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Absolutely, it's definitely a bigger burden for you to shell out $1000 for a top of the line phone, and then pay hundreds of dollars a month for service....dude, An android phone from Dollar General is $30 and pay as you go. You're just putting the burden off to others because you don't want to be inconvenienced.
Well, to be honest I had no idea that cheap phones like that existed.
Besides costs though the main reason I dont decide to get a phone is just due to all the data collection they do, plus nearly every service and government/housing/job related thing connected to me uses the family phone #, switching them over would take hours if not days of calling, settings editing or paperwork to do.
I already pay for my family's house, food and utilities so I don't really see why its an issue to borrow the family's # every now and then.