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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Not everything in life is about status sweetie. If I was the last person on earth I still wouldn't wear walmart clothes and drive a subaru. Besides, that wasn't the point of the post. The point of the post was that different people have different preferences and there is absolutely no remotely agreed upon definition of "comfortable." Hence this entire thread is pointless.[/quote]

Do Subarus and Walmart really belong in the same category?  I would've lumped Kia or Chevy and Walmart together, and Subaru with Patagonia or LL Bean?  I'm truly starting to feel self conscious about driving a Subaru now if that's what people think about me.  [/quote]

I wouldn't worry about it.  My husband, partner at white shoe law firm, drives an old Honda Civic and intends to do so until it literally doesn't drive anymore (at which point I really think he'll just buy another Honda Civic).  I think some people are just car people and others aren't.[/quote]

Yeah, I was the first pp to disbelieve the shooting-yourself-for-a-Subaru thing. I never assumed people always or even usually buy luxury cars for status. I’m just SO not a car person that I’d never say my “comfort” was dependent on having a pricey car. For me, cars are conveyances. I want to be safe and relatively comfortable when I drive, but I want to drive as little as possible and I ask mostly that my car be reliable. Whereas I totally understand someone wanting a nice house![/quote]

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