This is because they follow the old Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the modern Gregorian calendar. They have 12 operators signed up to their platform at the moment: all the major companies like Hertz, Avis, Sixt and cars being driven by Armenian teens. Buying a car for reduced stress is just justification. Anything but AXE that crap is horrific! For the doctor who leases, trades a car in on something new every few years or even buys something a couple years old on the same schedule, he or she will never have to research what tires to buy, shop around a timing belt service, or become an expert on replacing an automatic transmission, because he or she has sold that car long before any of those things come up. That said, I think it isimportant to avoid justifying bad financial behavior. I drove a car for 8 years with no power anything, center console didnt even turn on, and I love music so it was no fun, but totally doable. And for you multicultural lovers why is for the most part everyone sticks with "their own". It depends on the individuals personal choices and life! stop defending yourself. I would love to have 6 or more different cars in my garage/driveway. Public transport: ~$84.50 (without work subsidy) monthly bus + T link pass, Uber pool: ~$120: $3 per leg x 2 legs per day- to and from work x 20 days of work (M-F) Yeah, it is little bit of a splurge, but a car is a real product that provides a real benefit. Ill take environmentalist criticism only from those driving electric cars and cycling. Aside from accidents, breakdowns on the road or at work can leave you in a dangerous situation, and being stranded is something a successful physician should seek to minimize as much as possible. So for a week my husband appeared to be stealing a fire-engine red sports car from the parking lot every time we had to drive somewhere in public. live your life. Vehicle Breakdowns Hit Record High in U.S. # 3 The linked to chart shows that large cars do better than small cars in accidents, but there is precious little data that shows a new car is significantlysafer than a 5 or even 10 year old car. Probably better to just stick with buying only what you need unless you elect to splurge on something. I burned through a clutch beating on a lovely high-end Nissan Maxima back in the day during a 3 year lease. Im all for personal decisions and choosing what you want but if youre on white coat investor. Im a Doc in Boston Uber Pool to and from work costs on ave 50% more than Bus + t monthly pass. im only making observations. Thats a problem docs fall into all the time. All this would make sense if the author was pictured in front of a Toyota Camry instead of a BMW. I don't understand. are you or are you not? If youre planning to get a car as a realtor, consider your target market, location, and fuel efficiency of the car. Well actually, in essence, yes it is. You have to multiply the likelihood of you being in an accident by the likelihood that this particular accident is one such that without that particular safety feature you die or are injured but with it you are just fine. The same can be said for a lot of races and females being upset about the same thing. LOL. enjoy your culture. Moderated to ensure a place for civil, open-minded and constructive dialogue where everyone is welcome to participate. My latest car cost me about 0.4% of my net worth (excluding home), and that seems like too much. Pop a special hole in the back of the license plate, and though it will trigger the theft alarm you can then push buttons in the trunk to open the doors. Even Teslas latest tech isnt fully autonomous. At a minimum, it would seem like sleeping in a call room might be a little easier, or hiring an uber for the 50 mile commute at the same cost of the hotel. And a beater doesnt need to be a 20 year old, $1,000 car. In my opinion, if a person would rather enjoy their car today than their pension tomorrow its their decision and I'm all for it. Tesla has the best marketing of their systems, but nothing more than anyone else has and at times less technologically. We have two car notes despite the fact that we could buy with cash. @Jeanny.. Take example of an Armenian girl.. G, I m sorry to hear of your experience. Decoupling buying an item from paying for it causes people to spend more. Armenian women are great mothers, wives, sisters and daughters because they know how to respect and gain tbeir respect. It really was not until I moved from NY I see that people are racist and I hate it. People tend to forget things like the lease deposit, down payment, registration fees, taxes, addl insurance costs, maintenance, excess mileage fees (lease) and repairs you simply wouldnt bother making on an older vehicle. Cars can also contribute to the brand of a realtor. Many docs in her group have fallen asleep while driving home and crashed. Interesting new metric. You have a very lucky BF. This shouldn't happen, but sadly it does. A nicer classy car to go out in or travel long distance or go out with kids such as an Aucra MDX, AUDI Q7, BMW X5, or maybe a large 4 door sedan There is an interesting video/study of one of the worst cars of all time, a Bon-Aire I believe being demolished by a mid 2000s Chevy Malibu. I totally agree that buying a car 3 to 5 years old is the way to go. My examples were more towards a general mentality. But driving that same car in Ohio would be a total waste of money and resources. Now he comfortably pays for a Panorama Porsch, a Ferrari spider 360, and a house on the hills.Would I do the same? My cost to upgrade from an older Subaru was $9k, though Im sure it will be much more over time with higher maintenance costs. Insurance is mandatory in Armenia since April 2018.The minimum insurance period is 10 days, but you can get insurance for longer periods as well. Prices tend to go way up for foreigners: anywhere from 10 000 to 27 000 dram for 2 weeks. The number of Armenian have decreased soo much with force that Armenians have to avoid interracial marriage for decades to save the old race that survived for centuries. KC, yes you were lucky! From 1890-1915 Armenians were massacred by Turks and Azerbejan (Armenian genocide) Only because Armenians were soo smart that they were taking over Turkish government with all of the bright politicians. I would go in more details but it's hard to type while driving. Well, we don't have a good reputation for driving in LA. I get it, its stupid to drive a 100thousand car and live in a apartment! Bad is the wrong word. As a reason to get a newer car, its pretty dumb, but better than any of the other posited reasons above. 2002 Oldsmobile Alero $1300 2015-present. Glendale is considered one of the most dangerous cities to drive because of bogus numbers. Paying 1.49% over 4 years. Or does it just look good to see a bunch of diffrent ethnicities walking around? Click to learn more! Required fields are marked *. After I wrote the first draft of the post I was glad to see that the WCI himself traded in that Durango on a new Toyota, so perhaps hes softened up a bit in his old age . Armenians are hard working and family oriented people. Crossing borders with a rental car. I know most Armenians would do anything to make their family happy and would follow the norm and date within their culture, and its a shame specially when we live in a country filled with such diversity! Different things make different people happy. 2. Instead of complaining about how others are and what they do, put your remote down, get your ass off the couch and get to work Armenians are one of the oldest races that still exist, they are very small in number and that means it will be very easy to disappear from existance if interracial marriages become common for Armenian women. Excellent discussion, however I am increasingly asking myself, Should I even own/drive a car? In the next 5 to 10 years, that will become a more practical and common question for all of us. A luxury car with bad fuel economy will be a disaster, especially if the realtor isnt a big earner. I think the best way for me to reduce my auto-related stress is to avoid having an auto note personally. 06 Subaru WRX. Why is it OK for Armenians to fly Armenian flags on their cars? Oh, and that's the last cussword for today. Here, we discuss why realtors drive nice cars and what to consider when getting a car as a realtor. Im not counting the usual stuff (prophylactic timing belt replacement, plugs, batteries, clutch, rotors, brakes, tires). It makes more sense to drive a luxury car. Cynthia have you ever dated a Latino guy? He also misses a few. Id rather use my laptop but general idea is the same. Most people might work 8 hours a day and Armenians might go an extra hour just to make sure their pockets are full and cars are not junk. Let's say the note is at 2%. Mot "non//gargantuan" C. says:my question for the Armenian descent is why only Mercedes and mirrored sunglasses? Cynthia. Thanks for the opportunity to do this fun guest post! For example, this month two of them were racing in Burbank and killed three innocent teenagers. Not only do I consider it a badge of honor to drive a beater, Im sure Ive saved a bundle over the years on insurance and car payments. We are not India or even Brazil level yet, but shit's still scary, and the number of road fatalities is absolutely disgusting. please stop being culturally relevant to what your life has offered you. The population density was 6,362.2 inhabitants per square mile (2,456.1/km). So add to that sleek Corvette a stylish aluminum-foil sticker on the windshield behind the toll tag. Based on the classy joints you've been yelping, your English skills come as no shock to me. Many luxury and semi-luxury brands offer further safety features and have models with zero fatalities as attestation to their effectiveness. A new study by the American Automobile Association found that technologyincluding maintenance reminders and other safety alertshasnt reduced the number of drivers stranded on the roadside. If you sell low-budget homes, driving a luxury car might make the buyer think youre overcharging on commission, and theyll try to bring it down even when its low enough. KC why the fuck are you so funny? Just kidding. The main roads in the country are very good to excellent. Moving to Indiana is not a great option since kids definitely benefit from many parks in walking distance, plus my 15-minute bus ride to work and ability to get home in 10-minutes on Uber if needed for kids). The post was not to defend my particular choices, but to advocate that spending a little money on a new or new-ish quality vehicle can be a worthwhile expense for a doc or other high-income professional. Iranian ArmoGot all kinds versions here!lol. Alternator, battery, all 4 tires because the alignment went out on a road trip, lthe whole computer had to be replaced after it failed and the car became nonfunctional. And those who dont care wont even notice. Nor does it mean I'll stop cooking for him. The difference those two changes will make is at least 100 times the difference that buying a fancy new car will make. Jeanny B. says:Armenians women, dont want to be with armenians guys, because they threat them like shit!, they see the womens lower than them, dont know how to respect women, even with their own mothers.!!!! They need SOMETHING to be proud of ever since the kardashians became popular. I didn't know this was a thing. As a child of the 80s Ive luckily never known what its like to borrow at 7, 8, 9%, much less 15 or 20% during the Carter administration. I love reading WCI but have always been slightly miffed of the general recurring theme that you shouldnt spend any money on a car with that beater Dodge Durango as an example, especially when were talking about high-income professionals with valuable time. It's a good thing. In some cases, that means going for the luxurious brands. Totally agree with that. Current car is VW Passat diesel that VW has to buy back for $25,000 by the end of 2017 due to the lawsuit on emissions. This not cool IMO. Exactly. Shoot, even just buying the last model year will save a bunch and is usually only in the 5-6 year old range, sometimes less. I think it'd be far easier for an Armo guy ti be a trailblazer than a woman. Driving in Armenia presents few challenges, even if your fellow motorists are likely to drive a little wilder than what you are used to at home. Yet I see benz after benzhmmm *Scratches head*. nobody (including me) is judging you. "Notice how even though 1 in 4 Glendale residents are Armenian, there isn't a separate category for them? . chillax.seriously. Reader strategy #5: Dont buy a car unless you have to. We dont intend to trade it in earlier, since it fits our needs and the buyback price is not significantly adjusted by additional mileage. But as we can see, inexpensive cars are also extremely reliable. Throw in self-entitled pedestrians and cab and marshutka drivers who think they'd give Schumacher a run for his money, should they have gotten the opportunity, as well as the average age of the cars on the road to rival that of the tech in our military, and you have the ajabsandal that is Armenians roads, and that's to say nothing about the road conditions themselves (which are admittedly improving as of recent). Interracial marriages are understandable the vanishing of a culture is a serious concern.3) Who are you to decide that Armenians are not enjoying their life and need a new mentality. Neither was a CPO but were both under warranty at time of purchase. Are germans really that hard to be friends with? I think this strikes a balance between reliability and frugality that Im comfortable with. Nice post. I have to laugh when I see people talk about how inexpensive cars are unreliable. The metric just varies so much I dont think it does much. So which is it? Of course as highly educated professionals our financial decisions couldnt be altered by something like that, just like our clinical decisions are impervious to drug reps, right? Bruh, bruh, bruh, I am not advocating that you buy a BMW. But it could also be for comfort and personal branding. At any rate, between the How to Buy A Car and the How To Get Rich By Driving a $5,000 Car I received this guest post from Craig S. Daste, Jr., an attorney who happens to be married to a doc. Armenia was the first country to chillax.seriously. If our kids don't speak Armenian, their kids won't either. Ill also add that not having kids makes the decision quite different. Or is this just exaggeration by angry drivers. For realtors, their reasons for driving nice cars include: 1. Second, which varies city-to-city, is crime, and in my town, as well as several others Ive visited, the hospitals are in the worst, highest-crime areas, e.g., here in New Orleans you can walk down the sidewalk next to university hospital and stand in the spot a med student was literally shot for trying to help a rape victim. "let's get him a cartier watch". just kidding. She occasionally works a night shift (worst is shift ending at 6AM, when dawns light actually makes you more tired than driving home at 3AM in the dark). had a photographer for my kid bar mitzvah show up at my home in a BENZ Ten years old and youre probably OK, depending on the specific make and model. They have 12 operators signed up to their platform at the moment: all the major companies like Hertz, Avis, Sixt and Europcar, supplemented by local Armenian operators: a good mix of the affordable and the reliable. Plenty of hotels claim they have parking, by which they mean street parking, which is not always guaranteed. I have scene many Armenian guys date other girls and there is no issue.. Michael I failed to mention other instances I have come across. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. She is a sweetheart but faces lots of scrutiny from only other Armenians. Give the Appearance of But he takes it in good stride. For more details, see our guide to Armenian border crossings. They're bad in the sense they don't follow rules, are emotional, unorganized and undisciplined which is actually an issue that extends beyond just driving. Budgeting a little extra for quality transportation goes hand in hand with the mentality of a financially savvy physician who goes to great lengths to reduce risk by using proven methods and quality equipment for treatments, obtaining adequate malpractice and liability insurance and using various financial vehicles to insure his or her income and life. That's just justification. Were still several years out from truly autonomous transportation. "Armenian customer: "No, no, you do, you do 4 Jumbo Jeck, 4 cheecken sendweech, 4 large fry, 4 drink $5.99.Jack in the Box Cashier 2: "May I take your order? So anytime you see someone driving normal, most likely Armenian. I can only think of one place in my state where that could work, and it would severely restrict recreational opportunities. I could have spent maybe $5k less on something not quite as nice that still fit the bill. Who cares how old it is. 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