Couple on £200k claim to be skint...

[acatcalledjohn]

Sometimes I just want the world to stop turning so I can jump off...

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How is this possible? They clear at least 9k a month after tax and bought their house for just over £200k 16 years ago. They have £31k in bonds. My DP, on his own, bought a property just shy of £220k a few years ago on a salary of approx. £35k. No debt, lives within his means and as a result very comfortably too. FWIW, this is in the home counties, which are not all that far behind London in terms of living cost.

I can't help but think that, if their finances were dissected, they will be found to be throwing away money for no good reason.

Their claims of being 'middle earners' is a slap in the face for those genuinely struggling on £20k a year.

We don't have it easy but we aren't by any means broke. Some things we have to forgo, other things we don't have to worry about. But I did have a friend who couldn't comprehend why we wouldn't spend our money on certain things - things I'd have loved too but we just couldn't afford. We worked out once that she couldn't live the way she was on my family's combined income. The sad thing was she was largely funded by family so didn't understand the concept of earning a wage and regularly complained she was broke.

Conversely I have a family member who feels the need to act up to a certain lifestyle and is broke as hell, but gets themselves into more and more debt to keep up the illusion.

Its all terribly sad really but makes me happy to have what I have.

I can't see how they are spending their money either. We have a combined income of well less than half that, one child who goes to private school and even with a mortgage I would not say we were struggling in any way at all.

Might be like a distant family member who was on a similar salary and owned a house in Chelsea outright. In 2007 he boasted while drunk that he was worth 'easily' 6 million. In 2016 he is living in rented accommodation and is scrounging money from friends. His issue turned out to be gambling.