Maybe not to impress themselves. But people buy expensive sports cars for various reasons, some to impress others, some because they're really into cars, and some because they really like driving and they are gonna drive it like they stole it. All one needs to do is visit any high-end sports car forum to see those three categories of people in action.
IIRC, didn't you come from a fairly middle to lower middle class upbringing?
try It. Cars are terrible examples because they are meant to be flashy. There are plenty of hobbies where only a small segment would know how much you spent on it.
We could rent, but we will not.
I don't drink booze, and the wife rarely does.
Correct. This is the house I lived in until I was 10.
You should airbnb it with a 3 night minimum at a steep price. I just stayed at an airbnb in sedona, prices were really good for hosts
We're pretty frugal, too, and are well-aligned with your list, especially 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 (and don't have a 2nd home despite having the funds for it) and will add one. My wife doesn't drink alcohol at all (health reasons) and I rarely do - plenty of times we've been out at the bar and our friends have $100 bar tabs, while ours is $10. The one area we do splurge on is #4 - we eat out a lot and often at very high end places, as it's something we have always enjoyed (we also eat in divy places regularly, too). We also have several streaming subscriptions (my wife's thing, not mine and not worth arguing over).
That is a really hot issue in Sedona, and particularly in my neighborhood. We will not rent first because we don't need the money, and a close second is we don't want to deal with any issues with bad tenants and neighbors complaining about us renting. We let friends and family stay there for free, and it gets enough use.
Except for using apostrophe's, apparently. 😉
For free, eh. Hm...
Apostrophes on some phones are such a huge PITA to insert. And then with autocorrect, it becomes unmanageable.
True. Autocorrect across all my mobile devices is getting really irritating as of late. Instead of being helpful, it just gets in the way and does annoying stuff like replacing perfectly spelled words with other words with similar spelling.
That's beautiful man.
We all project well on the internet. My wife and I count our blessings every day. A lot of hard work and a lot of luck. Seriously, however, as I age, I have made it a point to continually work on trying to improve something around me and about myself. The latter part still needs a lot of work.
Sometimes yes, sometimes know---dammit---NO. LOL.
True. Funny thing about Facebook is that it seems a large majority of poster lives such perfect and wonderful lives where everything is great and nothing goes wrong. That's true for a portion of them.
I don't think it's true for 99.9% of them. Or more. Nobody's life is perfect.
First thing I do on any new device - hate autocorrect, especially since I rarely make misteaks.
I asked if I could get some reps in the scrimmage at WR, and they declined. Their loss.
Great post. Agree with all of it except the second home. We've had 5-6 of them and always thought this was the one we want. And then after a couple of years, we got bored with them. So now we just rent somewhere in the summer to get out of the heat. But the rest is spot on.
I actually enjoy hanging around almost any kind of people. I have pretty close friends all up and down the economic spectrum, across all races and religions, across all political ideological groupings, across all ages or nationalities. I do find that I have to partition some - not all of my friends would get along with some of my other friends.
The first comment in the article linked in the tweet may be better than the article itself. The article itself is an interesting discussion on upward mobility and what it takes. IMO, there is no substitute for hard work and determination. Having rich friends never helped me, but then again, I'm like Owen in Throw Mama from the Train:
Too many rich people definitely makes a place boring and monotonous--but then so does too many poor people. The biggest loss to American life in recent decades is how geographically segregated people have become based on socio-economic status.
People shit on it when they leave because many never liked it when they were here. Good example is how Rutgers is viewed by many in the state, not a top tier University but rather a place to go if you don’t get into your first choice. Look at how many alumni we have and then look at our endowment.
