3091: Carfree For Life by A Purple Life

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3091: A Purple Life reflects on how car ownership once symbolized freedom in traffic-choked Atlanta, only to become a stressful time sink that fueled a lifelong commitment to living carfree. By designing a life around walkability, public transit, and intentional limits, she highlights the financial and mental freedom that can come from rejecting car culture entirely. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://apurplelife.com/2018/07/24/carfree-for-life/ Quotes to ponder: "Every. Single. Day. This is when I learned I never wanted to own a car or have a car commute again." "It felt like I was staring into the abyss of my commuting future." "I’ll happily substitute owning a car with a mix of public transit, walking and using the sharing economy." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello Blue Skies. Hello moving onwards and upwards. Hello, taking control of your money. Say hello to tax-free investing. Open a Stocks and Shares ICER and act by the 5th of April to get 100 to 3,000 pounds cashback. Cargreaves lands down. Hello Life. Register and add or transfer £10,000 plus. You may go Lansdowne. Hello Life.
0:23.8	Register and add or transfer £10,000 plus.
0:25.4	You may get back less than you invest.
0:26.5	And tax benefits vary.
0:28.6	For terms and conditions, see hl.co.uk. UK, 4. slash ISA.
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0:59.2	This is Optimal Finance Daily, car free for life,
1:04.1	by a purple life of apurplelife.com.
1:08.6	Atlanta, the land of horrible traffic. So I was born and raised in Atlanta. Something that might
1:15.7	surprise people is that Atlanta has horrendous traffic. We've been on the top 10 list of most
1:22.9	congested cities since I was born. And while I was growing up, we were right behind New York and L.A.
1:30.4	We had the third worst traffic in the US.
1:34.2	Cars equal the path to freedom.
1:37.8	The way Atlanta works is that as soon as kids turn 16,
1:41.4	they get their license.
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