I ditched mine without looking back due to strong evidence of a ringland failure. No compression in the cylinder, extremely high chrome and iron in the oil, trending up over 5 analyses of 5000 mile intervals. Being fresh out of college, I couldn’t afford a new short or long block (admittedly, in retrospect, owning a…

If you look at the S&P500 performance leading up until 1975, it doesn’t appear to be the worst investment of his money considering it took 20 years to double to the value it was in 1975 when he took the loan. That $20B value that’s given is also calculated reinvesting dividends, meaning he’d have $0 to live on.

Keeping the LGT past 150k miles seems to get pretty expensive, based on 7 years of being on legacygt.com

Same! Since college began, almost a decade ago (geez, time flies) it’s been my “motivation for higher education” and lately “motivation for a promotion”

France wouldn’t be bad. At least you could eat delicious foods

The unfortunate reality is that most of us do have debt (students and 1 very inexpensive car, in our case) plus a mortgage, plus daycare. We don’t live lavishly whatsoever, but $8k/mo doesn’t leave a whole lot left after everything is taken into consideration. Take away all of the debts, and yes, life becomes very…

Do you like Jeeps?

Didn’t they do that a few years ago with the Jetta? They took away any niceties and made it super cheap. It got people into the dealerships and they were able to up-sell customers

Absolutely. My next-door neighbor is a newly-retired man who just had knee surgery. And now he has nothing to do except sit on the front or back porch all day and tell me that I have a few weeds in my lawn (Yes, I’m aware old man, but I have a <1 yr-old child that takes priority now).

No, if your neighbor is cool with it and nobody else can see it— no issue

Seems like you’re the one getting mad

The google does it for me

I’m guessing that if it was a perfect anything, the neighbor would not complain. The complaining typically begins when the cars sit and sit and sit and become an eyesore. What we don’t know is if the neighbors had a conversation that turned into a dispute, and who reacted in what way. Who knows— the guy who owns the 2…

I don’t care what you keep in your garage, how clean your house looks, or what/who you do in the bedroom. But please, if it’s public view, at least keep it clean. THAT is the neighborly thing to do.

The difference between your situation and mine is that you purchased your house knowing that you share a driveway with this nimwit.

Finally— someone on this board who agrees with me

There’s a decent chance they don’t. What is it— 40-something percent of Americans don’t pay their taxes?

I think of my children biking down the sidewalk and one of those cars’ parking brakes/brake lines letting go, rolling back, and crushing my children.

Did your father ever finish any of those projects? Be honest.

They hurt my eyes.