I'm a secret rich kid ama

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

Blimey, if I was given assets by family totalling £1million I'd certainly feel rich!

I was looking forward to pet tigers, private jets and exotic holiday stories. Not a fairly average SE household. Whilst £1 million is rich, it isn't extraordinarily so. And certainly not AMA worthy.

Some interesting responses here.

A lot of very envious people protesting far too much.....

Is it £1 million cash, plus your properties, or an estimated £1m current value in property that’s fully paid for? Both indicate high wealth, but being a cash millionnaire seems more textbook rich!

With a naice paid-for roof over your heads, and likely future £££ inheritences, any money you earn is available to spend, even after bills and school fees - holidays and so on.

I hope AMA becomes as brutal as AIBU because it definitely needs cleansing. Currently, there is this thread and another one pretty set to land a DailyFail column of their own. That certainly is a low point and it stops many genuine and true stories from coming forward.

I came here thinking you were going to say £30mil+

Boring.

I'm asset rich, cash poor, but one million doesn't impress me at all! Nothing about you does, in fact, op. If your dh earns a a good wage, why are parents buying you cars? Do you work? Have some self respect and buy your own stuff! One million, ha, it's hardly noticeable in the south east if you live in a pricey part of the country and have a good job. Self made also!

@BonnieF - not envious, as we are wealthier than OP, and completely self made. I know about the lifestyle of this sort of income level. We own four properties, without large mortgages. Super rich but pretending not to be had the potential to be interesting. There might have been tales of secret philanthropy and how they spend their spare millions. Instead, it's a couple who have been given parental handouts and think their friends don't realise.

Sooooo many jealous people on here

Crying, you probably mean envy but don't let me tell you how to project yourself into others.

Our parents all work in professional environments so don't have any staff on minimum wage

What, no cleaner? No gardener? Even I have a cleaner! Our garden is too small to need a gardener on a regular basis.

I am also 'worth' around a million. I have a house that I had parental help to buy (in 2005). It is worth about a million quid (ridiculously, it is tiny) and we have a remaining mortgage of about £70,000 on it. I am definitely rich compared to most people in that I have a nearly paid off expensive house that I could never have afforded alone, but I wouldn't consider myself a 'rich kid' as we still have to budget for things. We can't just do whatever we want, when we want. That would be my definition of really rich, I think. Given that, I'm aware that I am several orders of magnitude luckier than most.

We are currently saving up for new windows. Ours are horrid and most barely work in terms of actually opening, shutting and locking (you know, the basic window functions). It will take us a few years to be able to pay for this. Yes, my parents would probably pay for it if I asked them, but I don't want to. I would prefer to pay for my new windows myself.

Many people in London who bought 20 plus years ago now live in paid off £1m houses. It’s not exceptionally rich around these parts. I think that’s why people are surprised you started this thread.

The jealousy on this thread reeks.

£1m in owned-assets is rich and certainly not “average” in London/south east.

We have a commercial property portfolio which was valued recently for a trust fund for the children. It looks fantastic on paper, however you have to work it hard and be on the ball to raise the income from it. No point in selling it, the taxman will take half of it immediately.

if you're so rich,why do your parents have to buy you stuff?

Ive got a question:

What achievements have you done in your life that you feel you could attribute solely down to your own hard work and ambition and not to mum and dad/dh?