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[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Spoken like an upper middle class person.

In fairness, it's often false thrift to move to an area you need a car with the hopes of saving money on rent... that all ends up going into the car. I hear you as someone born into poverty in a car centric place that this often isn't a choice, that's fair, but all else being equal my experience that needing to maintain a car was a constant albatross around our neck as a family. Once I moved to an area with good transit and didn't bother with a car, I could save way, way more money even considering higher rent...