I bought a 2021 Nissan Altima a year ago after I totaled my 2009 Ford Focus (which was rusting out). Paid cash for it. If you have any working brain cels, everything gets more expensive all the time. What matters to me is that things are going better for me health wise than they have in years. Priorities are you, your family, and friends health and well being. Don't really care about others that much.