Millennials

[heatmeiser]

Do you know when the millennium started mate. It wasn't 1979

So were millennials all born in 2000?

 

[Baines' left foot]

Me and my two best mates have the following cars aged 27, Ford Fiesta, Citroen saxo, Nissan micra. The newest of which is 2001. [Poor language removed] wagons they most certainly are not.

The BMW crowd are the 9-5 accountant pristinely coiffed ultra metrosexual types.

I think a lot of people live beyond their means and aren't necessarily high earners at a young age.

One of the safety advisors in work who is my age recently got a BMW 1 M Sport. I'm guessing that's about £50k of car. He lives with his mum.

Another lad I used to work with was 23 and had an AMG E Class Convertible who also lived with his parents. It cost him about £1k a month all in. He was always at the bottom of his overdraft though.

 

[DualityNSNO]

I think a lot of people live beyond their means and aren't necessarily high earners at a young age.

One of the safety advisors in work who is my age recently got a BMW 1 M Sport. I'm guessing that's about £50k of car. He lives with his mum.

Another lad I used to work with was 23 and had an AMG E Class Convertible who also lived with his parents. It cost him about £1k a month all in. He was always at the bottom of his overdraft though.

Both cars together cost about 50k, unless the 23 year old bought the 2017/18 model like...

 

[chrismpw]

Me and my two best mates have the following cars aged 27, Ford Fiesta, Citroen saxo, Nissan micra. The newest of which is 2001. [Poor language removed] wagons they most certainly are not.

The BMW crowd are the 9-5 accountant pristinely coiffed ultra metrosexual types.

Perhaps I should have said "not many" rather than "any" millennials.

To be fair to them (many not all) , they have to get shiny new cars since they couldn't possibly find time to repair and maintain old ones, in between their beauty regimes and flicking through magazines telling them how to dress.

 

[COYBL25]

I think a lot of people live beyond their means and aren't necessarily high earners at a young age.

One of the safety advisors in work who is my age recently got a BMW 1 M Sport. I'm guessing that's about £50k of car. He lives with his mum.

Another lad I used to work with was 23 and had an AMG E Class Convertible who also lived with his parents. It cost him about £1k a month all in. He was always at the bottom of his overdraft though.

The thing is mate, they've been force fed a utopia by the multi nationals and the advertising industry / media.

I had two mates, late thirties who on paper lived the dream ( in debt ). The house, thr clothes, the cars, the motorbike, the places to eat, the holidays etc.

When they got divorced they walked away with 2k each after clearing their debts.

Their whole lifestyle was based on debt, they didn't even own their clothes, as they were on store cards.

The frightening thing was that it didn't bother them one bit that they owed over 100k on loans, store cards, credit cards etc.

It was all about " appearing " to have it all.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Both cars together cost about 50k, unless the 23 year old bought the 2017/18 model like...

It's a 17 reg but it's the fastest version. An M1 basically. Something daft like 400bhp. He's obsessed with it.

Still lives with his mum though.

 

[COYBL25]

It's a 17 reg but it's the fastest version. An M1 basically. Something daft like 400bhp. He's obsessed with it.

Still lives with his mum though.

The insurance must cost as much as the car !!!!

 

[Sapie88]

Perhaps I should have said "not many" rather than "any" millennials.

To be fair to them (many not all) , they have to get shiny new cars since they couldn't possibly find time to repair and maintain old ones, in between their beauty regimes and flicking through magazines telling them how to dress.

I think I class as a millennial, albeit an older one, but I know my way around a car engine.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

I think a lot of people live beyond their means and aren't necessarily high earners at a young age.

One of the safety advisors in work who is my age recently got a BMW 1 M Sport. I'm guessing that's about £50k of car. He lives with his mum.

Another lad I used to work with was 23 and had an AMG E Class Convertible who also lived with his parents. It cost him about £1k a month all in. He was always at the bottom of his overdraft though.

Very materialistic and about appearances and status. You're a London lad so I can imagine that is far more prevalent there than where I am, on an island. Though it is becoming more that way due to the rich e-gaming trade and the influx of South Africans etc coming over to work.

Sounds like the type of lads who will realise in a few years that all these shiny possessions aren't making them truly happy.

Perhaps I should have said "not many" rather than "any" millennials.

To be fair to them (many not all) , they have to get shiny new cars since they couldn't possibly find time to repair and maintain old ones, in between their beauty regimes and flicking through magazines telling them how to dress.

It's a good point, between fake tanning sessions and manicures, there's simply no time to fix a wingmirror.

 

[Baines' left foot]

Very materialistic and about appearances and status. You're a London lad so I can imagine that is far more prevalent there than where I am, on an island. Though it is becoming more that way due to the rich e-gaming trade and the influx of South Africans etc coming over to work.

Sounds like the type of lads who will realise in a few years that all these shiny possessions aren't making them truly happy.



It's a good point, between fake tanning sessions and manicures, there's simply no time to fix a wingmirror.

In London it's not common to own a car, whereas back home most good looking girls wouldn't look at me twice with my 06 Polo. Plus most people here are renting a room in a house and are a bit skint. So people have less money to be showy about it I suppose.

Back home it seems to be a race to get a german saloon and a mortgage. I'd say it's worse there in many ways.

I'm too busy selecting what trendy sleeve tattoo I want next to do any car maintenance. It will definitely have a clock face in it though. Only God can judge me.

 

[COYBL25]

In London it's not common to own a car, whereas back home most good looking girls wouldn't look at me twice with my 06 Polo. Plus most people here are renting a room in a house and are a bit skint. So people have less money to be showy about it I suppose.

Back home it seems to be a race to get a german saloon and a mortgage. I'd say it's worse there in many ways.

I'm too busy selecting what trendy sleeve tattoo I want next to do any car maintenance. It will definitely have a clock face in it though. Only God can judge me.

You are a God already, so no need to worry x

 

[Sapie88]

You are a God already, so no need to worry x

The Heswall Adonis.

 

[COYBL25]

The Heswall Adonis.

Hercules of the Heath

 

[Sapie88]

Hercules of the Heath

The 7th wonder of the Wirral.

 

[COYBL25]

The 7th wonder of the Wirral.

Like a tattooed version of the Angel of the North lol