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Originally Posted by Hersbird
I pointed out my car is basically free with no depreciation the last 3 years, my insurance is $17 per month, and the liscense was $90 one time 3 years ago and good forever now. I change the oil once a year myself for $20. And it gets at least 27 mpg around town and 35 on the highway. Tires I haven't needed, or brakes, they were new when I bought it and still look 70% or so. Someday I would like to move 30 miles out, but I will wait until I'm retired or close to it. After commuting 40 miles a day from North of SF to Alameda, I swore never again. I would live in a dumpy apartment before wasting all that time and energy in a crowded freeway.
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I'm glad your old Subaru works for you. You don't seem to get that what it costs for you to operate a car in Montana has no relevance to what to it costs me to operate a car in Oregon. License fees for me are $48 a year regardless of the age of the car not a 90 one time fee. Insurance for me is $400 a year without comp or collision not $17 a month. I can't image that any Subaru that I could get for $3000 would get better than 20 mpg on my commute idling in bumper to bumper traffic for miles.
You also seemed to completely miss the fact that a cheap apartment close to my work does not solve my commuting problem because then my wife would then have a similar commute in the other direction. It is challenging for two working professionals in different fields to find jobs close together. We've tried it in 3 states to date and this is the closest our jobs have been.