to buy a car OR to go on vacation

A friend of yours has received some money and plans to use all of itseither

• to go on vacation
• to buy a car

Your friend has asked you for advise. Compare your friend's two choices and explain which one you think your friend should choose. Use specific reasons and details to support your choice.

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I would advice my friend to buy a car instead of going for vacation.There are three primary reasons to support my preference.
1) Tangible thing -you can use it for many years
2) Imporves the quality of your life
3) Helps you for rainy day

First, vacation is an event where as car is an object - tangible thing.. You can use the car to commute to work, go for local trip, shopping and so on. It stays with you for many years and helping you in day-to-day life.

Second, in general people making judgement based of few factors such as what type of car you drive and what kind of dress you wear,how you speak and so on. So nice car gives better outlook or opinion about you to others. Though it looks simple over the surface it has greater value in life. Also driving your own car gives you some kind of pleasure, which cannot be obtained through vacation. For example, last year I bought Honda car using by bonus and now I am proud of that decision whenever I drive that car.

Third, you never know when life will turn around against you. It is always better to have something in reserve that will alleviate the problem. For example, when I got laid off during 2000 dot com internet bubble, I sold my car and managed my bills for few months. If I did not have my car then I could have got into worst scenario than where I had been.

In conclusion, I always recommend or advise to buy or invest on something, which you can use it everyday. This will help you to improve the quality of the life and gives long lasting satisfaction.