@Leucrotta like, since you've got a car, and also more space at home than we do, you aren't /already/ bleeding $5 or so every day as it is. Which makes random impulse buys less painful, even though intellectually it "shouldn't".
@Leucrotta (well, I mean, you might be, but probably not on transit)
(also you have the aforementioned car insurance and stuff; oh and rent; our biggest recurring cost is our phone bill. It's mostly the transit that's hitting us.)
@frost the rent is ouchy since it jumps up something like $80 every year (so a $960 increase annually overall), and this place hasn't changed a damn bit. Car stuff gets weird; with car, you get car insurance plus gas money but you also can get places pretty easily, and when there's work, it's definitely worth the expense. I wish it weren't all so fucking crippling, and that I could actually manage to save up some.
@Leucrotta whoof...
and yeah having a motorcycle is gonna be SO freeing once we can get our paws on one (and the training, and the safety gear...).
(Still probably cheaper than a car I'll bet.)
@Leucrotta I wasn't even thinking about just cost to commute to work but the motorcycle will probably beat public transit there /handily/, 'specially since BART doesn't have any sort of monthly pass.
@Leucrotta fuuuck car insurance.
...also even though we also don't have a job, our whole situation of "getting out of our single room costs $5+ every time" kinda screws with the economics of stuff like this, huh.