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verdantbanana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

with used vehicles doubling in insurance costs not to mention maintenance how are current paychecks keeping up

plus taxes on said vehicles have increased even after deductions for milage it is still higher than before

how is anyone even purchasing new vehicles?

how the f#%k are we not in the streets

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guckfoogle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just be glad you don’t live in Detroit or you’d be shelling out close to $6000

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- M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Can’t have shit in Detroit.
  
  (also funny that the motor city is not a viable place to have a motorized vehicle)
  
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  - Techmaster@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    But the houses are $500
    
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    M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    With I would assume 500k of owed taxes or some other trap, like living in Detroit.
    
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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  But you shouldn’t have to have a car in Detroit. All of our cities need robust public transportation systems.
  
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  - vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yeah, having a here in the Inland Empire in California is one thing since we’re pretty spread out even if you increased density and public transit. But the major cities at minimum cars should be a luxury or something that sits in the garage half the time, and if its doing that it should also be quite small like those early 90s polish cars.
    
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CaptPretentious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Same boat. Insurance costs have been going up for the last few years. I tried to talk to them about it… they said ‘well everyone else is getting in accidents, you don’t even know!!! It’s crazy out there’. Same vehicle. My only ‘options’ were to let them install a bunch of tracking devices and software (fuck that) or reduce my coverage considerably.

Gosh I love the for profit insurance I’m forced to have that gets to dictate everything.

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