House vs. Car
Okay, that’s not meant to sound as pretentious as it does, but that’s the dilemma. I’ve been itching to get out of my condo for a while now and get something without shared walls and with a backyard. But the more I look, the more I know what I DON’T want in a house. I’d love something with some sort of interesting, and atypical, architectural or geographic feature. A city light view would be great. However, I’m not having much luck finding the perfect home. Now I could do what Mavro did in Seattle and build my perfect home, but it’s not much easier to find decent land, if not harder, than it is to find a decent home here in LA (at least not in my price range).
On the other hand, I’ve always wanted to have a convertible to drive for a year or two and that itch also hit me pretty hard when Spring rolled around this year. As you can imagine, there’s no problem at all finding a sporting convertible here in Los Angeles.
Hence the dilemma. Hold out (i.e. be smart and fiscally responsible) for the right house or splurge a little (you only live once!) and go pick up a decent convertible for a couple years? At this rate, it’ll be Winter soon and it won’t matter anyway - I’ll just have to worry about if I should attempt to break my arm snowboarding again.