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Ritzwatch said:
I feel you, brother. Stroked my first college tuition check this fall. Only 7 more for that kid. Then 16 more for the next two.

undergrad from UT, grad degree from UNC-CH. Saved hard for kids. Get punished for that saving when it comes to financial aid. I would have been better off buying a truck and getting handouts instead of socking it away each month for 18 years and getting punished because I have too much money saved.

Oh well. Will keep on driving the 2006 Corolla, with manual transmission, manual windows, timing chain (not belt) and (hopefully) nothing to break. Got probably 320k miles on it by now. I don't really know, that year's model stops counting at 299,999, and that was a while back.

Midlife crisis vehicle? I started a family late. By the time I can afford something else, it will have a Hoveround badge on it. 😂

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I am happy for you, and your kids bud. (And Hogs, McDads) We just dont have it like that though. We spent $100k putting my son thru Christian School, and same for my Daughter thru 9th grade. This year she is in dual enrollment homeschool/college online thru Liberty University. My son gets his masters from there in December in clinical psychology but he attended in person for 3 years after doing dual enrollment in person at Gaston CC while in Christian HS. We have always made their education our no1 priority after food and shelter financially, but we just dont have enough to put them thru School on the front end. We pay for the dual enrollment years which has been a HUGE help and I highly recommend to anyone, then support them while they got student loans for tuition for the last couple years of their degrees. My son has $40 something in student debt with a masters from a good 4 year school, and I have always told them that I will help pay their student loans as much as I can. My daughter wants to teach Christian school history/English like her mentor, so she will likely only need 2 years university. She told me this week she thinks she wants to stay at home and commute to UNCC to finish her undergrad instead of Liberty on campus in VA for 2 years (yaaaay!!!) Don't want her to leave home anyway. She has always said she wants to live at home until she gets married one day. Dad doesn't mind that 1 bit. Are you here in Charlotte too? Hope not. Hope you are lucky enough to be back in Tennessee. I married a Carolina girl and got stuck here...
 
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marcusluvsvols said:
I am happy for you, and your kids bud. (And Hogs, McDads) We just dont have it like that though. We spent $100k putting my son thru Christian School, and same for my Daughter thru 9th grade. This year she is in dual enrollment homeschool/college online thru Liberty University. My son gets his masters from there in December in clinical psychology but he attended in person for 3 years after doing dual enrollment in person at Gaston CC while in Christian HS. We have always made their education our no1 priority after food and shelter financially, but we just dont have enough to put them thru School on the front end. We pay for the dual enrollment years which has been a HUGE help and I highly recommend to anyone, then support them while they got student loans for tuition for the last couple years of their degrees. My son has $40 something in student debt with a masters from a good 4 year school, and I have always told them that I will help pay their student loans as much as I can. My daughter wants to teach Christian school history/English like her mentor, so she will likely only need 2 years university. She told me this week she thinks she wants to stay at home and commute to UNCC to finish her undergrad instead of Liberty on campus in VA for 2 years (yaaaay!!!) Don't want her to leave home anyway. She has always said she wants to live at home until she gets married one day. Dad doesn't mind that 1 bit. Are you here in Charlotte too? Hope not. Hope you are lucky enough to be back in Tennessee. I married a Carolina girl and got stuck here...
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If her goal is to be a teacher encourage her to get the cheapest degree she can.
 
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hog88 said:
A friends dad was a Porche guy, had several before he passed. They're fun to drive but I couldn't see myself ever owning one.
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If I ever buy another one I’ll have to quit working so I can put some miles on it. Or hire somebody to run my forklifts and I’ll cruise around the country visiting all the landfills we supply with our products.
 
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hog88 said:
A friends dad was a Porche guy, had several before he passed. They're fun to drive but I couldn't see myself ever owning one.
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An uncle of mine had several of the cheaper models, never a 911. My favorite was a 93 or 94 model 968. It was silver and beautiful, had a 3.0L n/a 4 banger that made like 230hp. Rode with him several times, he said "you gotta drive it like you're mad at it." Which is understandable since the 4cyl needed to spool up...even if it was the biggest 4banger I have ever seen. It didnt weigh much though, and would happily get sideways anytime he wanted it to. I have been reading Car and Driver as well as Motor Trend since before i could drive...both have always said for 30+ years that the finest manual transmissions in production are in Porsches. They also tend to dominate their weight classes in GT type racing from what I have seen as a casual observer. They sure are proud of those cars these days though...a non turbo 911 is well over 100k. The "cheap" model Caymans are getting close to 6 figures from what I recall after they're decked out. Cars like that always have a list price like $79k...thats stripped down and they dont even build em that way in any number. When you read the review "as tested" the same car is $97k...and they left some options not chosen at that. Hey, whats another 20% ?? Lmao.
 
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