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[oneiriad]

Today the mailman brought me a piece of plastic. Creditcard-sized, the ugliest pinkish-purple colour I have ever seen, very wavy. In one corner there is DK surrounded by the EU stars, below it me in black and white. On the back it says that it expires in 2052.

I have a driver's licence :-) Yay.

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[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

A car? Me? No. Have you any idea what those things cost? Come on, be serious, will you? Seriously, I probably couldn't afford one even if I had a job, and I doubt you could either if you lived in Denmark. I'll be borrowing my parents', when they are not using it, though...

[drbillbongo.livejournal.com]

Well, my car cost about 6000 Euros, but I only had to pay about 2000 Euros myself... I'm sure there are some cheap ones out there! Or is Denmark really so expensive?
But if you don't really need one and can borrow your parents' car, that's perfectly fine. :)

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Expensive? Denmark? Trust me, yes. Very. Oh, I could probably get a car for those 6000 Euros - maybe not a big or new and fancy car, but a car. It's not the price of the car that would ruin me. In fact, looking around, I find places claiming that the Danish car prices are the lowest in Europe.

It's the taxes that kill you. The registration and all that. Take the price of the car, then nearly triple it. I found this price level comparison table - it's in Danish, I'm afraid, but still. http://www.ks.dk/publikationer/konkurrence/2001/autobranchen/autobranchen-30/ It's the table at the bottom of the page - first column is prices before tax, second column is after. Everything is in percentages, although that should be obvious. Oh, and Germany is called Tyskland in Danish, in case you didn't know.

So - in case there was any doubt - unless I really need a car of my own, I'll just stick with my parents' :-)

[drbillbongo.livejournal.com]

o_O OMG. That sucks. But unless you don't really need a car... :)