Have you ever lived in the suburbs?  Only owning one car would be impossible.  My mother and dad both work 30 miles away from the house and 20 miles from each other's job.  I go to school 20 miles from our house and 10-20 miles from them.  Everything's 30 minutes away in a car.  Considering the pathetic public transit around here, how do you suggest we manage with one car?  Plus, what about auto enthusiasts like myself?  My dad has two cars, a Jetta TDI for the daily commute and a E36 M3 for weekends.  He loves cars and driving great ones, but he recognizes that a sports car doesn't typically get the best gas mileage.  Maybe one car is okay in an urban environment, but elsewhere it just doens't work.

@Rubang: And I thought my last girlfriend was awesome for liking anime and korean pop music...  I'm jealous.

RubangB, don´t worry, be happy!!! maybe she starts to buy the games you want. The only problem is when she likes just buy fitness and animalz games.

You must be scared when she likes buy HVS "animales de la muerte" (animals of death) kill zoo animal turned in zombies is a bad sign, ¿or not?

I used to live in the suburbs, and then I lived in the city but worked in the suburbs.  I had 2 jobs and went to school, without a car.  I rode 1 train and rode 2 buses each day, or sometimes 2 trains and 1 bus.  All my transportation cost me $47 a month for a monthly train and bus pass.

Public transportation isn't really a hassle, especially if you have any reading or homework or portable gaming that needs to get done.  I used to beat most of my DS games on the train.  There are usually user-friendly web sites that can map your whole trip out for you.  And might I recommend finding a cheaper hobby during simultaneous global economic and global food crises?

Oh I'm not worried about it.  I bought Wii Fit for myself and she doesn't even use it.  The last games we played together were Umbrella Chronicles and the first couple hours of Final Fantasy 6.  I got her to play Turtles in Time, River City Ransom, and Streets of Rage 2 with me, but she wasn't into oldschool beat 'em ups.  She loves Twilight Princess and SoulCalibur 2, and apparently is really hyped for MadWorld.  I've never seen her hyped for a game before it came out.  This game could be huge.

We have no trains here.  Well, unless you want to go from Cary to Charlotte, but that's 3 hours away and entirely useless.  Busses are pathetic here.  There aren't any that go from my suburb to the big city.  I really don't see how it's that expensive of a hobby.  Over 10 years you may put $30,000 in it if you buy the right cars that don't depreciate much and take care of it like you should.  That's $3000 a year, and a lot of people spend more than that on gaming alone.

Edit: My suburb is centered around a city with a population of 380,000.  This is not Los Angeles or New York City by any means.

Solid get brah.

My fiancee never played video games until I got Rockband, she gets pissed if I wont play with her and made me preorder RB2. She always chooses the same songs and is obsessed with ranking higher on leaderboards. She even convinced me to try the endless setlist on RB2 which is 80 songs straight. -_- my wireless cut out around 20 songs in and kicked us off the game lol.

$30,000 over 10 years??? How did you come up with that?

Not trying to be a party pooper but ultra violence isn't a hardcore make at least not a hardcore gamer. Now if she tlold you to pre-order FFIV for the DS or pick it up then and there, then proceeded to beat the game without ever remembering to save... that's hardcore; very hardcore .

Assuming you buy a car that doesn't depreciate much, and you get a new one every 3 years, it's reasonable.  I'd say my dad's average fun car is about $18,000.  Going off the latest one, it depreciated about $2500 in 3 years.  That means that by the tenth year, you'd be on your third car.  So you'd end up spending $2300 with about $900 (rounding up) in depreciation in the last year, so 23900 total.  That leaves $6000 for maintenance (which doesn't run you that much when you do most yourself), insurance, and the occasional mod.

google map says its .2 miles from a place i go alot and i drive everytime.... i really hate walking and riding public transportation