If you are mechanically inclined you can fix a car with a busted engine or whatever for pennies on the dollar in the current market. New Tacoma's and what not are going for about $10,000-30,000 over MSRP so I hear. Which is fucking insane. I've never bought a new car though and never will unless I have the means to wipe my ass with Benjamin's.
Buying a new car is one of the dumbest purchases ever. Immediate huge loss of value the second you sign the paperwork. And it never goes up from there, typically, this finger fucked artificial market would make me eat my words. But it's totally artificial. Central government caused. Not the actual market value.
I never bought one until last year. My dad’s work used to sell the sales people’s cars instead of turning them back in after the lease was over, they’d sell them for pennies on the dollar. I got a 5 month old BMW for $7,000 because the idiot got a dui and fired.
Most were 2 years old and around $4,000-$5,000 and well maintained, the only requirement was you couldn’t resell them for 3 years. Then he died and that ended and I drove the other car I bought for 10 years. I paid roughly $500 a year in repairs and maintenance better then a car payment.
Then me and my GF got huge bonuses last year and decided for once we’d get a new car and got one and paid by check, if you bring cash they have to report you to the IRS lol. I was going to bring cash until they flipped out about the extra paperwork. If I draw money out and bring it in what’s the difference then bringing in a check for the same amount and them transferring the money.
Our house is paid, we have no bills, our credit cards are set up for bills and to pay the balance in full 7 days before the due date so we don’t get charged interest. We have savings and hopefully can move in the next few years as Oregon becomes a bigger shit hole by the day.
This car will last us hopefully 15 years or it’s back to used and I hate dealing with car dealers.
Oregon huh? What do you think about those counties trying to become Greater Idaho?
I purposely checked them out on a somewhat recent road trip because of that. I'm a coastal person by desire but not by politics. Cali born and raised. What it was, the jewel of America, not what it is today.
I think I must’ve talked to you before or someone else who went to the red part of the state. There was an article here of some guy who went on a road trip of Oregon and it was so exaggerated and I was pointing out the exaggerations and someone said they recently traveled through the red parts.
I love how they carve out greater Idaho and leave Bend lol. I wish greater Idaho took all of Oregon except Portland, Eugene and Corvallis, those are the major liberal strong holds, two of them are college towns.
I love the Oregon coast it’s brutal and always raining, I wish it would rain here all year.
We have cabins over there about 20 minutes from the cascades, I really don’t like the desert but at least it’s the high desert part without the scorpions, rattle snakes and black widows and cools off after the soon goes down. It’s one of our “safe zones”, we have one in a close red state also.
Oregon is in no way what it once was either, it’s about 10 years behind California. Total NPC land, but its 40% conservative which you wouldn’t be able to tell.
Also it sounds like you are talking about California SMOG laws. Which I unfortunately have to work around as well.
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