OT: Scaredycat scared to buy car

[briansd1]

[quote=squat250]above article exactly expresses how i felt when i left NYC forever in 1988.[/quote]

1988 was the wrong time to leave NY. That was the tail end of the time to buy cheap real estate in NY.

[Coronita]

delete.

[scaredyclassic]

1988 i think i had exactly 358.00 in thebank

[svelte]

[quote=flu]
Are we talking about the same NYC? Where people think if you don’t make close 1/2 million by the time you’re 30 and are single and have to live in the burbs, you’re not cutting it? NYC, where the entire economy pretty much revolves around wall street and Manhattan?
[/quote]

Or the same NYC where your neighbors get to vote on whether you can buy an apartment in their building? That’s what kills us – talk about snobbery.

[quote=spdrun]
I live in NYC.
[/quote]

Ahhhh, the ‘tude makes much more sense now.

[spdrun]

The building’s board (generally not all residents) voting on whether you can buy is true for NYC, at least for most co-op buildings. Generally not condos. Criteria vary from “basically financially solvent – i.e. 10% down and 2 years PITI in the bank” to the absurd, the latter being much more rare.

However, the basic process actually makes a lot of sense — it keeps the jokers who want to buy with 105% financing out of the game. This has kept the foreclosure rate in Manhattan very close to zero. It’s a matter of self-protection rather than snobbism, since insolvency of a co-op board could potentially result in foreclosure of the entire building.

BTW, imagine if condo boards and HOAs in CA would have been able to reject buyers based on crazy financing methods back in 2005 – a lot fewer people may have been burned.

[briansd1]

The Camry is a new model for the year. It’s a cleaner design than the Accord.
Wonder what the price difference is.

[scaredyclassic]

im prejudiced against the camry because i dont like the word camry.

i do like the words Accord and Civic.

i despise the word corolla. I am all right with Supra.

I always felt that Prelude was somehow sexual…like foreplay.

Odyssey is all right, but i always think homer’s odyssey, and it makes their minivan seem dangerous.

Sienna strikes me as wrong.

I also hate the word prius. lexus and i also despise pretty much any made up word

[spdrun]

Camry is also idiot-o-matic only, Accord/Civic can be had with a real gearbox.

Prelude sounds like Quaalude to me.

[briansd1]

[quote=squat250]im prejudiced against the camry because i dont like the word camry.

i do like the words Accord and Civic.

i despise the word corolla. I am all right with Supra.

I always felt that Prelude was somehow sexual…like foreplay.

Odyssey is all right, but i always think homer’s odyssey, and it makes their minivan seem dangerous.

Sienna strikes me as wrong.

I also hate the word prius. lexus and i also despise pretty much any made up word[/quote]

I’m I agreement but I like the made up words like Prius and Lexus. Marketing genius really.

Squat, did you get stick or auto?

[mike92104]

[quote=squat250]why is my ipod not maneuverable when plugged into the car. it just plays. won’t let me move around. I’ve just been going straight through 4,459 songs on the shuffle…[/quote]

Are you supposed to control it via the car’s stereo?

[scaredyclassic]

yes, through the stereo, i figured it out. thanks…

this is not a manual transmission, sacrifices had to be made to get a deal.
$17,919 with a last-minute negotiating concession from the dealer.

The only manual i could find was a much higher trim model, would have been thousands more, for no rational reason.

I hope this is the last car I ever buy ever.

It’s very large and long. Kind of could use one of those back up cameras. It is difficult to tell where it ends when you’re in it. I could tell exactly where my 1989 honda civic ends; the rear bumper is practically flush with the rear window.

The hood end is very visible in the civic; in this car, it’s out there, somehwere….

this car is more like a big boat.

my fall commuting plan is to go with my kid to his h.s. with my bicycle, then have him drive home and me ride home…

[patb]

[quote=spdrun]

Lastly, I’m not sure if I could cut it in the CA job market. A lot more of the jobs require letters after your name, whereas the attitude here is that if you can do it and have good references, you’ll get paid to do it.[/quote]

It doesn’t require a PhD to steal, which is what 90% of the NYC Metropolitan economy is based upon

[patb]

1) Modern lockup trransmissions are really close to a manual in efficiency

2) Paddle shifters and shift control lets me do what i need, when I want to play with the ratios.

3) an automatic is needed if you spend any time in traffic, a manual will work you to death. There is a reason Cabbies won’t do manuals.

[patb]

1) Modern lockup trransmissions are really close to a manual in efficiency

2) Paddle shifters and shift control lets me do what i need, when I want to play with the ratios.

3) an automatic is needed if you spend any time in traffic, a manual will work you to death. There is a reason Cabbies won’t do manuals.

[spdrun]

(1) – that’s not the point

(2) – thlappy paddleth don’t give you control over the clutch.

(3) – only if you’re a fattie with bad knees or a weak little lady. I drive a car with a real transmission in NYC traffic and it’s not a problem.

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