hiya
how interesting!
http://news.domain.com.au/domain/bl...26-1vuzb.html?s_cid=FDMedia:rainbow1_30_03_12
how interesting!
http://news.domain.com.au/domain/bl...26-1vuzb.html?s_cid=FDMedia:rainbow1_30_03_12
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Interesting article, Virgo.
Bruno Grollo lives in Thornbury where he owns a whole "street block". Mind you he could live on any estate he chose to in Toorak, et al. Not everyone aspires to the affluent suburbs, nor necessarily the high end houses. Nothing wrong for those that want/have that. Horses for courses at the end of the day.
The typical "Millionaire Next Door" in the book by the same title generally doesn't live in a trophy home. You'd be hard pressed to pick them according to the authors. For those who haven't read it, although it has a US slant, it is a great read.
Um the managing director (aka employee) of a research/consulting firm is hardly in the same league as a Gerry Harvey or Bruno Grollo. Talk about chalk and cheese.
If I became as successful as him, id simply buy my own suburb so I have the choice to choose who my neighbours are
We all can't live in Double Bay or South Yarra,
The difference in attitude and need to show wealth between the truly wealthy and the aspirationally wealthy is quite pronounced.
The wealthiest person I know (and I mean truly wealthy not works 9-5 and lives in a mcmansion "wealthy") looks like a regular working joe off the street who you wouldnt give the time of day to. Lives in a modest non showoff house, with the only real sign of wealth being the car (which is an E63 merc, not something stupidly expensive).
This is a guy who would be up there in net wealth with the bigger league (ie sold his business a few years ago for the multiples of tens of millions).
The difference in attitude and need to show wealth between the truly wealthy and the aspirationally wealthy is quite pronounced.
I DREAM of living in a small, beautifully designed eco cabin in the bush, near a bubbling brook, with chooks, goats, two cats, three dogs, happy children, easy-going neighbours, surrounded by dense temperate rain forest, on a school-bus route, within delivery distance of Woolworths. And I am working on it right now.
If you are forced to catch the tram/bus, Sth Yarra/Elwood to the city is over 30mins. It takes the same time to get to Pascoe Vale (last train station before it becomes zone 2) on the Craigeburn/Broadmeadows line in Melbourne's north. To get to the end of that line which is 26 kms out of the city, takes 50 mins by train. You could buy a 4br 2bath house for mid-400's.