I'm a secret rich kid ama

[secretrk]

Dh and I both have very wealthy parents, we don't tell anyone we meet/make friends with

we are very humble

@calzone

Not jealous sweet cheeks, £1million in terms of assets isn’t that much in the SE. Sorry to pop your bubble, but even I have assets close to that!

It would be easy to hide wealth in the south east, as pp was saying, some people will have huge mortgages and if OP hasn’t then that would make her relatively well off, and if she’s young then quite unusual.

Do people realise that most who own million pound houses in the south east have MASSIVE mortgages?

To be fair you have to be quite well off to have a massive mortgage on a million pound house.

I want to hear stories of pet tigers with diamond encrusted collars; never having flown commercial; dropping six figures on cruise collections before the summer jaunt...

Get over yourself.

I thought you'd be talking about flying on private jets and having monogrammed Versace PJs or something...

A number in a bank account or value of a property is not a measure of what anyone "is worth"! I notice this as the difference between those who consider financial wealth a measure of who they are and those who know it means feck all

^^This

What you have described is pretty much standard for monied middle class people who live in the South East. But anyway...

I think keeping it a secret makes us nicer people, we don't laud our money over people and are very humble about the things we have

I think keeping it a secret demonstrates a lack of character and suggest that real reason you keep it a secret is the opposite from what you've said above, and the same reason that most people with "help" do this - because you actually think people will respect and like you more if they think you might have earned it.

A little more openness and honest from people such as yourselves about how they have had a leg up would be a far braver and more honest way to engage with your friends, who no doubt guess anyway and in fact are all probably all secret rich kids too

There's a lot of pissing on chips going on here......

Do you have a live in chef ?
Cos when I win the lottery that’s my first big spend. The chef will live with us in our 4 bed till my mansion is being sorted out.

Worth of £1m... what a let down. I'd hardly count that as both having very wealthy parents!!

That's a nice family house in the south east plus a decent savings pot. Obviously a lovely amount but hardly unusual or 'wealthy' if you live anywhere near Surrey.

Ha. £1 million is assets makes you quite poor in london

in assets

Boring

Not rich, sorry.

Do you have children? Why don't you work?

The response of £1m is not a lot is both true and untrue. In any event it is unnerving.

Take the OP. Not a great career. Take the OP’s DH. Also I am guessing not a great career. Probably not a lot of education going on either. So they have money (not a lot, but still far more than the average young couple).

What is unnerving is the extent of inequality in this country. Our country. Really clever and hard working people cannot get ahead because of the concentration of asset wealth in the hands of a few people.

It would take a teacher a lifetime to accumulate £1m if indeed that could ever be done. My DS has worked his backside off to get to Cambridge- he will be an academic- will he ever earn £1m? Unlikely.

It is beyond time for asset taxation IMHO. To level the playing fields.

She wasn’t saying she was rich......although £1 million would suit me very well.

Her parents and in laws are the wealthy ones.

There is jealousy on this thread. No two ways about it and that’s fine but mean spirited comments are not on.

#sweetcheeks #wtf

Forget that last post just seen you are a sahm - secret rich kid - not very secret I imagine - are dc at private school?

i wish I had a million. However we do have 3 cars. all second hand and beat up with a lot of miles on the clock but still. we have 3 cars!!
That makes me rich, right?

Around here and in my age / income / education / profession most of us are worth in excess of 1 million OP. I'm not because I'm divorced, however, I'm still 'worth' a tidy sum. The difference is, I've worked and saved for it, not inherited it.

You lot are bonkers. Someone worth £1million is NOT rich. FFS!! Try telling that to the 1.3 million people who were forced to use a foodbank last year. Get a grip.

Struggling to see the point of this thread, if I'm honest with you.

I cannot believe that there are actual real life people who don’t consider being worth £1 million to be rich. Jesus Christ

I'm in the north, and even here (naice village), people worth £1m are fairly thick on the ground. Admittedly not many in their 20s, but loads of middle aged professionals and business people worth well in excess of that.
I think the problem here is that the OP's definition of "very wealthy " is somewhat at variance with many people on the thread, me included. DH used to work for a guy who we would regard as "very wealthy". He sold one of his businesses for $100m. DH currently has a client who is pretty well off - she just sold her business for £6m, and my friend did a deal last year that got her £3m. Another friend has her house on the market atm for £1.75m.
I hasten to add that we are very much the poor friends, but if we have people like this and many others, in our circle, in the north, then £1m in the SE is relatively meagre.