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As a bike rider, I forget this is a thing. Asked my neighbor, he pays $350/month in insurance alone 🙃 (slrpnk.net)

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

$550 in car payments for a houshold is not unreasonable for the vast majority of households and usually doesn’t equate to frivolous spending.

I don't think I necessarily disagree with this but the reality is that when you buy new you're always paying more. When you buy new on credit, you're paying even more than that.

So, like I said in the beginning, I don't 100% agree with this dude about even this whole post. But it is cheaper to buy used and even pay for the maintenance. It's a point almost not worth making because of how obviously correct it is.