Owning a personal car. Pros and cons?

There are many advantages and disadvantages of owning a personal car. Based on my life experience, I would like to focus one’s attention on most important.

First of all, I bought a car about two years ago and after that my day schedule was drastically changed. Now I have a lot more free time because I spend only thirty minutes to drive to my current work. When I was student, my trip time from home to work was about two hours because I needed to take three buses to get to work. Due to that, I felt myself very tired and sick. So owning the car allows me to reduce my trip time and get more free time, which I can spend for my private life. I believe that is the biggest advantages of owning a car for me.

However, there is one important disadvantage, which should be carefully considered by anyone who wants to buy a car. It is connected with big expenses, which appeared when you own a car. For myself I spend more than one hundred dollars per month only on gasoline. Moreover, one time I had a little accident, when my car was scratched by another, and despite on little damage, I had to pay more than thousand for repair work. Therefore, owning a car causes big expenses and anyone who want to buy a car need to ask himself is he able to pay that money every month. In my opinion, this is the worst disadvantage of owning a car.

At the end, I would like to say that having a personal car is a really important thing in modern life, but before buying you should rationally weigh all pros and cons.