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More Than 80 Percent Of Americans Can’t Afford New Cars (jalopnik.com)
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[–] 29 points 3 years ago* (8 children)

People living in Central/Eastern Europe: 80%? Amateurs.

I don't know ANYONE who has a new car produced in last couple of years here in Poland. According to some statistic average age of car is 15.5 years here, in fact I drive 11 year old car myself. There's just no way I am going to dump so much cash on a freaking car (and personally I'd rather buy some nice electric bicycle instead).

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    and personally I'd rather buy some nice electric bicycle instead

    This is exactly the reason I bought a new and good bike for the price of a used car. And what's more is that the exercise that comes with it is free and the insurance is exponentially lower.

    We really need to make more bike friendly infrastructure around the world so more people have the same option as I have.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'd love to live and work somewhere where I could bike. The distance to my current job would be doable for me but there is zero bike infrastructure to make it feasible.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    hard fucking agree. we need to infiltrate the road design manual committees and get it written in that it's mandatory to have protected bike lanes on any road with more than 4 lanes of traffic and not a freeway

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    481K new cars were sold in Poland in 2022, so it definitely happens. Sure, that's 3 times fewer than in France (which has twice the population, though), but it's far from "anyone".

    And yes, I know you said you "don't know" anyone who bought one, not that they don't exist, but I take your meaning to be that it doesn't happen/is very rare.

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