I went carless for a year - here's what I learned

My daily companion.

Last year, I moved to a studio loft. It was er, rather swanky. So swanky that car parks cost about RM250 per month to rent. I figured that since I could walk to work and the apartment was literally next to an LRT station, it didn’t make sense to rent an expensive car park so that I could “store” my car. So, I left my car back in my old place 20km away from my studio.

It was a weird arrangement, especially in car-mad Kuala Lumpur, but it worked. Still, many expressed confus...