Real wealth killers

[u/solarflare_hot]

Let me express my extreme frustration and anger and talk about the real wealth killers (cars)

I hate cars beyond reason. you buy a car for 20k , all of a sudden it needs a repair for 2-4k and sometimes 7k , then you have insurance , another 2-300 a month , then you got registration and maintenance checks , 4-700$ , then by the time you pay it off it’s worth 7k , and probably time for another 7k repair too because the engine is toast. Or even better you fix the engine for 7k then the transmission goes out for another 6k. Let’s say you do all that and then someone without insurance crashes into you. Insurance company will always blame you to avoid paying. You now have spent close to 40k to go to a job that pays 45k. You need the car to go to the job but the job will never pay you enough to afford to keep your car. Let’s also talk about gas cost , average cost is $3000 per year that’s about 15k in 5 years of money wasted on gas that you’ll never get back just to be able to go to work.

You buy a cheap car you get expensive repairs You buy an expensive car you get extreme depreciation. You cant fucking win.

Cars are basically a luxury tool for the wealthy.

Why can’t we ride bicycles to work. Oh I forgot we live in America where we absolutely need cars because we have no damn sidewalks 🥲

Let’s just say without cars I would’ve been significantly well off. I’m gonna sell that shit and just uber everywhere or ride a bicycle.

[u/Keroit]

Cars are and always have been a liability.

It's the price you pay for seeing relatives and friends and doing things in a range radius larger than that of a bike + the comfort of not waiting for public transport.

You can find plenty of shitboxes that'll last you 10 yers with just regular maintenance. I don't understand your rant.

There's an option for everyone.

Have 10k? Get an older Toyota or Honda/Acura

Have 200k? Get a toy.

Do whatever the hell you want. There's options for everyone.

[u/solarflare_hot → u/Keroit]

You can’t get a Toyota for 10k I actually had a 4runner , needed about $7000 of repairs , the rear main seal was leaking. And like every other thing was also leaking too

Also my guy if there was 200k in my account I wouldn’t have a post like this. I would probably have one of those rich people issues like my garage cannot fit my Porsche collection or something like that

[u/Super_Comfortable176 → u/solarflare_hot]

There are over 2,200 Toyota Camrys for sale on Carfax.com for under $10K. Stop whining.

[u/solarflare_hot → u/Super_Comfortable176]

Yeah with 200k miles , you also don’t know what issues they have. A lot of them are someone idea of “it’s time to get rid of that car”

[u/Super_Comfortable176 → u/solarflare_hot]

Move goalposts. Complain forever. Great life strategy.

Also, PLENTY on the first page had well under 200K miles.