to ask you who the luckiest person you know is?

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Mine is my uncle by marriage who is 50 years old.

He came from an American farming family and had an ideal childhood with happy memories on a farm with friends and family surrounding him and then lots of international travel. He met the perfect woman for him and by the age of 35 had built his dream home in a beautiful location, had an amazing job, and great group of friends, and surrounded by family.

His mother is a multi millionaire, but you would never guess, they are humble and live below their means. In the couples late 30s they had 2 kids, a boy and a girl, exactly what they wanted. The mother quit her job to create the perfect home life exactly as she wanted and they dad became a partner in the firm he worked for. He loved his job and now works part time on a very large salary (they are now in late 40s). They travel four to five times a year and have two very hands on sets of grand parents who each babysit once a week and adore taking the kids for a weekend. All get along great. Both grandparents are wealthy and buy the couple whatever they want or need including a hot tub, very expensive car etc. The kids are so happy and live a wonderful exciting life going camping, having sleepovers and adventures. This family know how to travel and how to throw a party.

The family have unlimited free childcare and this Christmas because they havent been able to travel and they have absolutely everything they need the wealthy mother is gifting them a budget of £30,000 for a holiday/s of their choice.

They are set to inherit about £20m.

Who is the luckiest person you know?

Anyone with a passport for another country so they have the security of the option at some point to leave.

Really, anyone born into wealth. I know a few and even for those with distant parents their lives have just been so much easier and more enjoyable.

My husband, he married me

My friend won 1.3 million on the lottery this year, jacked her job in, got some new boobs and has bought a house in the country.

I'm so jealous.

I know a couple of people I would class as lucky and YourWurstNightmare is absolutely correct.
Anyone born into wealth i class as lucky. Nearly all of my worries would be alleviated by a cushion of money or future inheritance.

Hmmm.

I think l am lucky. I am happy, healthy and financially reasonably comfortable. I have a loving husband and lovely children.

People born into money may be lucky but that doesn't equate to happiness. Many of them are unappreciative of what they have.

Do you think these people feel lucky ? Do you think they don't suffer ? Just wondering/

I know someone who on the face of it everything seems to go right for. Comes from money, Conceived both children in first month of trying, husband earns well so she only needs to fanny about with a hobby-job and virtue signal on social media.

Dont think lucky, just privileged. I'm a semi lucky person, win raffles sometimes, find money on occasion, win on bingo and scratch cards every now and then and always manage to stay in work.

I’m pretty lucky. Things in my life seem to have a habit of falling into place in the way I want them (although from the outside it may not seem this way: my life is perfect for me though not what everyone would think of as their perfect life.)

I have a friend who seems to have it all in life in terms of family, career, home and social life, and is also incredibly happy and incredibly nice to go with it - which I think is pretty lucky.

Me

Me. I have 4 healthy happy kids, a gorgeous sexy husband and a home that's just right for us. There's things I'll never have but I have everything I need. I don't envy people for anything because you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.

Family member fought cancer as a child, trained to be a cancer nurse, won the lottery (enough to buy house and car) wed, then had a family she thought she would never have

Do you think luck is created and do lucky people have a shared personality trait. Those who I know who are lucky are really positive people.

Me.
Though not born into wealth. But I feel so rich now.

I can tell you who it's not...fucking me!!

5th Dec running with a large, unavoidable household bill.

I know some have it worse. But seriously, I'd have no luck if not for bad!

I know 2 people that I feel are unjustifiably lucky.

Both male. Both gobshites. Both lovely.

They will always land on their feet. Always have, likely always will. Despite all odds.

I should hate them...but I don't.

I am the opposite. Could win the lottery and be told the paper was wrong so therefore null and void.

I’m pretty lucky. Things in my life seem to have a habit of falling into place in the way I want them (although from the outside it may not seem this way: my life is perfect for me though not what everyone would think of as their perfect life.)

Quite exactly the same for me.
My life would probably look like a big fat failure for a lot of people but I'm living exactly the way I want.

@NeonBella idk, i was born into a wealthy family and DH wasn't. We went to the same uni, did the same course. I have a future inheritance, he doesn't really (ok he would inherit 1/4 of a london terrace which could well be a million by then but we don't know how much that would go into care fees).

I don't feel esp lucky, i don't think i achieved very much at the age of 28 given my circumstances. my Dh earns much more than me despite having fewer opportunities, he is very ambitious and much more money orientated. When my dad was my age, he had a baby, was a manager in his company and owned a million dollar home. Dh and I are in very junior positions in the City and own a 2 bed flat in London (which was quite expensive at 400k but yeah its modest). I don't think i would be as wealthy as my parents and i can feel their disappointment every time they meet me, my dad actually told me that anything below £70k is minimum wage (ok this sounds goady and awful but he said it, not me).

I think I would have been a lot happier if I wasn't born into such a family.

My 4 years old! He’s lucky in every thing he does!

@NeonBella just trying to say that being born into a wealthy family doesn't actually make you happier- it just means that the expectations are higher. And even if you don't set out to be materialistic and ambitious, you grow up with certain expectations. And people around you judge you if you don't meet them. I wouldn't consider that lucky.

I think in a sense, children from a comfortable middle class family who could afford all the tools for success are luckier, because they don't have the weight of all that expectations, but yet are not significantly disadvantaged compared to their richer counterparts.

That’s a lot of info about your friend. I hope they don’t mind you spilling all their deets.

In life, things are seldom as they seem. I am certain their in experience they felt hardship in their time. It is all subjective really.

@FelicisNox

My friend won 1.3 million on the lottery this year, jacked her job in, got some new boobs and has bought a house in the country.

I'm so jealous.

Some new boobs? 😂

Problem is, you never know what goes on behind closed doors

Anyone born in the UK, one of the most free and privileged countries in the world. Statistically even the most poor (excluding homeless) in this country will never be as poor as in other countries.