> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try It's an old beat up car with 150k miles that was given to them. She goes

> My bet is that your friend can't really afford a car but is well off enough to try It's an old beat up car with 150k miles that was given to them. She goes to Western North Carolina University. There are no buses, there are no sidewalks, every road is essentially a divided highway. It's not a lifestyle choice where they are living 50 miles away from where they work. Even then, the car was used to go to Hurricane Helene Relief volunteering, otherwise it's for groceries, and to take them to trail heads to hike. Even then, I'm speaking to the point that they have NO extra money. The lifestyle of burning $30/month in gas is not the point nor the issue.