preparing for retirement, we gave the amazingly reliable 96 civic to our neice, sold off the 98 Tracker winter car which was starting to cost too much in repairs and body work, sold off the 02 Thunderbird summer car for not a lot less than I paid for it (used), and took advantage of a 4K government subsidy which was expiring and bought an 08 Civic Hybrid, bringing us down to one car, which was possible as I have a 5 minute commute to work on foot. The house is actually closer than the department parking lot, which they put a quarter mile from the building following some sort of health policy...of course senior management parks IN the building.
Then the wife didn't retire (she keeps waiting for an awful event to trigger her departure) and the department moved 2 miles away from my house (after buying the building 8 years ago, discovering asbestos, spending 5 years cleaning it up, then selling the building just before we moved in, then leasing it back for 25 years, and of course the department has outgrown the space, before we have even completed the move). This permitted me to buy a gas guzzling 150kilometer 2000 Jeep Cherokee, which is what I lusted for in the first place, instead of the civic. When she finally retires (and I will not be far behind) the Cherokee will probably become the florida car that we leave down there.
Sadly, Segways are illegal here for regular use.