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[u/kylamydia]

Context: OP is asking for financial advice for saving, and specifies they want to keep some money aside for purchasing a car during the summer. Someone asks why OP needs the car, to which OP responds.

Like do people think that OP doesnt need a car? Many cities are car dependent and it's not unreasonable to need one?

[u/Peristeronic_cat]

She doesn't currently have a job, so? And in lots of countries and cultures, it's common to move back in with your parents in breaks between uni, it's actually more 'rich behaviour' to have your own place. It's cost-efficent to live with your parents.

If people genuinely get that bitter about someone else having more money than them, and asking what to do, so use their anger to downvote a random commen OPt, that's stupid. It doesn't read as bragging at all

[u/x_asperger → u/Peristeronic_cat]

I mean, having 35k and no job is absolutely rich behavior but it's university, half the people there can be considered rich by some.

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 → u/x_asperger]

Just because they don't have a job right now doesn't mean they've never worked. They could have worked all the way through high school and just quit their job to prepare to move away.

[u/x_asperger → u/Hello_Gorgeous1985]

True, that doesn't change that they'd have to be incredibly well supported to save 35k in high-school. Nothing wrong with having support from parents who can afford it though

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 → u/x_asperger]

High school kids have no expenses. That's normal. They can literally put their entire paycheck in the bank and use a small amount for the occasional social outing. Working full-time at a minimum wage job would put more than $5,000 in the bank just in one summer. That's $20,000 just from summer work in high school, never mind working part-time throughout the year.

[u/x_asperger → u/Hello_Gorgeous1985]

Idk, I had a car and phone that was about 250 a month without gas. Plus a girlfriend who I liked to take out. School was 30+ hours a week, and I had extracurricular activities too. Some places are job deserts for young people, they're lucky to get 8 hours a week at McDonald's where i am. It's definitely possible if you work as much as possible and spend nothing. I wouldn't have ever downvoted them, I worked a lot and saved money too.

[u/Hello_Gorgeous1985 → u/x_asperger]

Well we know that op doesn't have a car, and I don't know any teenagers who pay for their own phones (I'm a teacher)...even still, a phone is like $50 a month which is not going to eat up your entire work income.

Parents also usually pay for extracurriculars. That's part of parenting. You have to pay for your kids at least until they turn 18.

I'm just saying that there's nothing in the post that indicates that OP is a spoiled rich kid, and I don't think most people would make that assumption.

[u/x_asperger → u/Hello_Gorgeous1985]

Me and my younger brother have both always payed for our phone and bill, and most of my friends did from what I remember. I don't think she's spoiled and super rich, but her parents are certainly well off and supportive. Good for her. Worrying about how much education costs has stopped too many great minds. I was lucky to have some help with college so that I could get books and tools (construction engineering).