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Message: [QUOTE="Phorcys, post: 5322366, member: 5606"] My approach to life has always been about accumulating experiences, rather than possessions. Instead of tools for future woodworking or landscaping projects, I sate my masculine urges of being “hands on and in control of machinery” by driving ... whether weaving deftly through LA downtown city traffic or carving nearby canyon roads. Last week I took delivery (cash purchase) of a new, very rare manual-transmission Mazda3. My prior car was a 2004 WRX Wagon (also a cash purchase). I bought it new and drove it for 160,000 miles the way it was engineered to be driven ... (entertainingly aggressive ... although not dangerously so, especially when the car-seats in back were occupied with children ... It was a fantastic car) ... Drove it until I killed it, raising two kids as a single father in the densest and most diverse neighborhood of Los Angeles ... and then donated it to 1-800-KARS4KIDS. I plan to do something similar with this new car ... unless I move to Sydney, Australia. The Myth about real estate always being the safest investment long-term should have popped along with the 2008 crisis. Homeownership is a hobby ... a very rewarding hobby for people so inclined ... but it is a hobby ... not an investment. [/QUOTE]