re: Do you ever escape the churn of worrying about money?

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When you were at job 2 and the car died, you didn't need a car payment. You could've bought a $2000 used car with cash and been done.

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The used car market is outrageous right now for anything that is going to run reliably. I drive a 20 year old car that is getting close to needing to be replaced. I want my next car to be something that'll last me for at least the next 7-10 years, so I was looking at stuff with less than 50,000 miles. I don't care about bells and whistles. The only criteria I had was something that runs, has a clean title (no salvages), and has less than 50K miles.

I didn't find anything for less than $16.5K.