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Instead of buying a 2.5 million dollar tear down house in Silicon Valley you rent for $800 a month far away and fly in every day.

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I know you were joking, but I was curious so I looked it up: the HondaJet can get about 4MPG (though presumably less for short trips), jet fuel currently costs about $2.20 per gallon (not sure if that’s retail or wholesale), and let’s say Stockton to SJC which is about 84 miles (though I’d probably go somewhere up or down the coast, or maybe Tahoe). That’s only 84/4*2.2 = $46 each way, in about 20 minutes.

Plus maintenance, storage, airport fees, pilot if you can’t fly it yourself, probably other stuff I don’t know about. Still, that’s a less fuel than I thought it would be.

And, in at least one revision of the tax bill you would have gotten to write all those maintenance expenses off.

I'm genuinely asking... what plane can one rent for $800 a month, and that's with payments for ground services aside?

I think parent meant “rent a living space” far away cheaply, rather than renting a plane.

Read again, the housing is $800, the plane is 2.5m.

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