Accommodation v Disposable income dilemma

pinkshoes

Equally impressed by neither

PlanLife wrote: »

If it was your partner or your colleague from work invited you to come round and maybe hit the town after what would you rather they had?

I couldn't care less how big or small their home was, but I would expect it to be clean and well kept!!

Nothing worse than going round to someone's house where everything feels grimey...!

If I HAD to choose, then I would opt for the nice home rather than materialistic objects like new cars and cash to splash.

A car is for getting from A to B, and not a status symbol - anyone who spends that much on a car must be making up for other areas of their life that are lacking!!

Ps - i live in a big 4 bed detached home but drive a 10 year old car and have very little disposable income. We live a frugal lifestyle but very happy.

rosyw

DaftyDuck wrote: »

All the OP needs to know to progress in society is contained in this link


Hope it helps!

Haha! I was thinking of posting this whilst walking the dog - you'e beaten me to it :T

OP - Your assumptions regarding those of us questioning the merit of your post, or ridiculing it, are, as usual, totally incorrect in my case, if I were to use your method of working out class I would, at the very least, be upper middle!

mrginge

All together now, in your very best brummie accent ....

I am considerably richer than yaaaaaaawwwww

marksoton

PlanLife wrote: »

No, I'm mid 20's and born in UK. Can i make an assumption of my own that everyone questioning the merit of or ridiculing my question either lives (or was born) outside of London or would consider themselves working class?

What are you on about?

Seriously pal just stop with the drivel.....

mattk_180

Didn't realise the school holidays started already. Have some broken up early?

duchy

rosyw wrote: »

I couldn't agree more! and as cbrown372 has stated -OP has learnt nothing at all from this thread. :rotfl: :rotfl:

Ah but the OP's aim was not to increase their knowledge but simply to inflict and persuade others that their own rather odd ideas about class and attitude were correct.

He's an estate agents dream. Someone who will put themselves into debt for the most unsuitable property so long as you tell them it will make them friends and impress people. All based on an imagined inferiority complex. When he grows up he'll remember this thread and blush.

Oh and I was born in the Royal Borough of Kensington......which rather contradicts the OP's theory that everyone disagreeing with him is a carrot cruncher . You don't get any more central and upper class London than there

rosyw

duchy wrote: »

Ah but the OP's aim was not to increase their knowledge but simply to inflict and persuade others that their own rather odd ideas about class and attitude were correct.

And therein lies the problem!

Seriously though, while it has been amusing, unless this whole thing is a wind up, I find it very sad that there are still people out there who think this way

parkrunner

I live in a very small flat, some of my friends also live in small flats, some of my friends live in big luxurious flats, some of my friends live in very nice houses. They are called friends because they don't give a toss that I can't afford something better.

Cakeguts

Equally impressed by neither

Here is a question for the OP. Who would you think might have the most successful career a) someone who had been to university and got a degree or b) someone who left school and became a hairdresser?

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PlanLife wrote: »

No, I'm mid 20's and born in UK. Can i make an assumption of my own that everyone questioning the merit of or ridiculing my question either lives (or was born) outside of London or would consider themselves working class?

Are you intentionally trying to alienate yourself?

You've made an assumption that people on here are impressed by wealth - and worse, the appearance and flaunting of it

You don't have to live outside the M25 to think that judging people by the house they live in or the car they drive is the mark of a poor-quality human being.