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Yeah, it was kinda worse than that, my mom was on Section 8, and had a 2 bedroom apartment for free, I was supposed to be able to live there till I was 23 (when my brother would have turned 21), because she still claimed him as well, even though he had been put in the system when I was 11 and he was 9.

She kicked me out so she could rent my room. She never took care of me or my brother, but it still basically caused me to withdraw and live on rooftops and not socialize much for a year. My uncles wedding broke me out of that, and I joined the AF on my 17th birthday.

Anyway buying a new car unless you have plenty of money is really a bad investment. My first car I got for $1000 (waaay back in 91 or 92? When I was 19). It was a Licoln continental and it was AWESOME. I got it up to 140 multiple times lol. Drove it all over for years before it broke down. Me and my wife bought a used (but not that used) 1999 Toyota Avalon in 2001 I think it was, That car was amazing, we put like 100k miles on it. Never had to have any work done on it till the end (then had to get the belt replaced which was $1000, and the drivers side door snapped and that was another $1000.

My current car is a Saturn, I've had it almost 4 years now. I don't drive it a ton, but have had no work done on it, other then oil changed in all that time. Bought it for $4k.

Basically you can buy decent cars for $2k-4k that won't need work done on them and are reliable to get to and from work. You don't have car payments and you don't have much higher insurance costs.

And that is saying you even go with having a car, which onestly, if your working min wage oo 15$ an hour or so, you can probably get without needed a car for transportation (at least to work). With uber etc, it's often cheaper (depending where you live) to use that occasionally when public transportation isn't an easy option.

But shrug, I'm just saying it's doable, you don't have to convince me that most young people have lots of other stuff they spend money on, llke I said, all my friends did. It's not a generation thing, it's an age thing, most people have a hard time saving money in their 20's and often even in their 30's unless they are making significantly more then the cost of living.

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