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Anonymous wrote:Well they mean they don't drive super interesting cars, which is true. And?

It generally means they buy lower-key but still new and pricey cars. They avoid tacky flashy cars but still wouldn't be caught dead in anything cheap or used.

We have lots of money and bought a used car. I'm not a car person and neither is my DH while we have young kids. We got a 2yo Mercedes GLC for a great deal and it works for our family. Why would we deliberately pay more than necessary?

Well, you bought a GLC, so you already paid more than necessary.

Probably, but significantly less than we would have paid for it new. We also have an Outback, and before we had kids we had a 10yo WRX. These cars work for our current needs and are easy to own. That's what I mean by not being a car person. They are good at schlepping us, our kids, and our stuff around the city and occasionally to places a few hours away.

Anonymous wrote:Where do people buy and get serviced the likes of lamborghinis in areas where $400k is the top home value? I’d love to know which Lamborghini and Land Rover dealerships or private auto service stations are investing capital and in technicians to serve these car owners in lower home value areas.

You're thinking of this all wrong. When you can get everything you need, like 4500 sf and a nice yard, for $400k, you have a lot of money left over for exotic cars. When you're scraping by to pay a seven figure mortgage on some shit shack in Bethesda "because of the schools!!!" you have a 10-year-old Subaru and say you're not a car person.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and my midwestern parents often comment on how people in my neighborhood live in $1M+ houses but they mostly see minivans and Priuses in driveways. Where they live - they see fancier cars in the driveways of lower middle class neighborhoods than they do here. They seem to mention it every.single.visit.

Same. My million dollar neighborhood here has mostly Hondas, Toyotas and Jeeps. My parent's 400k neighborhood (which is pricey where they live) has Lamborghinis, Range Rovers, Mercedes, etc.

To be fair, a million dollar neighborhood in DC isn't exactly novel or particularly wealthy.

That's because you live in a DCUM bubble. Statistically, for the USA, that's wealthy.

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Anonymous wrote:We're not car people and we drive a Toyota.

+1 all the “not car people” I know drive Hondas or Toyotas. Almost regardless of wealth/income.

+1 That's what we have. And we did spend more to live nearer to the Metro so we could use the car less often anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Takoma Park/Silver Spring and my midwestern parents often comment on how people in my neighborhood live in $1M+ houses but they mostly see minivans and Priuses in driveways. Where they live - they see fancier cars in the driveways of lower middle class neighborhoods than they do here. They seem to mention it every.single.visit.

Same. My million dollar neighborhood here has mostly Hondas, Toyotas and Jeeps. My parent's 400k neighborhood (which is pricey where they live) has Lamborghinis, Range Rovers, Mercedes, etc.

To be fair, a million dollar neighborhood in DC isn't exactly novel or particularly wealthy.

We have one car, a Subaru Outback like everyone else in our neighborhood. Before that we had my husband's college Honda. I haven't owned my own car since 2007. I sold it after living in DC for two years. I hate driving and I mainly see a car for transporting me and my family where I need to go and get the safest one I can afford.

Anonymous wrote:Volvo/Audi = “I’m pretending I’m ‘low-key’ and don’t care what others think but I know everyone knows these are expensive cars and I’d never be caught dead in a Kia or Buick”

Bingo. I'd add Tesla to that list.

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather buy 80k land than an 80k car. Unless my non 401k account had at least 1m.

Live like a miser in your prime so some Wall Street owned retirement community run by $10/hour thugs can loot it all. Or your kids can inherit it so THEY can blow it on nice cars, trips and a more lavish house. lol

Anonymous wrote:In their driveway, a pair of brand new:





lol

Just trying to downplay how pretentious and status-craving they are. Totally performative.

Where do people buy and get serviced the likes of lamborghinis in areas where $400k is the top home value? I’d love to know which Lamborghini and Land Rover dealerships or private auto service stations are investing capital and in technicians to serve these car owners in lower home value areas.

It means they’re not car enthusiasts who go on about cylinders and acceleration and whatnot.

They just want something that gets them from A to B in varying degrees of looks and comfort.

For me that’s an old battered Japanese car. I couldn’t care less about looks, but it has to be reliable, not expensive and have good visibility at the back. Battered is good, because then people leave me alone on the road

Anonymous wrote:I'd rather buy 80k land than an 80k car. Unless my non 401k account had at least 1m.

My non-401k account has over a million. I've got a new CR-V.

We have a bmw and tesla in our driveway. We say we're not car people because we walk everywhere. The cars are always at home when we're out and about.

I'd rather buy 80k land than an 80k car. Unless my non 401k account had at least 1m.

I don't think the OP knows what a "car person" is.