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Got our rates notice the other day; "Fire Levy" was over $700. Does this mean we are funding the Black Saturday victims who decided to have no insurance?

I guess if you worked in the Wall st fishbowl...$400k would put you on the struggle st wage?

Maybe you get a pass on the car... Where do you live again? ;)

I disagree; I think you'll find the Jonesey mindset alive and well even here....you only have to note things such as the cars driven by many here - as one example. I agree about the upper % of the population - not in wealth but in the "most likely to succeed" category due to their mindset and...

Aaah; yes - but you are not the normal "battler" who can never makes ends meet due to financial illiteracy TMNT. Proof of that is the fact that you are here on SS - this is not the hangout for the blind consumer. Congratulations on being different from the herd!! ;)

A Ferrari would be extreme as you say...but some would do it. :eek: I was merely passing on the info, and posing the question that many would ask - and justify to themselves the spending level. Personally; I would have spent half his allowance on a car, and the other half on savings for...

One of my mates gets a car allowance in his package. Instead of buying a more modest car, and pocketing the rest towards say; investing...he spends every cent on a car to fill that budget. Many would say; WHY NOT?

Sigh...life; here in the fishbowl... "Hello; earth to Somersoft!?" TA DA! "We are keeping the unemployment down, Voters...just look at all those jobs out there!"

Loads of folks still like and play it, but the playing patterns have changed in the last 20 years. Surely you jest, my good man? :eek: :D That's what everyone who doesn't play golf thinks! :D

The average full-time person is not earning close to $100k per year. Don't forget - this site is now mostly populated with folks in their mid to late 20's, Professional and on high incomes. Those sorts of folks usually hangout with folks of a similar ilk. So, it is easy here in the...

What's the high horse? Most here - and I'm one of them - flogged ourselves to death, went without, got no handouts, rah,rah,rah... And we've all managed to come to a point in life (this site) of moderate success in a number of ways; property being one of them. Personally; I did it with waaay...

If we earned that sort of income between us, I can guarantee you that I'd be the richest bloke on this site by now.

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