Tom_Cruise wrote: » Sometimes i wonder what i would be doing, who i would be with and how i would spend my weekends if i was rich. I wonder would you get tired of flying around the world in a private jet, staying in top hotels and partying in exclusive clubs every night? If that doesn't sound appealing you could just do what ever you wanted all day.
Tom_Cruise wrote: » Sometimes i wonder what i would be doing, who i would be with and how i would spend my weekends if i was rich..
Mariasofia wrote: » No one wonders what it would be like if one was poor..
dodderangler wrote: » In this day and age I'd consider someone who makes over 35k a year as being rich
FixdePitchmark wrote: » But that is below the average industrial wage. It is very very far from rich - you couldn't even own a house. Everybody should imagine they can get a job. These times won't last.
Tom_Cruise wrote: » Can i ask, when people say '35k' or '50k' a year is that after or before tax? 35k a year is 700 a week, that's a lot of money. You could live extremely comfortably on 700 a week.
FixdePitchmark wrote: » It is very very far from rich - you couldn't even own a house.
FixdePitchmark wrote: » Most people talk gross - before tax. So to have 35 k a year you would need to earn 70k YOu need to be earning 100k + to be comfortable in Ireland. That is a House 2 cars 2-3 holdays go out for a meal 1 2 times a weak no limitation on clothes or pub no limitation on sports or hobbies. Kids in a good school - no limitation on their hobbies or college needs. And even at that, you couldn't do all that with 70 k gross too easy. (You couldn't in fact you would need 100 k ++)
Tom_Cruise wrote: » Thanks. Im not well informed on the whole tax system, but why do people talk gross when as far as i know, you never actually get that amount - the tax is taken from you and you are left with the rest? You might earn 70k but what good is it if you only see half of it?
Ush1 wrote: » Say what?
FixdePitchmark wrote: » "what yes"
Sleepy wrote: » You might get a mortgage, but it wouldn't be high enough to buy a decent home in Dublin...
Ush1 wrote: » Are you saying you couldn't get a mortgage on 35k?
FixdePitchmark wrote: » We are talking about rich here - 2.5 times 35 K will get you what about 90,000 euro - yes you can get a house just about in a very small area of Ireland - not in a city - you are not going to be rich. I think that is what we are talking about. To put it another way in 2006 when people were on 35 K and they were getting up to 9 times that on a mortgage. Everybody in the county imagined they were rich - but guess what, SO maybe you cab get a house - but you are going to find it very very hard to keep it going and have any life outside of bills. I think the majority of people aspire to more.