Unlike most of the urban sprawl / suburbia in metro Detroit, Birmingham is a downtown oasis area of 20,000 people with walkable streets, great restaurants, parks, libraries, and some of the best schools in Michigan and people who often prefer to take a stroll to town vs drive their car (exceptionally rare in the birthplace of the automobile assembly line)There are only a handful of apartment/condo buildings and none are over two or three stories.

Who would have thought that a couple of years after my cancer discovery I would be put on the right track tofinding the answer to all my health problems deep in the jungles of Bolivia from an old weatheredman that had never seen a TV, cell phone, ridden in an automobile, been to a traditional Doctor oreven seen a McDonalds.

That being said, there are constantly automobiles driving past while hitting the pothole in front of the drive.

They may drive automobiles that cost more than mine, they may take better and more-frequent vacations than I do, and they spend more on clothes, their personal homes, and such than I do. 

We've bought a couple of automobiles off eBay with success, but never r/e.

Pictures I saw of a grow house that became REO was that automobile jumper cables were used to make the connections, where the OP mentioned alligator clips being used.

Restaurants, groceries, utilities, rent, insurance, travel, automobile, etc.)Once you build a history of data, you'll be able to see how much you've spent in each category.

Here's an idea used in automobile sales: no lemons.

Does it matter to me if the price of automobiles is climbing rapidly?

Collectively we've been sold an "american dream" that has been shaped by a surplus of land, relatively low population levels, racism, cheap financing, and automobiles.