What type of people own high-high-end gear?

[Joe]

Hi Joe,



You're welcome to ask. Nope, since I left home at 25, and have been responsible for looking after myself, I've asked my parents for very little and largely supported myself. My wife was the same, and she left home in Wrexham (and went to work in London) long before I left home. Mind you, that was in the late 80s (we moved into our first house together in 1990), and property prices were very different then from now.

We were also fortunate that both of us had very caring and supportive parents, and fortunately ones who were in a position financially to help us out if we needed it (both of us were also only children), so I guess we drew some comfort from knowing that help was always there if we needed it, but we're both fiercely independent and driven people (what in some circles are referred to as 'achievers'), and so we were determined to stand on our own two feet!.

Thanks for that Marco. Sounds similar to us (well, apart from the 'fiercely independent and driven' bit). Buying property at the right time had a great deal to do with enabling us to make our way at about the same age, though I'd left home at 19 and moved down south. Both my sisters got some help from one of our aunts with the deposit on their first houses (and both of them still live in them), but by the time we got round to buying, my aunt had run out of money. (Itself a very thorny issue between my mother and her siblings, which led to an irreconcilable family split).

[Marco]

Thanks for that Marco. Sounds similar to us (well, apart from the 'fiercely independent and driven' bit). Buying property at the right time had a great deal to do with enabling us to make our way at about the same age, though I'd left home at 19 and moved down south. Both my sisters got some help from one of our aunts with the deposit on their first houses (and both of them still live in them), but by the time we got round to buying, my aunt had run out of money. (Itself a very thorny issue between my mother and her siblings, which led to an irreconcilable family split).

No worries, Joe. I think it always helps understand people better and gauge 'what they're about', as it were, when you know something of their background

Marco.