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Want to Move ... Do I Deserve a Spot of Luxury ... Should I Blow 90% Income on It?

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  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    PasturesNew wrote: »
    There's always one
    It's your mother posting in disguise
    Retail is the only therapy that works
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    barnaby-bear wrote: »
    PN has no dependents - no kiddies to orphan through her bad lifestyle choices - and I bet she's paid a lot in tax on not great paid job to fund other people's little darlings... if she genuinely enjoys a ciggie in a non-enclosed non-public place ploughing money into the tax cash-cow I don't begrudge her the option to choose to spend her money on a perfectly legal purchase.
    Blimey, that's brilliant. I should bookmark that.
    :)
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    wageslave wrote: »
    It's your mother posting in disguise
    She used to send me up the shops for 20 Players Tipped when I was 10.
    :)
  • BeenieCat
    BeenieCat Posts: 6,567 Forumite
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    It's a nice idea. But i wouldn't do it.

    I'd rather live somewhere less luxurious and have more disposable income. Cos, let's face it, it sounds like you're gonna be skint cos of living there, with only 10% of your income left over for living?

    If it's going to work out that you need another 5k to live there more comfortably, then use that as your goal for promotion, 2nd job etc etc, but don't commit to it before you already have it!

    It's a nice idea, and you think it will make you happy, but it won't. The novelty will wear off, and unexpected bills will come flooding in, and you'll realise you are out of your depth.
  • BeenieCat
    BeenieCat Posts: 6,567 Forumite
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    Besides, i was at the beach for a day today and the seagulls were so annoying :D
  • olias
    olias Posts: 3,588 Forumite
    Do it, do it, do it, do it!:beer::j:D

    Olias
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    BeenieCat wrote: »
    It's a nice idea. But i wouldn't do it.

    I'd rather live somewhere less luxurious and have more disposable income. Cos, let's face it, it sounds like you're gonna be skint cos of living there, with only 10% of your income left over for living?

    If it's going to work out that you need another 5k to live there more comfortably, then use that as your goal for promotion, 2nd job etc etc, but don't commit to it before you already have it!

    It's a nice idea, and you think it will make you happy, but it won't. The novelty will wear off, and unexpected bills will come flooding in, and you'll realise you are out of your depth.
    Well, I don't really work, much. I just sort of faff about and money comes in from nowhere. Magic appearing money. A bit like the dole, but not as much :)

    I wouldn't ever be out of my depth, and I could move out again at some future point.
  • PasturesNew
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    BeenieCat wrote: »
    Besides, i was at the beach for a day today and the seagulls were so annoying :D
    It's lovely to lie in bed on a summer's morning and be woken to the sound of seagulls flying overhead. They're annoying when you're trying to walk about and they !!!!!! on you, or you're eating chips or a pasty outdoors and they want a free lunch.
  • BeenieCat
    BeenieCat Posts: 6,567 Forumite
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    PasturesNew wrote: »
    I wouldn't ever be out of my depth, and I could move out again at some future point.

    Sounds like you've already made your mind up :p:p
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    BeenieCat wrote: »
    Sounds like you've already made your mind up :p:p
    Not really.... I'm rubbish at big personal decisions.
    Great at telling others what they should do though :)
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