Pity the poor millionare
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll hurl

Some choice quotes:

"Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex. “I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”"

"“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”"

"Still, he sold two motorcycles he didn’t use and called his Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Cabriolet “the Volkswagen of supercars.”"
(MattDP (Squiggle), Fri 2 Mar 2012, 10:42, 2 replies)

I'm puzzled by
“the Volkswagen of supercars.”

The Carrera 4S Cab is, if I'm not mistaken, the most expensive 911 you can buy, excluding the more track-orientated models. If he could afford that, a 458 must be within reach, shirley?
(ScousersPet, Fri 2 Mar 2012, 10:49, closed)

It just isn't very exclusive,
every be-braced Gordon Geckolite has one or aspires to one. If you are going to get a super car why get the extremely capable, reliable, efficient one that looks pretty much like all the cheaper variants of the same thing when you can get something with extra bag of frogness for just a little bit more. Less VW more NASA meets Liberace.
( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 2 Mar 2012, 14:28, closed)