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.
I didn't say it was; I simply pointed out that you had to pay for home delivery, and arrange to be in when it arrived. The first of those is costly, the second inconvenient if everyone in the house works.
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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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I didn't say it was; I simply pointed out that you had to pay for home delivery, and arrange to be in when it arrived. The first of those is costly, the second inconvenient if everyone in the house works.