Found my 'dream car' and want to buy it, wondering if its a good idea.

Foke browse where I live. My family and I look for cars all the time around here. Everyone wants top dollar $10k for their rustbucket truck from the 70's with 120k miles on it. I live under Atlanta GA, it's it's rediculous. And if you buy a car out of state you have to pay a tax to bring it back and register it here and all that crap too... Life just seems so impossible. And I'm imagining how people who move out at 20 or even 18 even manage. HOW is that even possible when minimum wage can't even buy you food, let alone rent! I get $9/hr which comes down to $7.56 after taxes and fees and junk. I only have medical insurance through my father which is good until I'm 23 because of military dependency, and I'm trying to get better pay and everything put together to be independent by then so I don't have to worry about being trapped at home because of everything when I'm 28... But it all just seems so impossible. No one wants a 20 year old at a position that makes $30k/year. They just want to abuse the naiveness that comes with not having decades of experience.

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