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Why own a car when you can hike to your mailbox for 99
weeks of UI, Section 8, cash assistance and a EBT card.
Of course, you can always do both.
One thing that always amazed me about driving byCabrini Green was seeing a parking lot full of cars. And satellite dishes hanging off the side of the building.
Fuel may well be expensive and running a car far from cheap but until it becomes possible to transport you and your family from your house to your destination, at a time that suits you, easier and cheaper than using a car then people are going to use a car...
I'd rather pay $7 per gallon of gas than use public transportation.
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Originally Posted by HandsUpThumbsDown
Yes god forbid you are in the presence of commoners.
Public transportation cost far more per person per trip than operating a private car. In Portland, the mecca of public transportation, each rail trip (average distance 11.8 miles) is subsidized at the rate of $20 per trip per person.
And, persons who use pubic transportation (pun intended) are persons with no where to go other than their simple trip to school or the public assistance agency.
People with dry cleaning and soccer practice and meetings and fitness clubs could not rely on public transportation other than along a very narrow corridor of East Coast megacities.
My Tracfone can't move all my belongings when my apartment lease is up. Nor does it take my coworkers across the plant with ease from parking lot to our BRB. But, it sure does make ME some cash when others use their phones to call ME to help them move.
On the plus side, my truck does NOT receive calls from telemarketers...
Yeah, go ahead and hide under your bed with your phone. Short of gas going 5x on us, I'm going to be fine. Cheap living, FTW.
"Hey Bobby Sue... go down to the barn and hitch up Thunderbolt and Little Guy to the wagon. We need some vittles from the country store, and Thunderbolt needs new shoes. Where is that cooper? I need those barrels for my moonshine. I need a new buggy whip too."
Remember those days?
'Traveling' by cell phone is about the same as taking a world tour by watching the 'Travel Channel'.
"Hey Bobby Sue... go down to the barn and hitch up Thunderbolt and Little Guy to the wagon. We need some vittles from the country store, and Thunderbolt needs new shoes. Where is that cooper? I need those barrels for my moonshine. I need a new buggy whip too."
Remember those days?
'Traveling' by cell phone is about the same as taking a world tour by watching the 'Travel Channel'.
Laugh all you want to but the "old days" that you ridicule are sustainable...the way we live today is not.
except you will never stop paying got one.. Makes no sense. We own all 3 of our cars and don't pay a cent every month .. And my every day car has been paid off for 5 years now.. And you are still paying.. for something you will never own
.............not to mention when you turn in a lease car the majority of the depreciation has taken place.
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