Car-Guy
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Interesting to me that you used the car analogy. About 2 weeks ago I started an "age poll" on one of the high performance vehicles sites I frequent. Out of the almost 400 votes so far, I was surprised that there were several there that "claimed" they were under 25 and owned one of the vehicles. (These things are not cheap - maybe daddy's money?) Even more surprising was there was almost an equal number that said they were 86+. (Glad to see it but, Wow) As "I" expected, most were in the 36 to 45 age group followed by the 46 to 55 folks. Those two age groups made up ~60% of the owners.and paying cash for a new Cadillac convertible when they were 30. Nevermind the fact that Cadillac didn't even MAKE convertibles by the time the typical Boomer turned 30! The end of the line, 1976 Eldorado convertible started at around $12,000, and you didn't have low-interest, long term loans in those days. In those days, if you bought a new Cadillac, you were pretty well-off.
Cadillac did dabble with convertible a bit later on, with cars like the '84-85 Eldorado (done by an outside source), the Allante, and that thing they had a couple years based on the Corvette. But I can guarantee very few 30-year olds were buying those, either. And by the time that Corvette-based thing came out, a 30-year old was Gen-X.
I also seriously doubt too many people bought a 4-bedroom house at the age of 30.
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