To make this a fair fight, we've taken the Apple Watch and put it up against premium smartwatches — other devices made from expensive-feeling metal and glass, with apps that communicate with those on your phone to keep you from spending all of your time staring at your iOS- or Android-powered pocket slate.
But it's come at a price: the city is overcrowded, and extremely expensive, and feeling increasingly stratified and stilted, and there are still a lot of questions over how and if that will be resolved.
With mortgages and auto loans more expensive, and people feeling less wealthy, consumers buy fewer houses and cars.
She likes the more expensive Mercedes!" That feeling of isolation continued into the fall, Ms. Kite said recently over the phone.
I haven't updated GPS because the audio shop, which caters to Masters of the Universe and their $90,000 compensatory vehicles, is very expensive and my feeling tends to be oh, so what if I run into a little traffic, it's not the Donner Pass.
Between the bear market and terrorism's disastrous effect on travel, expensive wines are feeling squeezed.
It feels more expensive than it is, without feeling self-defeatingly extravagant.
We also considered venues that are not hotels, but a) they tend to be expensive, and b) my feeling is that most contestants would like the convenience of being in the same building as the tournament.
And since I'm trying to be honest here and confess everything, sometimes after eating even that trifling amount I would go to the men's room and not throw up, but smoke an expensive cigar until the feeling passed, if it had existed in the first place.
"The problem is, in the current market, even at the lower price range, most buyers today look at horses as very expensive toys, and we're feeling that," he said.
Some mothers who left their children behind tried to salve guilty feelings with expensive gifts.
