Do UMC parents buy their adult kid a car after college?

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Anonymous wrote:No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.

+100 Mine is heading to NYC. No car is needed. We will furnish the apartment instead.

All those posh apartment buildings in Brooklyn have garages.

Yeah…so do Manhattan buildings but few people without kids are paying $1000+ per month to garage a car that gets used almost never. Also, most of those garages are for people parking overnight that don’t even live in the building.

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Who would want a car in NYC? You cannot use it. if you take it out, you have to pay to park wherever you are going, so you sit in traffic for 30 mins and pay $40-50 to park it. It's easier and cheaper to uber both ways.

And after the $500+/month to pay to park, you also can add $500/month for insurance. Much easier to just rent a vehicle when you want to drive somewhere outside the city for a vacation or such

Not to mention the tolls are like $20 just to cross the bridge.

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The typical Manhattanite or even Brooklyn typically do not have cars. It's simply not worth the $$$, stress and hassle.

Last time I was in NYC, took Uber from LGA to Times Square area. Once we entered NYC at midtown tunnel, it was over an hour to go 1.8 miles to the hotel. It could be walked in 35 mins easily. Had we not had tons of luggage (moving kid out from college, so several large suitcases) I would have defiantly ended the trip and walked (or taken the subway). Why would anyone drive there own vehicle in that mess??!!? (hint, they dont')

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.

Wow, what a bubble you live in. I have never lived anywhere in my adult life without a car, and neither have most people I know.

I lived in D.C. without a car for more than a decade (and we went another decade after that with only one car despite having two kids). Cars are very expensive to acquire and maintain. I'm not sure not having a car is as much of an indicator of some kind of privileged bubble as you think it is.

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Anonymous wrote:No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.

Wow, what a bubble you live in. I have never lived anywhere in my adult life without a car, and neither have most people I know.

I lived in D.C. without a car for more than a decade (and we went another decade after that with only one car despite having two kids). Cars are very expensive to acquire and maintain. I'm not sure not having a car is as much of an indicator of some kind of privileged bubble as you think it is.

The bubble I was referring to was thinking all kids want to "move to cities where they won't need one." Lots of kids don't want to move to cities after college or attend college in a city. I spent exactly one summer interning in Rosslyn and that was enough to turn me off for life, as a suburban kid. Hard pass.

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I never wanted a car in my 20s. I preferred to live close in and walk or take public transit everywhere

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Anonymous wrote:No our kids ended up in dense urban areas like NYC, London and Paris and didn't require cars. They use a car service

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Most well off 20-somethings we know have a car. If money is no object, why wouldn’t you have one? The extra parking fee and a Tesla lease payment is an insignificant sum of money to a rich family. Even if you use car service most of the week, it’s nice to have a car. In Florida Texas and Southern California everyone has a car.

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I’m MC so my kid didn’t get a car until this year when he was 19 and it was my 10 year old Corolla. I bought a new one and he knows this is the only one he’s getting. He pays for insurance, gas, and maintenance.

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No. My parents helped me with rent though so I could take low paying entry level jobs but still live in a decent apartment building in NYC.

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People buy their kids cars. It’s not an UMC thing. It’s a parent thing.

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Anonymous wrote:No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.

Wow, what a bubble you live in. I have never lived anywhere in my adult life without a car, and neither have most people I know.

I lived in D.C. without a car for more than a decade (and we went another decade after that with only one car despite having two kids). Cars are very expensive to acquire and maintain. I'm not sure not having a car is as much of an indicator of some kind of privileged bubble as you think it is.

Apparently he doesn’t know any city people.

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Anonymous wrote:People buy their kids cars. It’s not an UMC thing. It’s a parent thing.

MC parents don’t have the money to send their kids to college and afford to buy their kids cars. These days, that’s getting harder for even UMC families.

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Kids drove hand me down cars in high school. Oldest was given a fully paid brand new car for college graduation. Youngest will receive the same gift unless they end up in Manhattan.

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Anonymous wrote:People buy their kids cars. It’s not an UMC thing. It’s a parent thing.

MC parents don’t have the money to send their kids to college and afford to buy their kids cars. These days, that’s getting harder for even UMC families.

Not true. I took loans for college, my parents never made above $60k combined and they still bought me a used Corolla. This was pretty common in our very middle class area. Kids needed (cheap) cars to be able to work. There were no busses or metro trains.

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Anonymous wrote:No because most of these kids want to move to cities where they won't need one and it would just be a pain.

+100 Mine is heading to NYC. No car is needed. We will furnish the apartment instead.

All those posh apartment buildings in Brooklyn have garages.

Yeah…so do Manhattan buildings but few people without kids are paying $1000+ per month to garage a car that gets used almost never. Also, most of those garages are for people parking overnight that don’t even live in the building.

+1000

Who would want a car in NYC? You cannot use it. if you take it out, you have to pay to park wherever you are going, so you sit in traffic for 30 mins and pay $40-50 to park it. It's easier and cheaper to uber both ways.

And after the $500+/month to pay to park, you also can add $500/month for insurance. Much easier to just rent a vehicle when you want to drive somewhere outside the city for a vacation or such

Not to mention the tolls are like $20 just to cross the bridge.

+1

The typical Manhattanite or even Brooklyn typically do not have cars. It's simply not worth the $$$, stress and hassle.

Last time I was in NYC, took Uber from LGA to Times Square area. Once we entered NYC at midtown tunnel, it was over an hour to go 1.8 miles to the hotel. It could be walked in 35 mins easily. Had we not had tons of luggage (moving kid out from college, so several large suitcases) I would have defiantly ended the trip and walked (or taken the subway). Why would anyone drive there own vehicle in that mess??!!? (hint, they dont')

The super rich have cars for when they leave the city. They also have private garages under their townhouses or even car elevators. Also some parts of Queens and Brooklyn are more suburban and cars are more common. But Manhattan for the most part is carless.

My daughter doesn’t even have a driver’s license. She knows the subways by heart and takes Ubers. She did recently get her permit. I drove with her in Astoria and I hope she never needs to drive. It was bad.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People buy their kids cars. It’s not an UMC thing. It’s a parent thing.

MC parents don’t have the money to send their kids to college and afford to buy their kids cars. These days, that’s getting harder for even UMC families.

Not true. I took loans for college, my parents never made above $60k combined and they still bought me a used Corolla. This was pretty common in our very middle class area. Kids needed (cheap) cars to be able to work. There were no busses or metro trains.

It is very much a middle class thing to buy your kid a used car or their old car.