EcoHeliGuy
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This decision can only be made by the person that suffers the consequences of the decision (good or bad).
Which makes this one a 5 person decision
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This decision can only be made by the person that suffers the consequences of the decision (good or bad).
Which makes this one a 5 person decision
I have convinced myself, the question is, am I blinded by my dream.
My advice is a definite NO because my intuition is that a 125k salary is not enough to buy a tesla and support a comfortable life of 5. It does not seem you have counted income tax, housing expense, child care, etc in your budget yet. On top of that, you need to save for college tuition x3 and your retirement. I don't think this board will give you a realistic financial view. Maybe you need to sit down with a good financial adviser and figure out the monthly amount you ought to spend on transportation and go from there.
My rules of thumb is a car should be no more than 50% of annual salary and a mortgage should be no more than 3 years. If you have more to put down for a house, you can go bigger as long as the mortgage stays in bounds.
That said, with Model S you can exceed it slightly due to gas and maintenance savings, but that might get you a bump of about $10k or so.
Stay in your comfort zone. For me that would be a reasonably well optioned 70 or lightly optioned 85D or loaded CPO. I am an "options whore" so I did the CPO. YMMV
The fact that you're asking a Tesla enthusiast community to offer an opinion tells me that deep down you know what you need to do. :wink:
Considering you have children that age having a fancy Tesla will not make up for the number of events that you will miss that your children would rather have you at. There is no way in hell I would take that job. When I turned 41 I had a 3 year old and realized I worked too much and hired someone to run my business. So I could spend as much time as possible with her and not having to work but 3 hours a week has made my life much better. That was 4 years ago now that she is 7 that was the best decision I ever made.
For me, I put the kids and wife in the Tesla and commuted by bike.I hear you on that, but I need to keep the question on the transportation side of it. It is not a question of if I will take the job or not if offered. I will take the job if offered as my current job will cease to exist on 7/1. The question becomes, do the commute in a Prius or a Tesla. Am I justified in putting weight in the advantages of autopilot, reduced fuel cost, the unlimited warranty on the battery.