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Originally posted by 51st State View PostThe hairdresser's equivalent of an A3 (and they're sheet!).
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Originally posted by roadster198 View Posta good Audi TT that £26K could buy you
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I still have new contractoritis even though I have been doing it now for three years. Roughly translated if I see it and like it I'll buy it even though I originally got into this to reduce debt and now have a room full of crap I never use.
obviously living north of the border my mortgage is a few hundred under the
1k mark thankfully..... I'm not really interested in houses as long as I have a roof over my head and room for the waynes... Harley,Honda, Porsche and our new arrival Fiat 500 aaw bless their wee socks. I couldn't live without them and certainly don't have to pee £26K a year away on sending them to some school!!!! Whit a complete waste of money!!! a good Audi TT that
£26K could buy youLast edited by roadster198; 5 March 2008, 11:33.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostNeither did my going to a crap inner-city comp
Which proves what? That the school matters less than the personal qualities of the person, I suspect.
Are you saying you have personal qualities sas?
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Originally posted by DimPrawn View PostWho here has an expensive lifestyle?
Anyone here paying many £ 1,000's per month on a mortgage/rent?
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Got divorced - wanted house with space for car hobby = big mortgage.
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Originally posted by Ardesco View Post.
Schooling isn't about the education, it's about the social skills!
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostNeither did my going to a crap inner-city comp
Which proves what? That the school matters less than the personal qualities of the person, I suspect.
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Originally posted by Bagpuss View Postif you want to seperate your children from disruptive chavs,then live in a nice town with good schools.
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostDisagree. Buy a house in a very good comprehensive's catchment area. They do exist. This has the double benefit of preserving your house price as other parents will always be desperate to buy there.
Plus I happen to believe that children are better served by associating with a normalish cross-section of society than stupid but rich toffs.
"Good comprehensives" are only good because they are in affluent areas when you kids get half decent contacts and learn how to interact with movers and shakers. You put your kids in private schools so that they have lots of useful contacts for later life which means it is much more likely they will be able to earn big bucks. They will be used to dealing with people with money and will have lots of contacts who are probably loaded and may well be interested in helping to finance their business ideas later in life.
There are very few people who have truly worked their way up from the slums, the vast majority that like you to think they have in actual fact had reasonably well off parents and good contacts.
Schooling isn't about the education, it's about the social skills!
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Our rent is £1300 a month.
I reckon I spend another £1000 a month on everything else.
So that's approx 1.5 weeks work a month accounted for.
Everything else stays in the company/savings for big things like cars and boats.
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