steve184 said:
with the greatest respect - whats with all this 'mummy and daddy' ****??? I'm sure if someone is living with their parents they have a good reason for doing so - definately not in the realms of being anybody's business of questioning, calling them wrong or calling them 'sad' Think thats a bit unfair - especially coming from someone who has parents with a 500k house and in-laws with a 600k house - ooooo what a hard life they must lead! It's very easy to make money when you have money - even easier to preach from that ivory tower.
A bold set of opinions...
To me, someone who lives with mummy and daddy at 30 year old is sad...
Especially someone who spends vast sums of cash on running new expensive cars...rather than moving out.
But each to their own.
They may well have a valid reason - keeping spending their cash on cars and sponging off their folks instead of moving out, will be seen as valid by some.
Personally, I think people should learn what the real world is like...never mind sponging of mummy and daddy as they head towards middle age.
As much as a flash car may impress...living with your folks at 30 (for example), IMHO makes people look sad.
You also show a very naive approach to house prices...most parents/parent-in-law will have bought houses many years ago...my foks paid £8000 for their house in 1977. It's now valued at £250,000.
My father is a normal working bloke...not some hoorah henry that had things handed to him...
If they'd bought a house somewhere else in the country, the prices could very easily have gone £8000-£600,000.
As for the 'easy to make money when you have money' crap...it's just that. Crap.
Life is what you make it.
You either spend your life making every penny a prisoner (end up rich)...or you spend the lot (end up poor).
There is no right or wrong - although there is definately shades of more and less sensible.
I guess the middle ground is where most are/want to be.
But I don't know of too many people that have been gifted all the money they desire...which means for them to have what they have...they've sacraficed something along the way....and to them it's been worth it (no flash cars in order to move out and buy property, for example)
I envy Andy Mac as he'll be mortgage free in a few years...I wish I was.
But I'm a wage slave like most on here...and I don't have the self restraint. So I'll keep working, keep spending...on cars also...and try not to thing about what could have been if I'd been more like Andy.
There are no ivory towers involved...just the way life is.