FeedNext item on the list: Getting a car
Friday, March 21 2008
Need a car. Need a car for the first time in my life 
So the recap is that since my teens I have this ‘you are grown up if you have the following items …’
Last outstanding item on this list is owning a car. Sadly.
But after living in SF for a 1,5 years, the conclusion is I/we need a car. We have rented cars so often at occasions, the $$ are piling up without us getting the benefit of the 24/7 access.
Public transporting in SF is alright but it is too limiting. And also, anyone with some money owns a car so the people on the Muni is either politically motivated, very poor, weirdos and homeless = kind of extreme people on there. I have seen a homeless piss in a crowded bus, a rat almost showed in my face. All that stuff makes muni-riding unpleasant, unpredictable in bad way.
So a car it will be. I have a few don’ts regarding this too. I don’t like driving American cars, instinctively once I sit them it just feels so wrong. I don’t like these big fuck off cars either. If these cars don’t have a utility usage for them, then I think they are completely unnecessary.
Plus to state the obvious, gas prices will only go one way and that it up-up-and-UP.
An European or Japanese car is what I am after. Most likely it will be a 2nd hand car. Even though new cars in the US are waaaay cheaper then in the UK, at the moment we don’t have that kind of money. If a car cost £20,000 in the UK, then the it will probably cost in the US $20,000 and just remind you £1 = $2
Next thing to decided is lease or buy …. but that is for another post.
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:24
U are strangely consistent in writing blog. Good Gal..In more than one way u make me jealous. Well i will live with it. Infact i will add one more reason to envy you and that will be ur CAR.
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:23
Oh Lizzie,you MUST get a gas guzzler,the bigger the better.Take advantage of relatively low gas prices in the US.
In your own words, you don’t use a car very often,so follow the American way,buy a beast!
March 25th, 2008 at 19:21
Jay - it is? I thought the timing of my posting was random. Don’t be envious (that was not my intention), you have so many possibility living in India at this point of time when the economy is expanding so quickly.
Ian - heh … sounds like you are a PR rep from a oil company
The thing is if I can’t go for a too small car. I have to consider the possibility what if I am in accident with one of those big fuck off cars. Like if I had a Smart car (not sold in the US), it would be as thick as a stamp.
March 26th, 2008 at 6:51
Hit the nail on the head Lizzie,
I do work for an oil company, have done for 35 years!!
March 26th, 2008 at 9:51
Aha
You have the best job-security ever. Until the very last drop of oil is pumped up, there are always going to a need someone to do the job.
Even if there are enough nuclear power plants to supply all home with the juice, still need the oil for production of things, cars & planes.
Don’t think the same goes for the workers for big fuck off cars … these things will soon be unselected by the market … eventually.