&gt; And anyone driving their own car needs to pay for parking, plus for full insurance, registration and so on.<p>Those costs don&#x27;t go away just because you&#x27;re renting. In the same way property taxes don&#x27;t disappear just because you aren&#x27;t paying them directly in a leased apartment.<p>&gt; Free street parking will gradually disappear and off-street parking is not going to get any cheaper.<p>This applies to <i>maybe</i> 10% of the population. And I feel like that&#x27;s pretty generous. You probably haven&#x27;t seen much of the US outside of the North East if you think that&#x27;s even remotely plausible.