• NickwithaC@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      Owning a car is such a con. Between car payments, the price of fuel, insurance, upkeep, parking charges, I’m glad I live in a city with good public transit. I feel bad for people who have to rely on a car.

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        28 days ago

        Cool. Not everyone gets to live in such a city. And those of us who live public transits cities city, want to leave it sometimes. That requires a car.

        And most cities with public transit are unaffordable for middle class people. They are fantastic if you make well over 100K a year, but if you make 40-60K, forget it.

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                26 days ago

                rental costs at the airport are 200-300% of those at non-airport rental locations.

                you dont’ rent cars, clearly. you are just making up nonsense. i rented cars for years before i gave up and bought a car, because owning a car was CHEAPER than renting one 2-3 times a month and dropping like $150-200 on every rental.

                car renting is a PITA process. 1/3 of the time you don’t even get the car you booked, you get a ‘similar model’. you also need to pay for insurance would more than doubles the rental cost.

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          27 days ago

          I make less than 15k a year but I live in Berlin. I guess I made the right decisions and also got somewhat lucky (not to be born in the US for example). But I guess in the US there would be other possibilities.