If you commute 6 miles a way, 2 ways a workday, 20 workdays a month for 12 monthes a year on 278.04 gallons of gas, you're getting 10.35 mpg. This is not good mileage. I suppose it's more likely that your daily commute is a small fraction of your total travel.
For the opposite extreme, I live in Manhattan, where $1248/y gets me unlimited subway and bus. Add a few hundred for visiting friends and family scattered around the country. Yes, I'm paying about $30k/y for a (rather nice) one bedroom apartment, but that's my only big expense.
For the opposite extreme, I live in Manhattan, where $1248/y gets me unlimited subway and bus. Add a few hundred for visiting friends and family scattered around the country. Yes, I'm paying about $30k/y for a (rather nice) one bedroom apartment, but that's my only big expense.