$300/month vs. $124/month seems like a ridiculous difference.
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$300/month vs. $124/month seems like a ridiculous difference.
When I first started driving, my insurance was about $250 per month. Now, it's about $80 per month. The difference is that staggering.Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
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Originally Posted by chrisnu
OK but how long have you been driving?
My sister's been driving on her own for just over a year. And she's had an accident.
Will my insurance drop more than half in that period of time?
I'm fairly certain, at least when my older brother was out there, you could not rent a car if you were under 21 in Colorado Springs. Main reason: Air Force Academy.
Why? Well, a lot of the boys were going to become pilots/fighter pilots, and what do fighter pilots like to do?
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Originally Posted by Scar
...hookers?
Insurance can also vary based on where you live. When I was living in a "bad" neighborhood, it was about $120 a month. I moved to a better neighborhood and it went down to $88 a month.
Yup. It's also cheaper if you have the navigational systems or the go network inside, because if it gets stolen, they can find your car.
Neighborhood, garage access, the type of job, distance from job to home, all of that comes into play.
Which sports car does your sister drive, Meg? Honda Civics are among the most stolen cars in America. I'm sure they present a much larger liability to insurance companies than any European sports car.
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Originally Posted by DavidSeven
:lol: You make it sound like she drives a Beemer or something.
It's a Saturn S. 2 door, red. It's qualified as being a sports car.
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1...urnsseries.jpg
That's pretty much exactly what her car looks like.
Ah. Well, the point still stands. Honda Civics are much more likely to be stolen than any Saturn. Especially if it's a 90s model.
About 9 years. The premiums went down significantly after I turned 21 (3 years driving), and again after I turned 25 (7 years driving).Quote:
Originally Posted by megladon8
Saturns are cheap to insure. Who the hell's gonna steal a saturn?
With that, I've owned one, and they are nearly impossible to steal. I locked my keys in it once, and it couldn't be jimmied (sp?) by a locksmith.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scar
Klingons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scar
I just put my Jeep down to liability, so for two vehicles and renters insurance I pay about thirty-five dollars a month. It is a bit of a sexist, agist racket...when I started driving insurance was almost as much as a car payment. The only way for it to get cheaper seems to be time. I understand, Meg. Nontheless, it seems like a hellova lot.
Probably dumb question, but have you shopped around?
Man, having a total blast at the roller derby bout.
So I've been pecking away at that "fictional USA" map I made a while back, adding cities, reworking stuff. Here's where I'm at, before I get into the laborious task of restructuring and adding to New England.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...-MayUpdate.jpg
Cicely, Alaska (Northern Exposure)
I think the word "profound" has been used to much in the English language. I think it should be only used when describing the act of a God thinking.
that's very profound.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winston*
Just booked my tx to Australia - I'll be there for the whole month of June. Really looking forward to it.
Can't wait to hang in the bars and watch World Cup!
And I'll get to meet up with the Cool Shite on the Tube guys at the Sydney Comic-Con, and hopefully sit in their podcast. That's gonna be sweet.
Just saw Vincent Gallo in a TV ad for a New Zealand beer. That tops Willem Dafoe and Harvey Keitel in TV ads for New Zealand beer in weirdness. We're the Japan of sinewy character actors who have shown their genitals on camera apparently.
I don't have a car.
I win.
My father changes his name every decade or so. I don't understand it. It would be so confusing-- my identity is strongly tied to my first name. That's not unusual, is it?
My father's birth name is Gilles Jean-Claude. He went by Gilles until his thirties, when he suddenly got angry at all the Americans mispronouncing it and started going by Jim. He was Jim well into his forties, then he did a turn-about and started going by Jean-Claude. Now, apparently, he's JC.
Wow, he liked Avatar that much?