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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone's definition of comfortable is different. Some people are comfortable driving a Subaru or Ford. I would shoot myself. Some people think 4000 sqft house is needed to be comfortable. That's way too big for me. Op, your question is unanswerable [/quote]

I can’t begin to understand your car comment. You’d shoot yourself if you drove a Subaru?[/quote]

You really can’t understand that comment?  I totally can. A boring car, especially if you have a long commute, is god awful. I like luxury when I drive far. 
I’m not really sure what’s so hard to understand about that. Different strokes for different folks and all that. [/quote]

PP is just overly dramatic. Shoot yourself for driving a Subaru? Tell us that you're privileged without telling us that you're privileged. Please.

For PP, it's a status thing. Many people convey their car as a symbol of status and wealth, or something that they can easily show off to neighbors. If you're secure in where you're at, it's not that big of a deal. To each his own. [/quote]

People who don’t understand the mind of some car buyers always drop the status canard. No, some people like to drive nice cars. And if you ever drive a nice car, you may understand the difference how getting into a rental Toyota or Honda or Subaru just sucks. They feel insubstantial, they have no road feel, they have no modern conveniences or only a few. Drive an up brand car for a little. If I had a long summits I’d much rather be surrounded by a BMW X5 with some nice features. (And around here you aren’t impressing anyone in an X5.).

Come to think of it, I have not recently (since maybe high school) heard an adult be impressed by another person's car other than one car guy to another saying he likes someone’s M3 or whatever.

TLDR - people who drive nice cars mostly DON’T do it for the flex - and there are a bunch of people who like to repeat that belief as a way of expressing jealousy of whatever. [/quote]

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