Do you and your dh car share, or do you feel l having two car is essential ?

[Lardlizard]

To your life ?

Yes because both DH and I’s work requires us to move sites often and transfer kit (unrelated jobs though) which neither of us could manage on public transport.

I feel I need 2 cars.

I don't use mine during the week as I cycle to work but dh is often away (with his car) at weekends and I need/want to be able to go to the gym with dc and various kit bags (can't cycle), go out on day trips to places with no public transport, go and see friends in places with no public transport.

I do live in a village in a rural county. If I was in the centre of London or maybe another big city it might be different.

We did have 2 cars up until a year ago, at first I thought it was very inconvenient but we've got used to it now and things just take a bit more planning.It hasn't been as bad I was expecting tbh.

We have one, DH bikes to work. On the odd occasion it's a pain, we can always rent a car.

we have 1 car.
Lifestyle allows for it, as we both work mostly from home.
we use car a lot for kids stuff, and occasionally to travel for work. Where possible we do work stuff on public transport.

We all (teen kids included) use bikes quite a lot, and kids have to come home on the bus a fair amount.

We used to have 2 but now have just one. We live in the middle of nowhere but we do have a train station within walking distance which runs to the city. So DH doesn't need a car for his commute any more.

I drive to work, DH uses public transport.
There are occasions when 2 cars might come in handy. We usually manage to work round them, and it doesn't happen often.
The odd taxi, or having to carefully plan logistics and leave enough time to walk when necessary, is a lot less trouble in the long run than having to afford 2 cars.

Essential for us. One works half an hour in one direction, the other half an hour in the other. One does 8-4 Mon-Fri, the other does 7-4, 11-8 or 9-6. We have dogs and one needs to go to the vets at least monthly, and public transport in our village is virtually non existent. I would love to only have one car, but it wouldn't work right now.

We car share but it does mean some compromises. There are some things we just can't do, or we have to work out semi-complicated drop off/pick up arrangements to manage. It saves us so much money though, so we put up with it.

Essential. DH needs one for his job - boot and seats full of work stuff, 10- 20 different locations a day.

His job is somewhere with horrible public transport. Nearest non heritage train 15 miles away, bus to there takes 1hr 20... so for me to work, ferry kids, shop I need a car.

I have the car he has his work van. both need own transport for work.

We need two cars. We work in opposite directions (he has a 10/15 minute commute , mine is 25 mins) and have a child drop off/pick up schedule that would be impossible for just one of us having a car.
Public transport is really not convenient for where we live -> where we work.

When we lived in London and also Sydney (and didn't have kids) we didn't need cars as the public transport was much better. We hired a car when necessary.
However neither of us could work where we do without one.

Just the one here, two is a nice to have but not nec. I am freq away weekends with it and leave enough shopping in and leave them to it - they can get trains into town if required. DH is away alot with work but its trains and planes as far as possible. We have always said would just hire if needed and can't say we have needed to for 3 or 4 years - we work around but we are both WAH self employed

We have one car.

A second car would probably make life a bit easier but I cannot justify the cost or the environmental impact.

I take taxis when needed and last year spent about £1200 on all the taxis I needed. An awful lot less than an additional car would cost me.

We need two cars. We both have jobs in different cities and I use my car for work anyway. We don’t live in each other pockets at the weekend and I like having MY car. Fuck sharing a car unless you absolutely have to.

We need two - I drive to different locations with work dh cannot get to his work on public transport (village location)
Public transport here is expensive- it's cheaper for me to get a taxi into town than the bus, it's walkable alone but not with a toddler

We have one car. I work the other side of town and he works close to where we live, so I usually have the car. I also do all the school runs, shopping, after school stuff, so it makes more sense for me to have it. He doesn't really need it, although there are times when it would be handy to have two. We make do though and negotiate and compromise when needed.

We have one car. Currently on maternity leave but we just work round each other. Not been an issue so far.

We share but we live in a big city where a car isn’t essential for getting around. In the summer DH usually walks DD to nursery then has a 15 minute cycle to work using the bike share and I’ll drive. We work nearby each other and have a similar schedule so can car pool when the weather is bad. Or one of us will take the train or Uber. A second car wouldn’t get used so it would be a waste.

At present, two cars between us.
We live in the countryside and I am nervous cycling along lanes but we do have avery good bus service, so use that when convenient.
When my car gets to cost more in repairs than it's worth, I daresay we won't replace it.

We have one car. There has only been one occasion in the last 10 years or so when having a second car would have been useful, but that was easily sorted out. We are in London though, and DH cycles or gets public transport to work.

One car. We've made decisions around where we live and our lifestyle to enable this. There are often times when 2 would be nice, but we make the effort to work round whatever problem.

Surely it depends on your circumstances?

In ours, DH drives to work. I take the train 3 days pw. For the rest of the week tho, we live about 1 mile from some shops and 3-4 miles from most services. So I could cycle/walk/bus but it would take up an awful lot of time. So we have 2 cars. When DH retires, we plan to revert to one.

It’s not essential but it makes life much easier. DH has a company car & is away a lot. I can walk to work, and do most days, but if I want to go out & about, visit friends or my elderly parents it makes it so much easier than using very unreliable public transport. We live fairly rurally, no station & few buses. Actually we have 3 cars as DH also has a truck which is a real luxury, I don’t drive it. Our teenage DS shares my car.

We car share, if I need the car, then I drive DH to work and pick him up. We both have bikes, I work locally and all the kids go to school on the bus. His work is 10 minutes drive away. It might be different if he had a longer commute. Where we lived before he had a motorbike, as I used the car for work/schoolrun and he worked irregular hours. It was better and cheaper than having two cars.