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[Anonymous No.55559628]

Is owning a car worth it?

[Anonymous No.55559648]

Kys

[Anonymous No.55559653]

No, and no return into your public transportation pod and be a good lil zoomie

[Anonymous No.55559734]

If you want to pull zoomer thots because so many 18yo boys are taking the "CARS ARE BAD AND THE DEVIL" pill that even a 20yo toyota sienna seems to impress them, especially if you can change the tires (secret lost knowledge).

[Anonymous No.55559765]

>>55559628
maybe if you're a wagie

[Anonymous No.55559779]

>>55559628
If your a wagie bugman who lives in a pod in the city, then no.

Otherwise, yes.

Verification not required.

[Anonymous No.55559873]

>>55559648
You kill your self fucking faghot.

[Anonymous No.55560189]

>>55559628
I'm more interested in the median price per mile, no way pic related is 0.58 a mile.

[Anonymous No.55560215]

>>55559734
>change the tires
Wait, that's it?
Do zoomers not know how to change a tire?
My dad taught me that when I was 13.
What else do zoomers not know how to do?

[Anonymous No.55560230]

>>55560215
Changing a lightbulb.

[Anonymous No.55560290]

>>55560189
0.58 probably is the median because the median car looks like this now

[Anonymous No.55561236]

>>55559628
How the hell do people drive 13500 MILES a year? I drive to work, back home on my lunch break, and back to work every day and usually to the rink or soccer field on weekends and I never crack 3000 miles in a year. Do people really commute like 50 miles to work every day???

[Anonymous No.55561696]

>>55561236
My workplace is 70 miles away, so 140 miles total a day. Luckily I only show up twice a week. I wouldn't be surprised if other ruralfags would put up with commutes like that every day.

[Anonymous No.55561811]

>>55561236
I'm a sparky and I have to drive 90 miles a day. I don't care how onions it is I want a 15 minute city. 3 hours of driving every day. Kill me

[Anonymous No.55561817]

>>55559628
Yes, only because I can afford my pickup and like to be able to travel pretty much anywhere in the continental U.S. if I like.

[Anonymous No.55561820]

I'm in Jew York, it's either this or taking the smelly homeless nigger and spic filled subway.

[Anonymous No.55561841]

>can commute to work/socialize/buy things further away i.e not just in a city with public transit
>allows you the benefit of living far away from undesirable races
>not waiting on someone else's schedule to go places
>don't need to share your transportation space with undesirable races
>older vehicles are still reliable and have a legion of professionals who will diagnose problems for you and fix them if you can't do it yourself
Not having a car is like being 13 years old again

[Anonymous No.55561870]

>>55559628
I am 27 and have had the same car for 9 year now. It was 2014 new @ 23k CAD. Resell value currently is 14k CAD. But I only have 108k km on it so maybe more. Never any issues. Own it outright for years now. I might swap it for a mazda 3 hatchback. But I don't care for cars and will drive it in to the sunset gladly.

[Anonymous No.55561895]

>>55561870
I was fortunate enough to work from 14 onwards worked two jobs over summers before graduating hs and bought it outright. Oops your loan is open? Kek not paying interest.

[Anonymous No.55562007]

I keep thinking how a century and a half ago it took my forefathers five to ten minutes to get from the front door to the field and start working. And a century ago it took twenty minutes from the front door to the factory.

Why do I have to spend an hour in my car to get to work? How can this be called progress?

[Anonymous No.55562014]

>>55559628
>just buy electric bro

[Anonymous No.55562023]

>>55561811
is the pay worth it at least?

[Anonymous No.55562039]

>>55559628
yes

[Anonymous No.55562040]

>>55559628
POV you live in a flyover state

[Anonymous No.55562061]

>>55562007
They had to service less people. Modern day companies need to service the world. To hold your own you need to service more people now than you did in the past. So economies need to be centralized to lowest cost trade routes. (Tech or physical). You have to work in centralized hubs to make your keep to serve the world since it's the only way it works. Logistics is still currently the largest problem humanity faces. Solve the travelling salesman problem. You solve this whole thing.

[Anonymous No.55562063]

take the shitbox pill. my family has 4 shitboxes, total cost 4500 dollars. there's another car but that's an expensive sportscar so it doesn't count.

[Anonymous No.55562108]

>>55559628
If you need it to get to work then yes, it’s not very useful if you’re a free man. in reality it’s just another burden to take care of. Just rent if you wanna drive somewhere, or just use a service. People always have a nice car and big house as their life goals but don’t realize their things end up owning them. If your house and car are a sizeable % of your networth and you can’t discard them at will then you’re trapped. No reason for the modern men to own anything when they have liquid cash in 2023. You’re not permanent so why own things forever? Few understand and most are still stuck hoarding things and being forced go maintain them.

[Anonymous No.55562135]

>>55562007
You don’t have to. Find a place closer to work and live there. Unfortunately in a lot of cases that means you either pay more or live in a place with nothing to do. Everything in adult life is a trade off.

[Anonymous No.55562139]

>>55560215
I’m 30 and drive a Porsche and don’t know how to change a tire

[Anonymous No.55562196]

>>55562139
as a man you are a failure

[Anonymous No.55562205]

>>55560215
change the oil

[Anonymous No.55562267]

>>55559628
If you live in an area where public transportation is shit, which is everywhere in the U.S. then yes it is worth it.

[Anonymous No.55562309]

Living in America outside of like NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco, or a few other older large cities without a car would be absolutely miserable and basically impossible to enjoy. I didn't own a car when I lived in NYC for 4 years and that was fine but then you have to live in NYC....

[Anonymous No.55562770]

>>55562023
Oh fuck yeah 54 an hour. I just hate conmuting

[Anonymous No.55562820]

>>55562205
>change tire
>change bulb
>change battery
>change oil
Literally what wagies are for. Only things worth changing myself is the wiper blades and air filter. It literally sits in a slot atop of my glove compartment

[Anonymous No.55562845]

vast majority of the per mile cost of operating a new car is depreciation. gas on a 30mpg car is about $.15 per gallon and usual maintenance about half that. they aren't THAT expensive to drive.

what is crazy though is that a tailwheel kit plane, especially if you can hangar it out in the stick on a grass strip, can be in the realm of what it costs per mile to operate a new car. that's 180kts (200mph) and 550 lbs of useful load on full tanks, with almost none of the headaches of dealing with other "drivers" (you can occasionally have issues with other pilots, but its extremely rare compraed to the daily nightmare that is dealing with other drivers).

you gotta build it yourself. and if you get sneaky and dip into your TBO money (or fail to put money in) you can get hit with massive bills. but overall man, these planes can cruise along at 200 mph and burn only 8 gallons an hour.

[Anonymous No.55562869]

>>55562820
That's the pollen filter retard

[Anonymous No.55562889]

>>55562007
this isn't entirely a car problem, this also is a problem with zoning rules and housing costs. but to even say problem isn't entirely correct, much of this is Working As Intended.

[Anonymous No.55562961]

>>55562869
No shit faggot

I don't fuck with the engine filter either. That's for the oil change wagies too while I'm in their office making free coffee

[Anonymous No.55562976]

>>55562039

[Anonymous No.55562985]

>>55562040
I've counted at least seven times so far this week some faggot shitlib redditor kept posting this fucking Facebook Boomer meme with shitty Photoshop.
Kill your fucking self.

[Anonymous No.55563140]

>>55559628
This image is only accurate if you are stupid enough to buy BMW's, buy used muscle cars, or god forbid buy anything made by Dodge

[Anonymous No.55563230]

>>55559628
My shitbox costs 41c/mil in fuel alone lol

[Anonymous No.55563466]

>>55560189

This, I drive a 20 year old car I've had forever, just can't be assed to upgrade and driving it until the wheels fall off. Not counting my labor I probably don't put more than $200-300 a year into maintenance and repairs. I'm losing basically no money to depreciation since it's already worth next to nothing. Liability insurance is relatively cheap. Main expense is gas which comes to about $0.18/mi since it's not an especially fuel efficient car.

[Anonymous No.55563567]

>>55562014
Yes, operative word is "BUY" not rent or rent to own or any of that BS meant to extract extra money out of you because you don't know how to manage your finances properly.

[Anonymous No.55563640]

>>55562108
Based and enlightened anon. I agree entirely. I'm even taking it to a crazy extreme as of two weeks from now: I'm moving to a low cost of living country in SEA. I am taking my backpack and a single checked travel bag. When I get there I will be renting a very small studio apartment. I will only have the clothes and gadgets that I bring in my luggage, a Japanese floor futon bed/mat, and a mediation pillow and mat.

It's gotten to the point now that I honestly want to push this minimalism stuff as far as is humanly possible. I've made it into a competition. kek.