But if we don't I just might have a girl friend.