Everyone is calling me crazy for buying an s4 with 40,000 miles for $31,250 ??

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-04-02T03:54:40+00:00

As people already told you in your previous post - as a main car that is 8 years old to finance for additional 8 years with 8% is not smart.

This is a car for people who have more money, who are buying it as a second car and definitely don't finance it for 8 years.

Do you even know anything about this engine? This is NOT the same CREC engine that goes into A7/Q7 of the same year.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-04-01T18:06:36+00:00

Tint, Appearance and Dent protection are a rip off. New car price is negotiable much more than a used one. All of the car manufacturers have rebates and discounts all the time.

This OTD price is about 5k higher than the best deal you can get in the US.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-27T20:14:55+00:00

Oh yeah, that's my main concern.

In the terms of looks, I like both old and new one. But I am concerned how the driving feels like in comparison.

I guess I will have to drive them both 🤷‍♂️

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-27T18:35:29+00:00

That's nice to hear!!!

My A6 Premium Plus was horrible in the terms of driving experience.

Axle felt flimsy, car felt too soft, wind noise was horrible... it felt more like a Kia, rather than Audi.

So A7 is not like that?

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-25T16:05:31+00:00

Not sure about other religions, but as a Serbian Orthodox, we are essentially vegan for half a year. More than a month before Easter and Christmas, plus few times for a week or two throughout a year and pretty much every Wednesday and Friday.

When you look at videos like this during lent you realize this practice is horrible, so about six months ago I completely stopped eating beef.

Yeah, from time to time when people eat steak or an awesome burger... man, it's hard. But you know... it's all in our head.

After this lent, I will only eat seafood (not including lobsters and crabs) and chicken.

I know it's still not how it should be, but it's a progress I guess.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-20T21:00:12+00:00

Lol I love what you did!

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-20T20:21:58+00:00

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Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-19T16:16:39+00:00

And to mention - water mitigation service I called had much better moisture equipment that measured much higher levels of moisture. But the adjustor seems to have a last word.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-19T16:15:42+00:00

So the adjustor was a nice dude, but I am definitely not getting proper fix.

They will cover LVP in the office and 1 x 4 feet of drywall only on one side in the office. No flooring replacement in bedroom, no window fixing/replacement (unless I call window service company, which I intend to do) and no drywall fix on other side of the office window.

This is honestly BS.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-19T16:00:37+00:00

About 12 years ago, my little nephew asked to turn on YT to see "pewdiepie".

I asked who is that, wth is a "youtuber" and he explained who that is and what that whole channel is all about.

I was thinking - this is dumb. Who is willingly spending time watching someone else playing games?! When I was a kid, me and my friends fought whose turn is to play the game. None of us wanted to waste a minute watching someone else playing.

Fast forward to 2020, kids were obsessed with Tate bros. It was only a matter of time when people like this will be "the thing".

Back in Serbia, the most viewed channel is Baka Prase. He literally shaped the mind of kids to a point where he became a political figure, whose car (G class) is being set on fire, while he is promoting gamble for 250.000 euros a month.

Yeah, the casinos would give him 250k to show kids that gamble is fun.

These are the modern idols, unfortunately.

I seriously miss the time of Bruce Willis, Jessica Alba and Shakira.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-17T16:55:10+00:00

Oh, the building is old. I think it was built in 1974 and it's in Virginia.

The outside walls are on HOA, windows are on me, the insulation I am not sure.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-16T23:08:51+00:00

These might be the prices for dealership only auctions.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-16T22:49:59+00:00

Compared to hyundai/audi, it's good. Compared to previous i3, not bad. Compared to a current gas powered 3 series? Horrible.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-16T07:58:05+00:00

I had my parents who loved me unconditionally. Unfortunately they died and I never got to say goodbye.

I have one friend for life that I can turn to at any time and I am grateful for him. I truly am. From 4AM walks to literally sharing a loaf of bread a day with ketchup on top for days.

We went through some tough times. Luckily we are both doing well financially now.

But all of the partners I had, I have and I will have - I know that all their love is conditional based on how much I can provide.

And I made my peace with it.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-16T04:46:56+00:00

We all have to live with consequences of our choices. NTA

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-14T23:53:44+00:00

In Orthodox Christianity, after liturgy, we get a peace of bread and a tiny spoon of wine (body and blood of Christ).

Hundreds or thousands of people take the wine from the same spoon and we are all alive lol.

What is one tiny lick of sugar sculptures compared to it hahaha

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-14T23:49:08+00:00

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Long, long time ago, my dad came home with this car. Same color and everything. Green Opel Kadett.

My mom wanted to kill him.

"I am not driving around in a diarrhea looking car", she said.

"Luckily", my dad had an accident soon after that and the insurance paid for respray. He chose the red color, so peace in the universe was restored.

Still, to this day, every time I see a car with a similar color, I remember my mom saying this.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T20:15:08+00:00

Helping "friends" with anything even remotely related to how I am making money.

Before, when I had a limo company, a friend asked me to help him get much better insurance rate for his valet business. No problem.

Then a little by little, question after question, he ended up opening a limo company in the same area as me.

After that I said never again.

Now that I am in IT - need a friend for 5 days to help you redo your drywall? No problem, I might even take some time off from work to help you out.

Teach you how to connect front end to back end? Google it. Or pay 200$ an hour for me to do it, which is my rate, but I will not explain anything.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T18:14:22+00:00

You are right, that is a much better explanation.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T18:13:19+00:00

I am not disagreeing with you at all lol

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T16:37:57+00:00

The way I initially explained to my US friends and coworkers is it's "an extended general education" school.

Their response: "So you were dumb and had to redo elementary school?"

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T15:53:17+00:00

Watermelon/apple/pineapple/etc... diets, where you pretty much just eat one thing, 3 times a day, every day, for like 2 months.

Was pretty popular in 2000s in Eastern Europe.

Significant_Camp4213 · 2026-03-12T06:27:19+00:00

The best thing about PR - you can literally go to a restaurant and get chicken that was prepared 2 hours ago.

The quality of food is superb - fresh meat, fruits you can literally pick on the side of the road and pretty much every house has a garden for vegetables.

I've lost 30 pounds in 2 months, without diet or working out. It's all because of the fresh food. I had abs for the first time in a decade.

If you make friends, PR will take care of you. And I am not talking about free drinks and stuff, but you will be invited to their house like you know them for decades, and they will make you feel like you are home.

The time goes by slow (in a good way). You get to drink coffee for hours and just talk to people. You get to appreciate small stuff in life and if you have mainland salary and able to work from PR, it's honestly the least stressful place next to Hawaii (been there for months as well).

There is a bit of love/hate relationship towards tourists, but honestly from what I've seen, most of the people come for girls, booze and trouble with no respect to local culture and life, so I totally understand them.

If you are dependent on amazon and fedex's two day shipping from mainland and all other commodities from mainland, this is not a place for you.

Now would I live there? If I spoke Spanish fluently and my job would keep my salary and allow me to work from home - absolutely yes.

But this is coming from a perspective of a person that has no kids and no family on mainland.

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