To think that 60k is a lot of money to earn a year?!

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I think it is a lot of money to earn per year but it seems a lot of people on mumsnet don't think so, am I in the piss poor minority here or what?!

Wot Mrs DeVere said

applause

please tell me it was a typo - £15K per month?? Now I'm well jealous

MrsDeVere.

oooooooooooooohh he might be Eddie

(sorry justreads - I'm just intrigued) :)

I quite accept that I have no money because I have spent it all.
But because I have spent it all on mortgage, food, utility bills and running a car - which if I don't have I can't get to work as public transport here is utterly shite - I do get pissed off at being told to shut up, I'm so rich, I'm so lucky.

YES I am lucky I can (just about) afford a house and don't have to keep renting. That was stressful and horrible. But I don't buy designer clothes, I don't have holidays, if my daugther wants to go to university, she will have to pay for it herself.

But it is naive and foolish in the extreme to deny that the cost of living in London and the SE is insane and has an impact on how 'rich' a lot of us feel.

Couthy - I know

The fact it is a choice is the point I was making

cat had to google it but yes, could be [hwink].

Gotta be a typo.

Come back justread we need to know!! Gah, I can't even go to bed now, have to stay and see if she comes back!!

What people mean by 'disposable income'?

I call any room more than 3, any take away, any cosmetic work on the house, private schools etc as 'extras'

So, new boiler or a leaking roof repair=essential expense.
But 'oh we ve put a new patio and we are now skint' hmm well you had extra money and you have choosen to get new patio.

If one more person says that living costs are higher in the SE, without taking note that these living costs are just as high for someone earning £12k in the SE as they are for someone earning £60k in the SE...

I will explode into angry, irritated particles that smell fucking horrid!!

I have to go to bed now :(

And I really want to know! (not least in case there are any jobs going where he works...........I can turn my hand to most things. For £15k a month take home I can do bumsex with angry hedgehogs..............)

No

None of the above

Thank fuck

Ahh boo :(

Would telling us out you? :(

CEO?

Wow catgirl, thats dedication. Justread you need to spill. Or we will come after you with pitchforks until you tell the truth

He's a techie that write a very esoteric but in demand code.

I see him at weekends.

Couthymow, so HOW do you survive in London on £12K unless you are also getting tax credits etc?
The cheapest crappiest flat in Brixton I could have rented was still £800 pm. There is no way I could have lived in London on £12K unless it was topped up somehow.

Is he Jimmy Carr?

Oh bum. I don't think I can turn my hand to that :(

Thanks for telling though.....I can go to sleep now, otherwise I would have been wondering all night!

I am not convinced that Rich List thing is accurate.

No problem at all with saying that I am one of the richest people in the world (on a global scale), but there is no way in hell I am the 108,000 richest person in the world.

I doubt I am the 108,000 richest person in Sydney. We are just below the average salary for our suburb which has at least 50,000 people in it.

60k would mean some serious readjustment for us, but of course we could live on it - we couldn't maintain our current lifestyle, but we would be just fine. I have managed on much much less.

justread, thank you. I can now go to bed! I am interested if your DH needs a well paid assistant. I have no idea how to do what he does, but I can learn for that amount of money

Although Richard Branson would have given you Necker Island. Surely that's better ha ha

Minty/Couthy - not what I said or inferred. I could afford another child but I'd have to give up work as I don't understand how I could make £2,400 monthly nursery fees plus the commute and mortgage work. So I'd be a SAHM we'd be very tight even though we have DHS large salary.

But like I said, no point being cross is there?

I will pause on exploding long enough to snort at the image thrown up by the phrase "Bunsen with angry hedgehogs".

But honestly, do you think food, gas, electricity, water, council tax is less when you earn £12k in, say, Islington, than it is if you earn £60k in Islington.

Because I highly doubt that. It would be illogical to think that.

Bunsen = bumsex. Stupid phone.