Originally posted by jssong
i think people these days are too judgemental and critical when they hear some kids parents bought them a car. i am still paying for my 2000xlt and im 20. i know how hard it is to work and the value of a penny. i grew up in a predominantly rich neighborhood,, friends with hummers, bmw, ferraris, etc.. they have fountains in ther houses, multiple pools, some inside their homes. but even though some kids have alot of money.. the ones that dont flaunt it i respect. they might not know how hard it is for some people to earn a dollar, but they dont go around flashing money and their possesions.
For example, i go to a state school in new york in buffalo. People here are mostly from the western new york region and are mostly farming or industrial workers. most of the kids here have pickups or old beat up cars. my x isnt anything special. However some kids do have audi s4s, acura integra type r's, bmw 3 series, and one even has the 2002 cadillac escalade. i happen to know one of the kids wtih an s4 and the kid with the escalade. obviously their parents spent some cash and bought them some nice rides, but they dont flaunt it. they never talk about it, and dont show off. i respect people like that. i dont think itz fair how some get a escalade as their first car, and how some cant buy even a pinto till they are 30. but u cant bash on someone for his parents being financially successful. i think peopel should just cut the kid some slack and just be helpful to his questions.
I agree with jssong, the neighborhood I live in is about as snobby as you can get, every house here is basically a mansion on the Intracoastal with obviously some kids that are cool and appreciate what they have (me) or other kids (like my neighbor's kid) who don't appreciate anything they have. If a parent buys their kid a car I mean it's up to them, they wouldn't do it obviously unless they were finnancially able to. But I think it's wrong when the kid doesn't appreciate what he was given.
If you guys think being given a 2000 Limited is a lot, you should see where I live:
Like my neighbors kid for example, they got him his 1st car when he turned 16 a brand new 02' BMW M3, he later trashed that then they bought him an 02' Porsche 911 which he soon enough trashed also, then his dad just gave him their 03' Cobra and remember the kid just turned 17 years old. In my neighborhood alone theres a kid driving a brand new Aston Martin, a few kids that have M5's, one is 18yrs old with a new Ferrari 360 Modena, more beemers than I can count, and another kid has a RennTec Mercedes E430 and a bunch of other cars like those. At least theres a few Explorers
Don't take this as I'm bragging or something cause I hate stuck up rich snobs, but:
If you only saw our house for example, and it's big, about 7100sq ft. under air and right around 8000 total, you would automatically assume that I was some rich snob and probably drove a new Lexus or whatever. But thats not true at all, I was given a 94' Explorer and loved it. You would probably think my mom was driving a Bentley or something. But all we have is her 00' Mounty, and the 94' which is my sisters now as I'm waiting for our dealer to get in an 02' Mounty. And yes I don't have to pay for the 02' Mounty as I'm working my ass off at college to get good grades which isn't easy when you go out a lot.
It's just like jssong said, we don't flash around money or anything or try to show off, I was just raised like that and could care less about being flashy or whatever, and everyone that is friends with my family respects us for that. You probably wouldn't even think like that of us unless you saw our house.
Kids that do have to pay for their own car, I give them mad props b/c I don't know how they do it especially if your going to college and have a job at the sametime.
A little off-topic but, this is something I've notied especially around my college, it seems the kids that are really wealthy really don't show off that much but the ones that aren't seem to try to be as flashy as they can like their trying to fit in or something.
Sorry for the long rambling
