Not sure how parking in the street is "in the way". However I see inconvenience and random inability to start the truck show up as needed to stay in the way to maximize suffering to those who deserve it along with car payment pain.
At the end of the day a little debt to keep a roof over one's head is well worth it ESP if it avoids landlords and roommates who's word isn't worth the cost of a bullet. IMO pick a place where housing prices are more reasonable. It's all on how you want to live and I salute you for even attempting to try this. *cough* lesson learned move on to better...
4 people with 4 different schedules, ABCD. A leaves at 5am, B at 6am, C at 7:45am, D at 10am on a typical weekday. D returns at 4pm, B and A usually about 5pm, and C returns about 8-10pm. That with living in a house that has a newer standard 2 car garage (short), driveway big enough for 2 vehicles only, and parking for only 1 vehicle on the street.
A and D park in the garage, with B parking in the driveway behind D, and C parks on the street. A pays extra to park in the garage and this parking setup works well with no issues on weekdays for over a year. Discussed and no other way to realistically park is found. D has both a truck and a motorcycle, both of which fit into half of the garage.
Now C plans to switch parking places with D's truck. Which means that one of these options are available:
1. every evening C will have to navigate between the corners of A's car and B's pickup in order to get into the garage, while not hitting D's motorcycle.
2. every evening B will get woken up after just going to sleep to move his truck so C can park in the garage.
3. every morning B gets woken up early to move his truck so A can get out of the garage (if B parks behind A instead).
Clearly no good way for this change to work. So I'm going to sit back, watch/laugh, and not do a thing to help unless I get paid for it.
With the rat race of "a little debt is well worth it", been there, done that, ****ing tired of it. Either working constantly to pay off that 'little debt' with no free time, or broke with lots of free time and concerned about finding ways to pay off that 'little debt'. Enjoy that if you wish, I ain't taking part in that shit nowadays unless it's entirely cheap enough to be covered by my VA disability check. Which means that until everything else is paid off that doesn't work.
As far as places to live for cheap, only moving where it would be a 90 minute commute each way to class or moving into the ghetto would be cheaper. Fuel cost makes the further distance more expensive and I'd rather not be killing someone in the ghetto every week. Could spend about double my current cost and rent out a room at someone else's house but around here the vast majority require you to live by their Mormon rules. No booze, no women, must pray, in bed by a certain hour, etc. Doesn't work for me.
