I believe in life the best life is the life with the *LEAST* amount of worries about maintaining stuff. NOT wasting any of your valuable time, energy, mental space or brainpower to fix stuff. To rather focus your thoughts, energy and metabolic life towards creating, thinking, rather than just basic maintenance. This means:

1. Do not buy the ‘best’ car, or the ‘nicest’ car, or the most ‘luxury’ or fast, cool, sexy or best designed car. Just buy the car that will break down the least, that will need the least amount of fixing, maintaining, etc. Because no matter how rich you are, it is always a headache when you gotta fix your car. For example a guy I know who owns a Range Rover just had to drop $3,000 to fix the turbo. Or friends who own BMW’s who have an insane headache with the cars constantly breaking down (includes Mini Coopers, which is a sub-brand of BMW). Same goes with Audi cards (the components always seem to like to break and let us not forget, Audi is just an expensive Volkswagen Car, as the VW corporation owns Audi, Lamborghini, Porsche, etc).
2. Homes as machines for living: A home is just a car, except it doesn’t move. Do not get a home that is too big to vacuum on your own. Older homes are typically bad insofar much as they always have hidden costs, hidden things that break, hidden headaches and nightmares.