Sherry Taylor

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Q: A new study found that it costs the average American $345 a year to do this?

A: Find Parking

According to a new study, the average American wastes 17 hours a year looking for parking spots.  And in big cities it’s WAY worse.

New Yorkers waste 107 HOURS a year looking for parking, which is more than any other city.

The rest of the top five cities are Los Angeles, 85 hours . . . San Francisco, 83 hours . . . D.C., 65 hours . . . and Seattle, 58 hours.

When you factor in all that wasted time and gas, it costs the average American $345 a year to find parking.  And when we have to pay for parking, we actually OVERPAY to the tune of $97 a year.

Being that cautious pays off though.  The survey found the average American only gets about one parking ticket every five years.

The only two cities were people average more than one ticket a year are New York and Los Angeles.

(PR Newswire)

 

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