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That's like 95% of all trips.
Take a train. Even if trains are not available, those trips are rare enough, for average people, that renting a car for them is cheaper than buying.
Unless you're a professional furniture mover, you're going to do this so rarely that it would be cheaper to just hire a professional furniture mover, than to buy a truck.
It helps if you have an old car that doesn't cost a lot of money. In terms of cost vs renting. And a trailer hitch so you can just rent a trailer for furniture and stuff. I've used mine a lot. Doesn't need to be a truck for that, even a small car can do a normal sized trailer.
I don't live anywhere near an airport so no rental cars available to me either, it'd take at least 2-3 hours to get to one via public transit
Can... Can you haul a couch in your car? Isnt that whar moving vans are for? Or trains?
I live in a major German city, have a car, bicycle and a public transport subscription. I use public transit daily, ride bycicle 2-3 times a week and drive car 2-3 times a month. I do transport heavy loads when driving car. I use bike in my area to get to shops. I go with public transit to and from work.
Inter-city trains are fast, but fuck schedules and interruptions. I'd rather wake up, pack my backpack and hit the Autobahn for 4-5 hours and be there rather than go though a hellhole of trying to reach central station on time in the middle of the night just to save me 20-40 euros one way cause later time tickets are more expensive.
I don't want to rely on a tram in the night that not supposed to be there, but schedule says it will, and then it still doesn't arrive just to run quick to a nearby parking lot and try to pickup a Carshare and drive to central station under time pressure and spend shit ton of time trying to find a parking spot in the night.
I don't want to get a ticket with a connection train just to have my or connection train to be late for the connection schedule and then wait god knows how much for the next train and pray that won't happen during cold weather.
One time I took Flixtrain to save some money and that shit was extremely noisy even my noise cancelling headphones didn't help much.
One time I took bus that would go 15h one way. I will never take a bus in my entire life again for this much time. I value my painless back much more over money.
I still would fight for much more better public transportation in any city of the world. But that is bullshit to think that bike of all things gives much more freedom than a car.
Yeah, Deutsche Bahn is legendary. You are excused.