I have a car but I have too much money! What am I doing wrong?
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/uj I mean, they aren’t entirely wrong with car ownership sometimes being very costly with unpriced externalities. However, telling someone that’s struggling financially and needs work to just “live without a car” is wild! lol
If you live in a city, sure. Anywhere else though, no.
To be entirely fair ever since covid the car prices have been RIDICULOUS. They’ve been double what they normally cost. With all these 60-100k trucks, dealers are absolutely out of their damn minds. Cars (like housing) are in a massive bubble right now. The average American home went from 250k to 450k post pandemic. The average new car went from 28k to 50k post pandemic. Its obscene. But we can’t just blame “cars” for the price of cars. We need to blame the government for inflating the currency and letting hedge funds create a stock bubble, a realty bubble and an auto bubble
/uj I bought my car in June 2020 because the sales/deals were absolutely bonkers and dealerships were desperate to sell once they were allowed to re-open from lockdown and a month and a half of closure (this is in New York where we got slammed by Covid and deaths). I'd been planning to finally buy once the time was right and BOY was the time right then. The car I bought had 21,000 miles on it, and now has 41,000, and the dealership pesters me every quarter or so like "you SURE you don't want to sell it back to us and buy something new?" I promise bro, you can pry this low-cost, low-mileage car from my cold dead fingers. I'd hate to try and buy a car now.