To ask what people consider rich....

[Imoen]

I'm possibly going to be flamed but Im genuinely curious. I keep reading on thread about its ok for the "rich" or the rich are getting richer etc....

I've also had several conversations with friends/family and often the throw away comment is "its ok for you, you're rich".

Thing is, I don't think we are. To me rich is not having to worry about working again.

WE both have very very good salaries which I'm grateful for an I know we're lucky (me 90K, him 60K) and we have a mortgage on a 4 bed house worth 280K. (130K left to pay).

But I would not say we are "rich".

We are debt and mortgage free and live in greater London, with a combined income of around 65k.

Were debt and mortgage free because of choices we made when younger and now. We spent much longer in a one bed flat and delayed having kids longer than others.. And we now live in a smaller house, in a cheaper area than others because we made the decision that living mortgage free was what we wanted to aim for.

So while I have friends who earn MUCH more, they are saddled with enormous mortgages, so we probably have more disposable income, but then they have houses worth more.

We're comfortable which is nice. We can't be extravagant, and we don't have much savings, but we're happy. We can eat regularly in fancy restaurants, but we can, a couple of times a month, in Toby Carvery...