SoCal has the traffic volume to justify roads that large. Even with that many lanes, that road is still probably gridlocked most of both rush hours. In Detroit, there isn’t the traffic to justify it. There’s nothing down where 375 is that necessitates 7 lanes as-is. The sports stadiums are north of there along I-75,…

The Last Ninja was such a classic. Easily my fondest C64 memory...

Fair enough. I don’t have kids, so I’m not the most familiar with the exemptions they provide. Even taking that into account, an expense of over $700/mo on top of the other bills I listed puts the budget in the red, when you take into account that there are costs to life beyond what I added (clothes, medical,…

Who do you pay $30/mo for cell service through?

We’re about the same for water and trash. Electricity looks like I peaked at $137.97 this year, but I set pretty good habits about keeping usage as low as possible. Gas is what bites me during the winter, because my house was built in 1946, so the “insulation” is...yeah...so I get $150/mo in gas usage during the cold…

Of course not, they can’t afford to! ;)

I’m aware mean and median aren’t the same, but the ACS data doesn’t lend well to working with the mean income. The MoE is pretty large.

If I read Gerber’s statement correctly, it seems he considers the investors the core demographic of the company - not the people they’re selling cars to (who by and large genuinely struggle to make a nearly $50,000 new car “affordable” in their budget).

I mean look...just because he’s shorter than a 7 year old...

Does it do away with more than the sunroof, like the older TR (tuner ready) spec from the GD WRX era? Those were a bit miserable to live with, if you didn’t plan on adding a ton to them, if I remember right. Downgraded stereo and speakers, among other things, because you might want to install better ones anyway...

46-year-long running show... So, by your logic, Richard Hammond was hosting it when he was 7 years old? Hammond, Clarkson, and May were not the ones who “Originally hosted” it.

The fact that the term he used for her potential mate was, “steady partner” (as in the phrase “going steady”, which fell out of fashion in the 1960s), should tell you all you need to know about where (or more to the point when) this doctor is, as a person...

It’s awful how many accidents turn into the whole Southfield being a parking lot. No shoulders, concrete walls to pen them in... I’m amazed nobody’s done anything to make that road, or the Lodge, safer...

This opens up so many questions!

Am I the only one who’s surprised he’s complying, rather than just finding another country with less rules to follow to launch from?

Did you dig into the cost of living for those households? No, you didn’t. If you had, you’d see that it doesn’t support your view. $100k a year barely covers the bills in a large portion of the US, especially since the rent and housing prices went up in 2021. It has nothing to do with appearances, and everything to do…

As this site, and many others, have pointed out - the average car price is unaffordable to most of the American market right now.

The Leaf is impractical for most drivers that don’t live and work within the same small area.

For context, I work for a data analysis firm that exists to help people understand causes of poverty, and whether or not people can overcome them. You apparently don’t realize you’re talking about the upper 18% or so of Americans. The remaining 82% of us aren’t doing so well, by no fault of our spending.

If they weren’t vaporware, or so boutique they didn’t have to worry about crash safety regulations, Alpha theoretically makes some pretty interesting EVs.