cars that don't match houses

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I live in a surburban semi, pretty average.

Next door neighbours have a brand new Range Rover and a year old BMW Big massive thing.

I feel it's a bit much for this road. We are more of a Vauxhall Astra / VW Golf type of road.

AIBU?

The people in the teeny HA place close to us have a new Audi A3 convertible. -wonder if they could afford their own house if they had a more modest vehicle-

Reality - these peeps with the big shiny cars most likely won't own them. They'll be company cars or most likely on a PCP (personal contract plan) where you can pay £300 pcm for 3 years but only if you pay the 'balloon' payment at the end...is the car finally yours. The car manufacturers make a fortune because they know that most folk won't have the savings to pay it off so they take out another new flash car and start the few hundred a month all over again. In my drive, in a well to do street, we have 1 eight yr old Ford Ka and a 4 yr old Ford Ka (newer model) - it's all we need. Our mortgage is paid off. We have no debts. That might sound like boasting but why would i need a flash Chelsea tractor??? I live in Scotland and every autumn I change my car tyres onto winter tyres. That Ford Ka on winter tyres gets to places that these shiny BMW beasts can't reach! What you have to ask yourselves is...if I lost my job or has to give up work for whatever reason...could I afford the flash car payments? BTW 12 years ago I was in £20k worth of debt that I got myself out of and took 5 years.

In my last house, which were new 4/5 bed detached new estate type, I happened to notice this. The cost of one of the neighbours houses was at the lower end of the scale and out of nowhere an Aston appeared that was, at my estimate about 1/4 cost of the house.

I commented on this to my husband ie you would expect them to have a much more expensive house to have that car. He said I was nosey.

Turns out my instincts were right. They had won the lottery! House went up for sale and moved to a much bigger, more costly property.

A neighbour has a normal-ish car, a sandwich van and a Bentley. I'm a bit as I don't like them. He's a bully. She's a rubbish foster carer who doesn't wear enough clothes. And what they've called their sandwich van is ridiculous.
Another neighbour has a mini and a Porsche but that's okay as I like them. Everyone else has regular cars, nothing too out of the ordinary. BMW, Vauxhall, Polo/Fiesta type, etc.

Tortoise

Well here is my house and my car. Haters will say I've paid off neither

Congratulations, everyone! This is officially the most British thread ever, being comprised of :

Nosiness
Status-obsession
One-upmanship
Inverse snobbery
Regular snobbery
Obsession with cars as status symbols, rather than as means of transport or as enjoyable toys.

Keep it up!

Do we get medals?

I have a range rover vogue 4.2 supercharged. My car is my world. I also have two small children a husband and dog. I live down a road that you wouldn't expect a range rover to be down. But it's my car and I have what I want. If my neighbours moaned about my car I think I would have a few special words to say to them. Clearly they are just jealous. I certainly wouldnt go car shopping and worry what the neighbours thought. Christ some people are so judgemental. And no I haven't laundered money no I haven't sold drugs. Myself and my husband worked hard and we deserve what we want. God knows what people will say when I go back to work and jaguar xj supercharge ends up on the driveway as well as my range rover. You don't know what hours they work or what they sacrifice to have these cars because that's what they like and why shouldn't they.

Haterz gonna hate.

I have a helicopter - so there!!

You win new, now go and put a sticker on your star chart

Lol - who really cares a shit what car our neighbours drive - I'm far to busy out the country having holidays .

Oooh nosy cow wow!!! That's a bit much @smurfnoff

I live in the countryside and I find most houses round here have nice cars also. But I find at school there seems to be competition over the biggest poshest car instead. But I've no idea what their houses look like.

We rent a house and lease two nice cars. It's not a crime

Neither of us are in competition with anyone fwiw. I don't even do jealousy
My car was the cheapest, highest spec model that met our needs (it's a 4wd but I needed the space rather than the status, 4wd element)
My dh has had quite a sporty car but maybe he thinks his penis has shrunk

It hasn't fwiw
Tbh I think he thinks he's worked hard all his life, we've had alot of trauma, he spends alot of time in the car so why not sit in a nice one
Neither of us would buy them.

I couldn't stand living in a small cramped house either (which is all we could afford here) so we rent a bigger one with a bigger garden.

I prefer spending my money on our house rather than a sexy car as overall houses go up, and cars devalue so hideously. I'm also not bothered about my dirty skutter image in my dirty skutter old Corsa

Hah, this thread is exactly what I suspected some people are like. Now my husband didn't believe people judged your entire life on the car you own, but there it is... definitive proof.

Not sure my car matches my life at all 😀 It's nice ish. But I can think of nicer.

Bunny are you from the west Midlands? I grew up there and haven't heard annyone use scutty or scutter since I left nearly 20 odd years ago.

Maybe self employed and lease through the business. Flash cars leased excl vat are surprisingly affordable

Lots of our neighbours work in the car industry so our road is full of posh cars.and most people have two . (One has a bright orange vintage American car but it never goes anywhere )Our drive is the biggest in the road (the house isnt):would hold 6 ,but we have one car worth £1000-it's probably the oldest in the road .The house is worth about £500,000 (we've been here a long time ).

I love cars,am tired of driving something sensible and can't wait to change our old 'tank'for something more fun once I've stopped moving DDs worldly goods to the flats they have just bought .Are our neighbours going to think we've won the lottery ..? Dh doesnt get it ,but will indulge me as I do most of the driving-about 7000 miles a year !.
It always amuses me that most people keep junk in their garage and leave several thousand pounds worth of car on the drive.It never occured to me it might be to impress people

Have to add that I'm a nurse in the nhs, not had pay rise for far too many years now, live on a council estate in the only property we could afford and drive a brand new, big, beautiful car. However, it's leased through the nhs, salary sacrifice, car fleet scheme (only way I could afford a car). Money comes straight out of wages before tax etc. I don't own it but who would know? I'm not a drug dealer or criminal as some strange people on here would think! It makes me smile every time I get in it and therefore worth every penny! I don't spend money on myself any other way, don't socialise, drink alcohol or smoke but do work bloody hard, for 37.5 hrs a week and can drive home happy.