What vehicle do you drive?

Springbok said:

We're outside of OKC proper, up around Edmond out by a lake. You can be 10 minutes from downtown here and live out in the country with a few acres fairly pain-free. Other than the weather (horrible snow storms every few years and windy/cold winters; hot as hell in the summer with relatively high humidity and tornados every half decade or so) its a pretty fine place to live. Good people, salt of the earth and friendly. Still reminds me of the old Okie-homie in a lot of ways, much more so than North Texas where I grew up, which is becoming Austin-North more by the hour... Also, we've got a ton of good restaurants here now, which seemed to sort of happen overnight. My office is close to the OSBI (OK State Bureau of Investigation) and it's still like 15 minutes from pure country roads and farmland.

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I've never known much about the state or had any incentive, but we are kinda looking for hard conservative that's not as bad as day Montana but does sound like a serious mix of weather challenges. Wife hates people so property more rural but still good road access ideal. Obviously i like to get out and drive hard and i also have a Superbike. But super hot summers or weeks of snow on the ground sucks. Co is at least dry heat and our winters are mostly dry.

Losing all my toys to flood or tornado is imposing.

Hateyou said:

Anywhere in the Midwest is going to have the weather extremes. Shitty hot humid summers, cold af and snowy winters. The tornadoes, while scary are a small area when they hit. Yeah if you get unlucky it really sucks, but the odds of getting hit by one are really low.

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Shitlibs take all the nice places. Might need to resume investigating idaho and heard western Wyoming actually pretty nice

Lanx said:

i like this detailing area, nice and organized

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Nice fake horse. Do you detail that, too?

Sludig said:

Shitlibs take all the nice places. Might need to resume investigating idaho and heard western Wyoming actually pretty nice

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The largest cities are getting stomped by people from Cali/Oregon. HUGE real estate price jumps all the way from Nampa to Idaho Falls and everything in between. Idaho is out unless you have a lot of money, and if you have a lot of money, there are better places to live.

My GF's sister bought a small house a single handful of years ago, paid $70k+ for it. She will make at least $300k on it. There are no listings for houses in my price range because they are gone before they hit MLS or a day or two after. I've never seen anything like it.

New house, tiny, in a McSubdivision: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/10280-Longtail-Dr-Nampa-ID-83687/2071240602_zpid/ Sure, a Californian might think that's cheap, but these were cheap as hell not too long ago.

Sold my Ducati Streetfighter in February before I moved back to Jacksonville, because I never rode it and honestly it was far too fast for how I ride.

Just picked up a 2015 Suzuki S40 Boulevard, way more my style. Don't have plans yet to chop it up/bob it, but I think I need a seat that lets me sit a smidge further back.

Aamry said:

Sold my Ducati Streetfighter in February before I moved back to Jacksonville, because I never rode it and honestly it was far too fast for how I ride.

Just picked up a 2015 Suzuki S40 Boulevard, way more my style. Don't have plans yet to chop it up/bob it, but I think I need a seat that lets me sit a smidge further back.

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Light bikes are easy to ride. I quit caring about specs or power a while ago. I'm going to grab one of these after I move. Nice thing about trail bikes? No F150's or Kenworths to kill you. I'll throw a rack on it and go camping.

Fucker said:

Light bikes are easy to ride. I quit caring about specs or power a while ago. I'm going to grab one of these after I move. Nice thing about trail bikes? No F150's or Kenworths to kill you. I'll throw a rack on it and go camping.

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Technically the S40 is heavier, lol. The Ducati only weighed 350? and the Suzy is 388 ish, but the seating position, everything is more for me.

Aamry said:

Technically the S40 is heavier, lol. The Ducati only weighed 350? and the Suzy is 388 ish, but the seating position, everything is more for me.

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I was talking about light bikes in general.

Falxy-US said:

This morning I was driving my 2020 F-250 Platinum, with a sticker of about $81,500. With used trades what they are, I said fuck it, traded it in for basically sticker and got a (dont laugh) 2020 Honda CR-V with 6,000 miles. Saved my self *$50,000* that I can put in index funds. And saved almost $80/month in car insurance. I've legitimately struggled with the idea of not driving a fancy vehicle, and getting a grandma car. But the reviews on the CR-V are all great, and it has all the tech I wanted (adaptive cruise control and CarPlay, I'm simple.)

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Life's too short to drive boring cars. But, cool beans. You'll be back when you realize why some cars are better than others.

Falxy-US said:

Truthfully I'm trying to make only great financial decisions. The $50,000 I saved will be $118,000 in a decade. Plus I'm trying to get to zero debt so I can "retire."

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I had some cool hardware, but at this point all I want is something that drives well and doesn't get on my nerves. I know a few people who went in the same direction, too. Seems like at my age, car lovers start splintering off into 3 groups; people who had nice cars but no longer care about the flash and the speed, people who still have nice cars because they love them, and people who buy Lamborghinis like we buy a can of soda.

I retired from having to work at a fairly youngish age...and I think it was a wise decision. I'm not wealthy, but nicely well off, and I have a lot of the one currency that can never be earned but always gets spent. Investing wisely early tends to have a snowball effect, and you won't miss those cars 15 years from now or whatever anyway....but you'll appreciate have a pile of options waiting for you in the bank when you get older.

CR-V is a nice enough SUV. My GF has the new model and it's fine. It's not scintillating or dazzling, but it's a fine Point A>B vehicle. That's all she cares about.

Besides, the wealthiest person I know drives one of these:

Ronaan said:

Since the wife's 2010 Mazda 2 has 140k km on it and I've always wanted a Tesla I've gone and bought a Volkswagen e-up. Delivery planned for Q2/2021.

Yeah I'm too poor for a Tesla. /sadface


(I had tried to get the wife to go electric with the family car already but that was a nope. So she gets the Octavia and I'll get my electric. After the Octavia is used up, 8-10 years from now, I should be able to afford a family electric.)

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So things happened and the e-up I mentioned has a shitlong delivery time that kept extending, I canceled that and bought this instead.