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mmccarthy
Brommers
Difficult to say. Looking at old school friends, friends from university and colleagues there are some who are considerably wealthier than I am either due to family money or very remunerative careers (mostly banking and finance). Some are more on the 'just getting by' level despite living very modest lifestyles. There's quite a wide spread. The main differentiator I imagine is that I lived at home for a long time during my 20s, built up a chunky deposit and then bought a house in the sticks, so there wasn't that much of a mortgage to pay off in the first place.
It was. It was great fun, but it attracted a lot of unwelcome attention from the police and boy-racers, particularly the latter, so I sold it to my BiL and bought something rather more understated but faster. The Porsche was new to me, I should point out, not new new. I've never bought a new new car (although I have built some) and I doubt I ever will.