• Squizzy@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    This comment is poorly informed. Private car sales use cash a lot. 10,000 isnt suitcase worthy. Any volume of cash of a target. €10,000 being life changing is suspect, in what regard is it specific to europeans.

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      9 hours ago

      Yeah fair enough. Someone mentioned they could carry €10,000, somehow, when I could barely fit wads of €50 bills in my wallet. So I doubted people paying in cash with €10,000.

      €10,000 is a handsome amount of money to have. That’s why I put the caveat “someone financially wise enough”. From my experience, a lot of people spend more beyond their means, and then complain they can’t afford a house or raise a family. I am no faulting people, but most of us have been conditioned with the old assumptions that working alone could allow us to travel, party in our youth, and then afford to save later for a home. Nobody taught us about inflation.