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Sue - living in Mid Levels doesn't guarantee happiness. However, because I only live once, I will give everything a go and not be content with what I have. Re helping your brother, I will lend my brother $100k to buy a house on the proviso he pays me back. Sure, no problems, always happy to...

Lucky you proviso'ed' it with people who aren't millionaires. Though I'll still say this - even though you obviously understand it. If you earn $2m and spend $800 on an ipad, that's 0.04% of your annual income. If you earn $50k and spend $200 paying your electricity for the month, that's...

The guy's sibling is wasting his time and oxygen. How much money is there to be split in the first place... $200k? $2m? What a waste of time. These people need to go do something useful with their lives. A moderately successful medium sized venture or a very successful small sized venture will...

I'd lend money to friends and families - people I like - if they needed it. But that's different from giving. Whether they pay me back is another thing. But as my 4000 year civilisation has said for 4000 years, if you haven't cleared your old debts, don't come asking for new borrowings. In...

I would look after my parents financially if they needed me to. But if I had to look after my parents financially, I would be wondering why they put themselves in such a position and I would certainly try not to be the same burden on my children when I grow old. But I wouldn't look after my...

I agree with Player and disagree with you. Why should I be the one who works/generates systems to achieve financial independence but has to buy my brother an ipad to make him happy? Why not flip the roles around? Again I'm not saying that money's the be all and end all in life - far from it...

Welcome to Australia, the land where tall poppies are chopped and footballers are worshiped and ancestors are convicts. The teaching of financial skills does indeed start at the home. But what happens if the home doesn't believe in dollars because culture and society frowns upon people who...