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Oh Dear: What happens when you borrow against the house for a get rich scheme

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    #61
    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    Anyone who can't live on £250k a year, so that they need to take risks like this one, deserve everything they get. If they weren't spending stupid amounts of money, then he wouldn't have gambled everything they own (and then some) to invest in Romania with no knowledge of what they were doing.



    OK, I'll give him that - he's a trier. However, I still have no sympathy for them.
    It's tough on £250k.
    What happens in General, stays in General.
    You know what they say about assumptions!

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      #62
      At least he hasn't (yet ) gunned down his family to spare them the embarrassment of having to 'slum it', like Christopher Foster did when in a similar position.
      Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
      Feist - I Feel It All
      Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

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        #63
        Originally posted by AtW View Post
        From the article:

        ‘Romania had left the Eastern bloc, and this was a scheme to develop land around Bucharest,’ he says. ‘The idea was to create a beautiful suburb for professionals working in Bucharest so they could commute into the city."

        The only professionals in Bucharest are hookers
        Let us not forget EU open doors immigration benefits IT contractors more than anyone

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          #64
          The story does highlight the perverse desire to provide children with private education, reportedly costing them £100k/year, when the only likely benefit is to be included with the 'in crowd' of lawyers, doctors and the like.

          That's what they mean when they say they fear their children will lose their social standing.

          Too bad. They must be tulipting themselves the daughters would get knocked up by the local 'scum' if they think they can do a better job by home schooling. I guess they've never heard of rebellious teenagers.
          Feist - 1234. One camera, one take, no editing. Superb. How they did it
          Feist - I Feel It All
          Feist - The Bad In Each Other (Later With Jools Holland)

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