I don't have the money to maintain either

Fancy car, it's not even close.

Simply storing and maintaining a whole boat is way more of a logistical nightmare than I ever want to deal with for a supposed "leisure" activity. And that's before we get into the cost.

can the boat be a houseboat and conversley can the car be an RV?

chilling on a boat in the middle of the ocean sounds pretty cozy to me, you can't get that same peace and quiet on a road

With a fancy boat you can give a SCOTUS judge a luxury vacation and then get a billion dollar ruling in your favor.

If it's a fancy and large enough yacht, you can live on it, and offer free accommodations to people who might actually know anything about how to operate and maintain it. Rent out any excess rooms you have to get the money you need to operate things.

Well, I think I just reinvented cruises.

Can a fancy car include a super nice, kitted-out campervan?

I'll put it in my backyard and rent it out. Probably get $600/mo for it in my city.

100% the car.

You can get a fancy and expensive car that is still relatively reliable and affordable to maintain. You can park the fanciest car in a relatively affordable parking space. At which point you can always rent it out for weddings or events, drive it yourself, earn a little extra.

A fancy boat is in an entirely different league when it comes to maintenance and mooring costs. Especially if it's on salt water.

Worst case scenario: the car rots in a garage.

Worst case scenario: the boats bankrupts you.

I'd take the car if there wasn't a large sum of money included. I've owned boats most of my life and believe me they cost a lot of money to keep in a slip and maintain each year. Even a "normal" boat will cost you $5k - $10k a year to maintain. A car you just need a secure covered place to keep it.

Slips for luxury boats can run several thousand dollars a month to rent. Add in 10% of the price of the boat per year to just keep it floating and in working order.

If it's a houseboat, then the boat. Otherwise I'll get more use out of the car.

Car. No question. I live nowhere near any body of water large enough for a boat, and I get seasick like something else.

Boat. Especially if it's one that can stay in international waters indefinitely.

See with a boat that's fancy, it's probably going to be huge like one of those superliners the rich oligarchs have. Where if you have an expensive chair, it's still going to be fundamentally a chair, so then if it's more comfortable it's still pretty small.

Fancy as in luxuriously over the top, or just expensive?

A good expensive car would probably last a while and cut down on maintenance costs while a good expensive boat would still have huge costs associated with it. Unless the car is some one-of-a-kind one-timer that you can't even take out of the garage, in which case... I'll stick with my 20-year old vw tyvm 😁

It'd be nice to have a boat now in summer tho. Maybe I can't sell it but you never said anything about renting

Car. Lower maintenance. I can more easily store it too

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Car for sure. I don't live near water, I don't have much use for a boat.

If it's a given that I have enough money to afford maintenance and insurance, I'd go with fancy car. At first I thought I'd go with the boat, since I live near a couple of busy bodies of water, but I'm not sure I'd want to go through the hassle of setting up a business with just one boat.

Can the car be amphibious? I always thought thise were cool.

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Doesn't need to be posh, though.

I'M ON A BOAT MOTHERFUCKER TAKE A LOOK AT ME

I would choose the boat then I could turn it into a floating garden.

I would def go with a car, I mean I would be able to travel almost everywhere. Although if I wouldn't have to care about its costs I would choose the boat, I def would try to profit over it somehow, like renting or something. Raise an extra money lol

I'd get a fancy car because I can use it daily and don't have one currently but boat I could only use every once in a while and only in the summer.

Honestly probably the car

Boat. It's always been a dream of mine.

Depends on the definition of "fancy." Boats get way more fancy than cars.

Fancy boat

I grew up on a lake, always had a boat. My parents retired and got a fancy boat to live on. I know the work and money that goes into a boat, I really do, but nothing beats falling asleep being rocked by gentle waves. We don't live on the lake or river anymore, but we're close. It would be worth it!

Plus, I love our current car and just don't want anything fancier.

I.have no interest in either. I drove my 24 year old truck to work today and that was good enough. (Going to the office is a rare thing, I normally work from home). The truck also serves truck things no car can do, and by truck things I mean the types of things that damage trucks and thus I wouldn't want a fancy truck.

My idea is of a boat is q canoe, and i'd like my next one to be one I.build myself, so again no interest. If I want something more in a boat i'll rent and let someone else worry about it when i'm done.

Car for sure. Can't sell it but sure as fuck can insure it ... and ain't no one stealing a boat

a fancy cat

I could live on a nice boat—so I'd have to go with that.

The smart play is to take the car. Saltwater corrodes everything and the upkeep of any boat is an absolute nightmare.

BUT, boating is a pure leisure activity, unlike driving. And a really fancy boat is sort of like an AirBnB.

boat. it depends whta fancy means but i want to silent yacht 80. its the biggest solar power yacht i can get and handle without a crew.

If I can't sell it, a boat serves me no real purpose. And I don't currently own a car of my own and only have a bike. So I will get a car.

The car.

They say the 2 happiest days of a boat owner's life is when they buy the boat and when they finally sell the bloody thing

I'd like an old school pirate ship

I was going to ask stuff like "how fancy is the boat", like could I just fuck off and live on it? But then I very quickly reminded myself I get such heinous motion sickness I avoid boats (and anything that sways even mildly) like the plague, and if I have no choice I take about 3 times the recommended dose of anti-sickness tablets.
So - car.
lol

Though I will push that definition and go for something I could still fuck off and live in comfortably. Then buy a small plot of land somewhere remote and disappear.

Boat, definitely. A nice hybrid-electric yacht with solar panels.

A fancy car is just a cheap car that costs more to maintain to me.

A fancy boat is a house that moves.

Fancy boat, for sure. I'll never own property but I'm down to live on a yacht. Rich people problems without the "fuck you" money to go with it!

Almost always the car except for some edge cases.
The only situation I'd take the boat is if 1) I already have a pickup truck or an SUV or something to haul the boat, 2) I live <30min from a nice boating spot, and 3) I don't already have a boat. Then yeah I'd take a boat (any boat) since it'd be an experience I otherwise don't have
Realistically... I'm not sure by "fancy" you mean Lexus- or Lamborghini-level fancy, if it is the latter I couldn't ever afford it lmao

Assuming things are taken care of financially, I would pick the fancy boat. It sounds like a lot of fun to be on one and I like being in water. I wouldn’t pick the car because I feel like it’ll have the same experience as a car, just slightly nicer. Maybe with a chauffeur…

Without question, the car. Boats are absolute nightmares to own and maintain, and a car offers far more everyday utility.

Depend on the definition and scale of "Fancy". The $12 million you'd need for the Rolls-Royce Sweptail does get you way, way more bang for your buck if you buy something like the McConaghy Adastra Superyacht instead.

Why choose?

a fancy boat because it would probably be pretty big and I'd be able to live in it pretty comfortably, I hope. as long as I don't get motion sick

Fancy car.
I'd give it away in a heartbeat though.