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| Thread ID: 88496 | 2008-03-29 19:40:00 | Do you find your mortgage crippling? | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 654054 | 2008-03-30 07:23:00 | Yeah I def .. know what you talk about. At work I know people who are like not young, they are parents and when a sale comes they go and shop (women) and they even shop for their friends and their partner. One thing I felt v funny was, she bought a pair of $900 boots and in a month it had to go to the repairer .. :p Socialising .. eating out .. going to the games, chatting about what is the best kindergarten .. or school. Taking work leave in the mid of the week frequently just to have more freq breaks away form works or at the Friday or Mon to extend that long weekend. Daily lunches and they eat out .. and even a takeaway means going to Wishbone for a sandwich and like 3 or 4 coffees per day, they actually know the owner and gets into a conversation with them :D They must have that premium bottle of grapejuice with their sandwich. They probably spending $100-200 just eating per week for lunch and coffee. One of the things that really piss me off was we went via a restructure and anyway the trend was my team was some people from elsewhere saying they were forecasting their own sick leave, seriously man and we are talking about 2 sick leave per month, if boss works at home or offsite the other person doesn't turn up .. probably go unreported too .. yeah I say .. if they are that sick - see the hospital .. :annoyed: Then, they do have regular, trips around the country, or that long w'end tramp with the mates or the girls. Then comes like a cheapish trip to the islands. I'm talking they have jobs with incomes of say $60-70k Gross/year. Its basically, every wardrobe item they have is designer label. I'm not talking about Christian Dior - but things like Country Road and Kimberley. Going into Glassons is like unheard of. Some of them don't really have a flash car like a Beamer, just that much of their cost have gone to daily/weekly expenses :D hehe... I don't spend that much, I can make my own lunch, I go overseas each year going to backpackers and traveling at off peak times. I could go skiing in NZ and still have a savings plan. That's perhaps what you call people who have a occupation of say "professionalism" :lol: I guess that's the trend around the world its consumerism .. I read and stuff .. and I am hesitate but people would just sign up for the superannuation plan with the employer as if it was a automatic must do thing ... they tend to believe what companies tell them .. Peopel on higher incomes has a trend of buying larger than required houses, cars and food and can have more health issues .. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 654055 | 2008-03-30 07:30:00 | Ah. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 654056 | 2008-03-30 07:40:00 | ah indeed. There money, They can spend it where they like, If they want to invest in a nice lunch, Then good on them. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 654057 | 2008-03-30 21:53:00 | Not trying to be a moron or anything, but the way many kiwis spend their money I have to say is extravagant. The way I see my kiwi friends spend their money is quite mind-numbing to me. Youse guys spend so much for a whole lot of stuff that you won't use at all or is just very expensive and pointless consumables. My parents would be very very very happy with 120k a year and a $3600/month mortgage. Its not ethnicity, being asian myself. They are the same. They enjoy their lunches, their coffees, Friday and w'end karaoke bars and upscale restaurants, they also eat out regularly. While they may not have as much steaks and sausages they have their own snacks and instant noodles. When I was studying, some of them would walk home with their partner and seriously, they have like a plastic bag full of instant noodles of the same type. The women also enjoy shopping and they I known more than a few people and they would have like over 10 pairs of shoes. In their room and they have everything from a laptop to a tv and video player and they are updated to follow the Jone's, maybe a playstation and even that dancing machine that you step on these patches .... Cellphone is a big hit. A motor vehicle is like a must have .. and you get their share of the "boy racers". Yeah .. like that supped up stereo with the CD stack in the boot playing foreign music that they take back from overseas. I met this guy at uni, he said he didn't have time to cook or even eat at the hostel so the ate instant noodles, he also said it was better than hostel food and that to save time he would purchase cup noodles and use plastic forks that he could throw away. But then .. he liked this girl .. and he would get out of his way for that ... haha ...... Go to larger cities in any emerging country and all ethnicities is that, wealth comes nightlife and all these other socialising stuff ... they enjoy their (imported) wines, dairy foods, alcohol, nightlife, english music, american tv... fast foods, going to upscale trendy restaurants and living in apartments near waterfronts... I think asian are v materialistic, you talk about the Rolls, the Rolex, Tudor, its about face and success/wealth. Having a meal without chopsticks is seen as trendy. For many the lifetime holiday is may be Europe for them. Maybe there is less of them as kiwi's I don't know. Maybe given that abroad they live in more cramped places than here and they have the wet markets or food markets .. a more competition living style .. but I think provided time and the opportunities are they are the same .... Even if you live in cramp places, nightlife is big, consuming overseas produce is too .. socialising is too ... its probably bigger than here .. for those who can access it you can have your own supped up Subaru WRX in a rented carpark. |
Nomad (952) | ||
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