The GC is actually quite an impossible place to live without a car. There isn’t really functional public transport. If you work and hang in your suburb exclusively, it’s probably fine, but suburbs are spaced quite far apart and you need to get on this one highway to travel between many areas. Traffic can be really bad. It weirdly seems to take 40 minutes to get anywhere by the time you get out on the highway and then back off. I don’t live there but I have relatives that do and the traffic and driving is painful for me when I visit — and I live in Sydney, which is hardly a driving paradise! I can see why they would find it a bit restrictive with just one car if they have separate places to be. I’m not saying Ellie isn’t privileged, just that I can understand it would be pretty inconvenient. Say if one of you had an appointment or you had to take the kids somewhere while the other was at work.