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<p>peter that’s very insightful, but you also need to realize that not all people who drive expensive cars are insecure braggarts. If they have the money to buy the car of their dreams (and I mean like a lot of money, not just barely enough to buy the car) why shouldn’t they buy it if that’s how they want to spend their hard earned money? Isn’t the cost of the car merely pocket change to them?</p>
<p>peter parker…I can imagine that some guys drive nice cars because they genuinely like cars.</p>
<p>This is true.</p>
<p>I’ve just been hanging around too many status-obsessed people lately.</p>
<p>I would buy an expensive sports car if I could afford it because they’re damn fun to drive :P</p>
<p>Honestly though, I would be content with just driving a Ford Fusion (or that new Taurus SHO… oooooh baby).</p>
<p>I mean, if I bought a sweet car, it wouldn’t be to show off. It’d be because they look nice, handle really well, and are generally pretty comfortable. The problem is that such luxuries are quite expensive in a car, and I feel like the money can provide me with more happiness by spending it on other things. I would never “save up” for a really nice car – I’d only get one if I was already sufficiently happy and had enough left over to go “Why the hell not?”</p>
<p>my definition of rich is to not look at price tag when i buy stuff…</p>
<p>but anyways, me being a college student in debt and poor… i can;t imagine myself being rich.</p>
<p>~ I will be going to school as a Computer Engineer in a couple years.
~ I do internet marketing as we speak.
~ My dad has owned a small business for his entire life. My grandfather owned a small business for his entire life.</p>
<p>I’d say I have a small chance, but who knows? I know I’ll be doing what I love and living relatively comfortably (whether or not I have my own business/firm), so that’s okay with me.</p>
<p>^^Interestingly enough my family lived much more comfortably when my dad worked for someone rather than now that we have our own business. Having to pay $1500 a month for two doctors visits a year kind of sucks!</p>
<p>If you have a roof over your head, food on the table, and clean water to drink, you are rich compared to most of the world.</p>
<p>I understand wanting new, fancy toys, but keep it in perspective and be appreciative of what you already have in addition to thinking about what you want.</p>
<p>Pfft. </p>
<p>Actually, I think I have a shot of becoming relatively wealthy. But it would be due to a combination of shrewd stock trading and smart saving.</p>
<p>But first I’ll be poor.</p>
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<p>My mom, dad, me, and my 2 siblings have free health care till my mom dies because she works for the state - at least I think it is till she dies. It might include me for life too.</p>
<p>I feel like I will be… somehow. I mean with my income and my future spouse’s income it should be pretty high soo… (or I hope) I’m gonna be in the film industry somewhere so hopefully it’ll pay alot… or enough.</p>
<p>Nah. I’ll never be “rich”. I’ve already decided I’m going to turn down any promotion to partner.</p>
<p>…meaning my income is capped at $250k+bonus if I’m in Toronto, $310k+bonus if I’m in New York. Adjusted for cost of living…Toronto sounds great lol. All those numbers are pretax figures so 1/5 of that for take-home pay.</p>
<p>I basically want a nice condo, some pocket change to blow on stuff like going out, clothes, and gifts when I need to, some nice toys/gadgets, a good amount of money (or in the alternative, a huge stash of frequent flyer miles), good health insurance (hence, Canada), a healthy amount of savings, eat/cook any food I desire (short of kobe beef and truffles-I do like cooking, it’s therapeutic) and MAYBE a decent car. I haven’t decided if I’m even going to get one. In exchange for paying $1k a month on HOA dues for a city condo, I’ll pass on the car. Go zipcar, yay 
And like I said on the parents’ forum, if I can’t do this as a single male on $150k a year, I should never have graduated from elementary school.</p>
<p>Oh, and a king-size tempur-pedic bed will be my financial downfall (at $3k for just the mattress, it most certainly will! )</p>
<p>Oh, and if I get married, it’s going to be to someone who makes just as much money as me (if not more) and just as smart as me. I don’t want anyone depend on me, nor do I want to be dependent on anyone either. And finances will be run as two separate households. Condo+tax+HOA, I pay. Vacation house, you pay. That kind of thing. I’m going to lay this all out. This weeds out oh, 100% of the women out looking for money (they won’t get any from me-separate bank accounts, credit cards, tax returns).</p>
<p>I’ll probably make that much money too ($250k-ish). The legal profession is the kind of place where people do make that kind of money. And yes, money is part of the consideration (I admit that openly, there’s nothing wrong with that). But if I wanted to just make money, I’d go into finance. I just find the law more interesting (as much as I hate staying up till 4AM reading a case for the 4th time).</p>
<p>I plan to be rich enough to buy everything real. Real leather jacket and shoes, real wool coat, real ipod not some generic crappy mp3 player. Plus an awesome car cuz it’s just fun to accelerate fast and speed ;)</p>
<p>futurenyustudent-- don’t hold your breath. There are a lot of broke lawyers these days. My manager at Waldenbooks was an NYU law grad.</p>
<p>Good luck not only finding a woman who makes as much money as you do, but doesn’t want any kids to depend on you. :P</p>
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<p>There are a lot of lawyers and bankers and doctors in federal prison too. Jeff Skilling is a Harvard MBA and worked for McKinsey-he’s doing 25 years in Federal Pound me in the Ass Prison. What’s your point?</p>
<p>Romance is fine. Romance+money=deadly.</p>
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<p>That’s a nice country you must live in if you don’t pay taxes on your $48,000/yr salary.</p>
<p>I want to be able to afford:
decent house in a nice area of houston or a high rise in downtown houston. This is probably something that is ~500k.
A corvette (can be used, I really like all 97+ corvettes) (a new corvette with the things I want is ~50k, but used are much less)
To be able to always have a nice PC (I see that is a recurring thing in this thread), I build PCs and I like to have new parts. (2k to build a PC I want, every 2 years)
to be able to pay for my kids to go to good colleges (maybe not full costs of an Ivy, but at least enough money to be able to pay for a instate flagship university)
I want to be able to see AC/DC front row and maybe backstage pass whenever they come to town. :P. ($$$$, but worth it).
This is about it, I guess. Oh, and I will def. get a prenuptial, I don’t want all my stuff stolen from me.
I don’t think all that is too much to ask, and my parents could have afforded that easily.
(well 4 years ago we moved away from Houston to NM and moved down a class, I will never understand why, but in 2005, my parents could have easily afforded all of this).</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> so many materialistic people these days. 100K is very rich to me. i hate how people say ‘i don’t consider myself rich’ when to most of the population they are. the most people ever say is they’re middle upper class. Some people have such high standards.</p>
<p>no, I think if I was rich I would give a lot of it away.</p>