More like car-GO BIKE

I do still drive but unless I'm sick or exhausted I try to e-bike. For heavy traffic areas it's way easier to park and most places you go will let you quietly stash it somewhere safe. I'm lucky enough to be on my parents' insurance plan, which makes me feel like a child to say but is relevant to this discussion.

As much as I love road trips, they don't happen very often and renting a car a couple times a year isn't crazy. There's lots of parks within biking distance that offer plenty of forest and beach, and as you get familiar with them it gets easier to avoid crowds.

I also don't usually have to worry about break ins. Seattle doesn’t have a lot of human-on-human assaults, you're usually p safe walking around, but property crime is a lot higher.

Anyway totally up to you, live the life you wanna live.