$6000 is quite high ($500/mo) for one car - you might pay something like that here if you lived in our highest insurance cost cities and drove something quite expensive with a low deductible and then also had an accident on your record or a couple speeding tickets. Insurance rates here are incredibly variable and impacted by a lot of things including luck finding a good company with good coverage at a reasonable cost premium. Shopping around every few years can be beneficial here where we have lots of companies offering insurance.
$6000 is quite high ($500/mo) for one car - you might pay something like that here if you lived in our highest insurance cost cities and drove something quite expensive with a low deductible and then also had an accident on your record or a couple speeding tickets. Insurance rates here are incredibly variable and impacted by a lot of things including luck finding a good company with good coverage at a reasonable cost premium. Shopping around every few years can be beneficial here where we have lots of companies offering insurance.