>>16781508I agree with some of that but not completely. I got a Kia. Cheaper new than I could have got a decent used Toyota or Honda. And it does look nice and sleek. But people only value things that they know are expensive. If I slapped an Audi logo on both ends I'm sure it would fool a pretty good amount of people and their opinion of it would jump immediately.
With housing it's all just unaffordable now where I live, saying this as a white collar professional.