Is Moving Home All It's Cracked Up to Be?

Researchers at the University of Michigan asked students to predict how much pleasure they would experience while driving different cars. The students consistently said that they would derive much more pleasure from driving the BMW. But do drivers actually experience more happiness behind the wheel of an expensive car? Well, to find out, the Michigan researchers asked actual car owners to think back on the last time they had driven the car and rate how much they enjoyed that drive. Although the cars ranged widely in value from $400 to $40,000, there was no relationship at all between the market value of the car and the amount of enjoyment the owners got from driving it or whenever they last drove it. So you'd be just as