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Oh, you're right, I guess on the one hand I'm from the happiest barracks so to speak, but what I meant to say that there it wasn't uncommon to know people with cars, it wasn't some "you have to be a politician or CEO equivalent" thing, more like a "most people don't have one, but they do know someone who has one".
TBH it feels like it was similar than trying to save up for a house from zero for young people now. It's not entirely unrealistic, but the average person won't get there.
The peeps I know were teachers and they did own a car, the same car over 30 years though. There were no traffic jams though.
Having a Western car though, that was the real shit. I knew someone who had a VW Golf in the 80s, now for that you had to be high in the pecking order.