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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am blown away on these threads at how many poor people have cars, and can afford gas and repairs.  When I was poor, I never had a car. [/quote]

If you lived in a rural area without public transportation, a car of some kind is necessary.  It's not just people in urban areas that are poor.[/quote]
Yes and no. Live in a small town where work, school and store is within walking or biking distance. It's not even the car that is expensive,e it's the insurance for the poor, ticket, upkeep, gas.[/quote]

When I was a poor kid, I was a poor kid in a rural area where almost nothing was in walking distance of anything else and there was no public transportation of any kind. We had a car because otherwise we would have had to walk 5 miles to grocery store, school, my dad’s work, etc. One of the first things I bought myself after I started working (15) was a cheap shitty car so that I had more options about work and socializing. It was $1000 for a 1982 Nissan Sentra. This was in 1997. I sure as hell didn’t have insurance for stretches of time. It was all I could do to keep up with registration fees and gas money and my parents were in no position to help me out. But having that car allowed me to get to and from an internship in a larger town a 40 minute drive away and that helped me to get other paying jobs outside the service and retail industries. Truthfully it’s probably why I went to college instead of getting married right out of high school. [/quote]

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