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That is a shockingly cheap horse.
Ignoring lack of parking, slow travel and waste disposal, it's more like 3-6k if you already live on a farm. 5-10k if you board it with someone, and you'll likely need a car to get you to the stables.
A bicycle however...
Believe it or not, riding a horse while drunk is also an offense in many places.
Except you can't drink and ride a bike in many areas. I doubt most cops would enforce it though.
I had a friend back in my younger years who got a drinking and driving ticket on his bicycle. Around 1995.
I was drunk and high out of my gourd one night biking home along Bloor Street and got a ticket for speeding lol. This was maybe 2004. I have thankfully matured since then.
Wow, it's honestly my dream to get a speeding ticket on my bike. I saw my opportunity one day where there was a school zone and a cop, so I pedaled as fast as I could, but still didn't get pulled over. I even bombed down a hill doing almost double the speed limit, and still no ticket.
I'll get it one of these days.
If you do promise to be as incredulous as I was when he gave me the ticket. Like man don't you have better shit to be doing? Let's ignore the fact he thankfully didn't see me kicking rear view mirrors a couple of blocks previous because they were parked in the bike lane.
Jesus Christ I was an ornary youth lol
Oh, I absolutely would be. But you can bet I'm framing that ticket the moment I get home.
good luck, I believe in you. But be careful and wear a helmet for your attempts
You can in Germany. I only once fell into some bushes, but since I could not remember that it does not count.
US government will let you adopt a horse or mule per year for super cheap as long as you can care for them and can pick them up
My wife and I are considering a mule for tasks around our acre and it's less than getting most other animals
That’s all well and good, but I’ve spent years around horses and owners…long enough to know that I’d never want one, at least not one you’d actually intend to use for any sort of riding if I had a choice.
Animals that can be cranky, bite, kick, needs farriers, training, vet bills, meds, food, tack, trailer, shelter, stable, or barn, land to keep the horse healthy and not too confined, constant work for cleanup mucking stalls…
Every tike you want to go somewhere you hope the horse is agreeable, feet are ok, saddle it up when it maybe doesn’t want to go, get there at a leisurely walk (can’t gallop or trot the whole time), bring food and hope there’s water for the animal….etc. etc.
$1750 is not horse money. Not by a long shot. Not in the context of this hypothetical argument where one might trade a horse for a car. How many bags of groceries does one bring home on a horse? Oh, now we have to buy a wagon?
There’s a reason people traded these magical animals for cars.
I'm reasonably confident that my car cost considerably less than a horse would every year
Tbf a lot of these issues can be mitigated with good training. But yeah it's still more work than maintaining a car
Source : gf is a professional horse trainer