Can you purchase photoshop permanently rather than yearly?

I want to buy photoshop, but I don't want to pay for creative cloud every month/year, so is there a way that I can purchase photoshop and pay 1 flat fee?

I'm not trying to influence you one way or another.  Just some things to think about:
Given that Photoshop CS6 is about $700 (Extended is $1000), you may want to think about the $9.99 Photographer's deal as a comparison...
Creative Cloud free trial & plans : Adobe Creative Cloud
If you plunk down $700 now, you get an already outdated version of Photoshop.  Photoshop CS6 works, but there actually are some very good things that have been implemented in Photoshop CC.  And Photoshop CC is more efficient (outside of a few folks who are having problems with it).
If you subscribe to that Creative Cloud deal I mentioned, you plunk down $120 for the first year.  You could save the additional $580 and use it to pay for the subscription in the future, in which case you'll be able to use Photoshop CC for more than 5 years at the current rate.  Or you could invest it in ADBE stock.
The term "Perpetual License" is kind of a misnomer...  You're not really guaranteed to be able to run it forever into the future on the latest operating system release of the day.  How long is your computer going to last?  Will you decide to upgrade to a new version of your OS under which Photoshop CS6 will not run?  Will Adobe one day take their CS6 activation servers offline?  We can't know.  If Adobe were to lose its business it's possible you won't be able to run any version of Photoshop beyond the day that happens.  No one can predict the future, but I'm just pointing out that you're at the mercy of Adobe's online activation process either way.
If you choose to get a computer of the other platform (e.g., Mac vs. PC), your CC license allows you to use Photoshop in both places.  With Photoshop CS6, though Adobe does currently offer a "crossgrade", you can only use it on one platform or the other exclusively.
If Adobe had continued to offer new version releases every couple of years, would you likely have upgraded at some time in the future?  If you've had an older version already, how many versions did you skip between upgrades?
Some folks simply feel negatively about subscribing vs. buying a license to use, and I fully respect that.   I'm just giving some things to think about.
-Noel

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