Cars vs Houses in Sri Lanka
I just wanted to talk about something I have noticed in Sri Lanka from personal experience. I have noticed that a lot of people seem to spend more money on buying multiple cars rather than bigger houses. I have often seen people living in single-story houses in Sri Lanka while having multiple high-end cars.
For example, most recently, one of my father's friends I saw recently had a Land Rover Defender (2022) and a BMW 7 Series (2018) but lived in a small, single-story old house, and another person my father knew also had a Toyota Prado (2015), a Toyota Land Cruiser 200 Sahara, and a BMW 740le (2018) but also lived in a small, single-story house, and another person from my father's batch also had 5 cars; he had a Toyota Land Cruiser 300 Sahara ZX, a Land Rover Range Rover Autobiography (2019), a Mercedes-Benz S Class (2015), a BMW i8 (2016), and a Land Rover Defender (2012) and yet lived in a single-story house.
None of these houses were like these grand British colonial Walauwa's or anything; they were somewhat medium-sized, single-story houses, not modern or newly built or refurbished or anything. I was just wondering if I was alone in noticing such behavior or if this is something common in Sri Lanka, where people focus on acquiring a luxury car or multiple cars for show rather than building or buying a bigger house.
I am interested to hear another person's thoughts and experiences. Also just to clarify, I have seen and noticed more than 3 people like this. I just didn't want to list or mention them all, because I didn't want the post to get repetitive and too long.