This question bothers me for some time already: why can't you guys just buy a washing machine? Where I live everybody has one and we have salaries like 10x les

This question bothers me for some time already: why can't you guys just buy a washing machine? Where I live everybody has one and we have salaries like 10x less than they have in US. And also flats are mostly tiny. Taking you clothes somewhere to wash it sounds like first world nightmare to me.