1783: Carfree For Life by A Purple Life on Simple Living Practices

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

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A Purple Life talks about going car-free for life Episode 1783: Carfree For Life by A Purple Life on Simple Living Practices A Purple Life was started by an anonymous writer in 2015. They hatched a plan to retire in 10 years at 35, and with the help of decreased spending, increased wages, and geoarbitrage, they reached their goal in half the time and retired in 2020 at age 30. A Purple Life catalogues their journey to and through early retirement The original post is located here: https://apurplelife.com/2018/07/24/carfree-for-life/ Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Interested in advertising on the show? https://www.advertisecast.com/OptimalFinanceDaily Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Finance Daily episode 1783, car-free for life by a purple life of a purple life.com
0:09.9	And I'm your host and personal finance enthusiast, Diana Mariam.
0:14.4	For now, let's get right to it and continue optimizing your life.
0:22.8	Car-free for life by a purple life of a purple life.com
0:28.3	At Lanna, the land of horrible traffic. So I was born and raised in Atlanta.
0:35.5	Something that might surprise people is that Atlanta has horrendous traffic.
0:41.1	We've been on the top 10 list of most congested cities since I was born.
0:46.3	And while I was growing up, we were right behind New York and LA.
0:50.9	We had the third worst traffic in the US.
0:54.5	Cars equal the path to freedom.
0:58.3	The way Atlanta works is that as soon as kids turn 16, they get their license.
1:03.5	Why? So they can drive themselves to school or if they ride a school bus,
1:08.8	so they can have some freedom and not be dropped off everywhere by their parents.
1:13.7	We don't have public transit that is at all helpful unless you're going from the airport
1:18.8	to downtown or one part of downtown to another.
1:22.4	Heads up, basically no one lives downtown.
1:25.8	Driving yourself is the only path to freedom as a kid in Atlanta.
1:30.8	Sleep driving. So when I turned 16, that's what I did.
1:35.5	After getting my license from 16 to 17 when I graduated, I drove myself to school.
1:41.9	This involved getting up at 5.30am to try and beat the traffic
1:47.2	only to be stuck in it for one to one and a half hours every morning and arrive at school
1:52.9	an hour before it starts. Without traffic, which never happens,
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