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Offline BC_cheque

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Re: Personal Stuff
« Reply #1635 on: June 13, 2021, 07:42:11 pm »
"nice" but if it's double-digit percentages of your take home pay...

My friend just told me about a think in LA where guys have expensive cars that they LIVE out of....

LA is really sad, I have two cousins who live there.  They were visiting with their teenage sons and I mentioned how I'm going to give my Mazda to my daughter when I get a new car and their faces dropped.  Turns out they would be too embarrassed to show up at school with anything less than a BMW.

LA all together is a really status driven city and I would never live there.  You're going to extremes though if you bring that up as an example of why people want a nice car.

As for percentage of income, it all depends on what else is going on with your life.  I know people who are paying 50% of their income for housing.  I don't pay a tonne for housing, I don't have the ability to go out or take expensive vacations.

You can't really have an arbitrary percentage that's 'acceptable'.  It all comes down to how the rest of your budget looks.
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