I remember spending around 20000 BEF per month when I lived in Brussels. At that time, it was around $400. However, three of us shared one appartment. So I guess you could survive with a measly $250,000...

NetDanzr: this 20 a month, did it include your rent?

The vast majority of it was rent. But three of us rented a 2-bedroom appartment and split the cost. That was in '99...

k, then it makes sense... For a moment there I was under the impression you spend 20 a motnh on food, gas and leisure which means really living it large

Why would you want to be in the highest tax bracket? It's hideous! I could EASILY live in my own house, if I were single, on $50K a year. Plus I'd probably do some job anyway because it would be quite boring sitting around all day.

Tuss

Damn, I'm living on NZ$840 per month (?403.40, £252.80, US$393.35), and I thought I had it bad

sterge10: I'm going with you on this one, I want the Dodge Viper!

I'm just looking at the 2003 model and drooling over it. Mmmmmm... imagine the status symbol on that car eh?

If I was to spend this amount of money on a car I would definitely not go for a Viper... Back in the days when I was drooling over supercars as a kid - looking inside just to see how far the speedometer would go and such - the Lamborghini Countach was the ultimate ride...

I've yet to see a car more 80's than the Countach and I still think it rules all other road cars by far... But maybe that's just nostalgia talking...

Ah, the good old days

My favorite car would definatly be a ferrari spider or a T-bird classic (still haven't decided which one I like most)... but if I had $250k to spare I would never spend it all on a car...

The Spider version of what model? As you probably know Ferrari has a long history and a Spider is just the name for a convertible Ferrari I think... By the way if I was going for a Ferrari I'd go for their huge 80's monster, the 512TR Testarossa. They don't make cars that look that fast anymore, I hate all that 90's curvy design, which is why I dislike Porsches and Vipers also...

I'm quite sure I'd never spend it on a car, but I've been thinking about it and haven't figured out what I would spend it on then... So I think I would just put it on the bank (being quite paranoid about the stock market) and use it as an extra, or a retirement fund...

[Edit: How about the apostrophes on 80's and 90's? are those wrong also?]

Edited by The Mole at 20:57 on September, 10th 2002

Correct. There are so many more things you could buy with $200K. Like a wife!

Tuss

I was reffering to the ferrari 360 Modena Spider... Sweet



And Tuss, you pay for women? Strange days indeed

Edited by Pada1 at 21:19 on September, 10th 2002

Delos: as nice as the 2003 model might be, I was really liking the final run special edition gts.

I did the make your own Viper and with all the extras it comes to about $90,000US which is around $180-190k Aus, so I would have some of that $250,000 to spare

The Mole: I dislike Lamborghini's purely because they have those stupid doors. Porsches are overrated and crap I dislike them as well, but however I love Vipers allways have and allways will

Edited by sterge10 at 02:06 on September, 11th 2002

?400 of pocket money with additional free living. That's what I call rich

Just goes to show that no matter how much/little money one has, he always thinks he has not enough...

Nooooo, that's not rich, I spend most of that on rent (approx. ?145.74), food (approx. ?97.17), and the rest on phone bills (High speed internet and toll calls), electricity, and miscellaneous things.

I don't have free living at all!!

I'm struggling to save, and I had to ask my parents for some money, and being the helpful parents that they are they gave me a check which takes one week to clear , so I sit here and wait with bills I can't pay until it clears.

Oh, and I might add that my house is extremely cheap for the area I live in!

sterge10: If you didn't see Ripley's Believe It Or Not, the 2003 Dodge Viper has a faster take off then a F16 with it's afterburners going!

[quote]Posted by Delos at 23:52 on September, 11th 2002:



Yes that also happens to be totally useless on the streets except of course if you are doing illegal drag racing

?145.74 is even way less than I'd pay as rent in Hamburg's 'slums'. A normal one-room-kitchen-bathroom flat is ?250 (excluding all extra costs like electicity, water and so on) here and that is approximately what I'm paying.

I live on about $20 Aus a month

I'm pretty sure a Dodge Viper doesn't take off...

I get your point though

It can! Oh wait.... I've just been playing too much Stunt Island