Fedegenerate

That sounds like a bunch of people who are even more politically engaged than most. So they're even more correct than they otherwise implied.

£1k/1y is both an easy and challenging target to hit. It's really easy to hit at the bottom end, bouncing from £500 lemon to the next. Occasionally finding a gem that'll last a few years.

Nearly impossible to hit on a new car though I think. 20 years for 20k I don't think is findable beyond winning the lottery on a well made car, from a well designed model, from a reliability focused manufacturer, and giving it an easy life.

Do you spend most of your time getting ideas and tips or executing them? Your hobby might be the gathering of tips and ideas. Want to spend less time on Reddit, spend more time executing the ideas and tips you're gathering.

Sure. My point is that I don't believe BYD makes cars that will last as long as I would want them to last.

I want to believe BYD. But my Civic is 20 years old and still idles like a purring cat. I would like 1 year/£1k spent and I don't have faith im getting that in a BYD. 20k for a Dolphin Surf is a minimum 20 year car, and I just don't see it.

Dolphin Surf is 20k, for me I would like it to last 20 years. My current car has already survived 20 years, so I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation. I don't believe the dolphin surf will last 20 years.

I could have been more clear.

Your hobby might not have been doing the hobby. But, talking with people doing the hobby then. Less talk about doing the thing, more do the thing.

Example, one of my hobbies is motorcycles and the riding them. I have zero posts in r/motorcycle or c/motorcycles. Because I'm busy riding them and meeting people to ride them.

Enrichment. Take up a creative hobby. You don't have to be good, just be creating stuff you want to create.

Music, food, plants, drawings, sculpture, journal, creative writing, exercise, knitting, flower pressing, dorodangos (literally polishing a ball of dirt). Be building something, you need enrichment. Learn to sing/instrument. Start a sourdough starter (why did sourdough become popular when we locked indoors? Enrichment). Get some pencils and scrap book. Start a indoor/outdoor garden.

Pick something appropriate to your time/budget. Time rich, money poor: pick something you can fuss over for a long time and is no more expensive than a pack of pencils. Time poor, money poor: Mediterranean herbs thrive on neglect, start a rosemary plant.

I want to believe BYD. But my Civic is 20 years old and still idles like a purring cat. I would like 1 year/£1k spent and I don't have faith im getting that in a BYD. 20k for a Dolphin Surf is a minimum 20 year car, and I just don't see it.

Granted my Civic wasnt bought new, it was brought for £1300 a year ago and I could probably get another 100k miles out of it. Im almost certain that the new market is outside £1k/year budget, bunch of old Leafs around though.

'A nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its laws made by cowards and its wars fought by fools.' - Thucydides circa a while a go.

I actually like this as a decision making tool.

Flip a coin, if the outcome truly doesn't matter, go with whatever it says. If you're disappointed with what the coin decided, go with the other one.

Ask, they said white, preferred they would have said blue, you now know you prefer the blue one.

Going into spring/summer that's ideal, I wanna go places do things. Mid winter, I'm feature creeping till something breaks.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Wilhoit's Law

That's why.