Salad Dodger
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On the other end of hte spectrum, I know someone who works three jobs to make ends meet. She drives a new BMW 2 series convertible. Good luck to her. She told me she deserves to treat herself. If it were me needing three jobs, I would treat myself by NOT buying such an expensive (for her) car. But there you go; to each their own.
We used to live in North Kent in a London "dormitory" town. There was a lot of "keeping up with, or preferably getting ahead of, the Jones's". I used to say that most of the mums drove their big cars to the school to drop their kids off, because they had to rush off to work straight afterwards. To pay for the big car that they could be seen in at the school gates.......
Fortunately, we never (literally) bought into that lifestyle. So now we have retired to a little house near the seaside, with a small car, a modest pension income which supports our modest lifestyle, and we are happier than we have ever been.
I know what the OP means about people working stupid hours. I fell into it myself for a while, but am so glad to be away from that culture......