Is buying a motor scooter a good idea?
I just finished my education. Not surprisingly I have no money at all and unfortunately i have no car (and i dont even have a drivers license as yet). I am thinking about getting a motor scooter instead of a car. Please take the following into account
1. There is a social angle. I just joined as a junior professor. i have to present a certain image to students and senior faculty.
2. The money issue: As a starting postdoctoral faculty member, I have a pretty meagre income of K and no raises are expected in the next 3 years at least. And after 3 years, i will have to find a real professorial job…so thats a big uncertain tossup.
4. I am not sure pledging abt ,000 for a car is such a good idea with my kind of means and future. I don’t want to buy a used car, because I have a little dream about a new car…I don’t want to strangle my dream by buying an old one. Having lived as a grad student, desperate poverty, old clothes, old books, broken houses are all so familiar…I want a departure from those horrible years…i want to buy something new.
4. Considering that this would be my first car and first license ever and I am a young single male, the insurance rates are bound to be insane.
5. As such, I have considered getting a motor scooter that costs only about 00. But I have concerns about safety and professional image.
what do you say?
One day you will have an accident. If you don’t die, you will spend 6-12 weeks in hospital. If you aren’t brain damaged, or crippled, you will spend at least the next two years recovering. You will probably be in pain most of that time. No matter what, you will rue the day you bought a motor scooter.
Buy the safest vehicle you can afford. Commuting is the most dangerous thing you do every day.
you should get one. it’s actually pretty safe. and as far as your money situation goes these things cost less and they get up to 100 mpg which is good news in todays economy. just get a respectable one and you’ll be fine! here is a link to a website with a motor scooter i found interesting, http://www.powersportsmax.com/product_info.php/products_id/303 good luck!