I managed perfectly well in Oxford for about 16 years (the last 6 of those as a homeowner 4 miles from city centre) and only since the sproglet was due did we get a car (and we still probably wouldn't have got one without a relative saying `go and buy a car - here's the cash').
Anyway, most of the initial contents of my house came by home delivery from various places, so it's not true that you can't buy a bookcase. Travelling out of Oxford is fairly simple by bus and train - it sounds expensive, but then so is owning a car (the aforementioned cash didn't include any for the insurance, which I wasn't terribly happy about; the car is now due for a service which will cost a hundred quid or so, and in a couple of months it will be MOT and tax time again).
I didn't even get a bicycle until I started house-hunting.
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Date: 2004-04-16 04:52 am (UTC)Anyway, most of the initial contents of my house came by home delivery from various places, so it's not true that you can't buy a bookcase. Travelling out of Oxford is fairly simple by bus and train - it sounds expensive, but then so is owning a car (the aforementioned cash didn't include any for the insurance, which I wasn't terribly happy about; the car is now due for a service which will cost a hundred quid or so, and in a couple of months it will be MOT and tax time again).
I didn't even get a bicycle until I started house-hunting.