House or car?

I'm old enough to remeber when nice homes sold for $30,000. Average working-class people bought houses for $17,000.  Nowadays that is entry level for the purchase of a new vehicle.  I've been pre-shopping online for a new car.  I want something sexy, sporty, sleek---everything I'm not.  At my age it might be the last car I'll buy, so I really want to buy something special.  Today it is snowing and the media can't contain their glee....calling it the "Blizzard of 2010".  That got me thinking about my Dad, who was born and raised in the northern most tip of Maine.  He would laugh at Connecticut snow storms and tell us tall tales of taller snow.  Snow that covered the telephone wires and reached the roof tops.  Why you had to stand on your roof to shovel yourself out.  I wondered how Maine was doing today....well, one thing led to another....you know how web surfing is....and before you knew it I was real estate shopping in my Dad's hometown.  Holy Bejolies!!! hold the phone!  I can buy a 5 bedroom farm house on 2 acres, complete with a beam and post contructed barn for $25,000.  Was it a misprint?  I feverishly scanned more ads.  It was all true. Real estate with real old fashioned prices.  Cars suddenly seemed so unimportant, even frivolous.  My husband brought me back to earth with the  question, "How are you going to heat a 10 room, 2-story house that most likely is not well insulated?, and do you REALLY want to live in Maine in the winter?"  Hmmm...you know, I was thinking that the 2011 Mustang looks really great in black, but do you think I really need 8 cylinders and a 5.0 liter engine?