Could I do without a vehicle? Absolutely not.
The closest bus stop is about 1.5 miles away, right at the end of one of our farm roads. However, the bus is once weekly and doesn’t come back (the return journey from the nearest town takes a different route).
Then to get to my day job is a 60-mile round trip with no public transport what-so-ever. When at work, I often have to travel between labs, the furthest being at Defra, east of York – 26 miles away from my usual place of work (I do have business cover on my RSA/Motability insurance to cover these journeys). Again no public transport.
Then on nights when I am looking after the family farm, I have to go and check the stock etc which can entail about a 35 mile drive as we have stock off-site on lower pastures during the summer months. At lambing and calving time, I could be out all day and night in the car (I book leave from my day job)!
The supermarkets won’t deliver up here in a winter, and the local doctor/pharmacy is 14 miles away, so normal domestic travel has to be by car.
That is without going on national/international work travel or on holiday etc (in normal times anyway) where a trip over to Manchester Airport or upto Newcastle Airport on public transport is no go from here and a problem with luggage anyway.
In short, having a vehicle is not an option, it is an absolute necessity.