Reply to: Living expenses

[darmstadt]

Who here has an expensive lifestyle?

Anyone here paying many £ 1,000's per month on a mortgage/rent?

On rent, yes. In the pub, most definitely

[Moscow Mule]

(and they're sheet!).

No, they are not.

[Ardesco]

The hairdresser's equivalent of an A3 (and they're sheet!).

Old ones maybe, but the new ones are rather nice. Magnestised oil in the suspension pistons so that you can change the stiffness of the ride in the car and all sorts of other wonders

[51st State]

a good Audi TT that £26K could buy you

The hairdresser's equivalent of an A3 (and they're sheet!).

[roadster198]

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 you

[sasguru]

Your going to a crap inner-city comp does show.

Are you saying you have personal qualities sas?

Be quiet, wench ...

[Lucy]

Neither 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.

Your going to a crap inner-city comp does show.

Are you saying you have personal qualities sas?

[sasguru]

SAS is therefore the living proof that public schools are best

Drenk! Gril!

See, I can communicate and my social skills are second to none ...

[sasguru]

So chippy how would you know what going to a public school is like?

Can I have vinegar on that?

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Who here has an expensive lifestyle?

Anyone here paying many £ 1,000's per month on a mortgage/rent?
?

Got divorced - wanted house with space for car hobby = big mortgage.

[DodgyAgent]

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Schooling isn't about the education, it's about the social skills!

SAS is therefore the living proof that public schools are best

[DodgyAgent]

Neither 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.

So chippy how would you know what going to a public school is like?

[scooterscot]

if you want to seperate your children from disruptive chavs,then live in a nice town with good schools.

That'll be Stoke then, no wait er Uxbridge nah what about slough...

[Ardesco]

Disagree. 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.

Generally speaking there is no such thing as a good, or bad school. Just thick and clever pupils. The best teaching practises in the world won't do tulip if little Johnny has the IQ of a Aubergine.

"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!

[Moscow Mule]

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.