How much are you earning per annum?

Originally Posted by money no enough

48 years old.
90K per annum.
Financial services.
Landed fully paid.

would you consider downgrading your landed to a cheaper condo and get a early retirement?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

As the above poster said, this is called survivorship bias. Those who do well tend to talk more about it, while those not doing so well will be lurking in the forum and not posting any messages.

This is like your secondary school or JC reunion, where the successful ones tend to show up and share stories, while those not doing so well will find excuses not to come. And you wonder why every ex-classmate you meet at reunions is so successful.

This is where you get it totally wrong, those who are successful will not show up, coz you are already out of his league. Those who talk much are those who did moderately, and those who talk less are those who did not do too well.

Originally Posted by money no enough

48 years old.
90K per annum.
Financial services.
Landed fully paid.

You mean you already bought yourself a lot at Lim Chu Kang? It's lease hold at 30 years. Last I noe, it's cheap, about 280 psf...haha....Now Bt Brown cheaper...but no more subsale liao...1st hand owner who bought from developer kena enbloc...haha

Originally Posted by Richie

This is where you get it totally wrong, those who are successful will not show up, coz you are already out of his league. Those who talk much are those who did moderately, and those who talk less are those who did not do too well.

isn't that what the original post says? you only add another uber class of bill gates, which is quite pointless

Originally Posted by Unregistered

isn't that what the original post says? you only add another uber class of bill gates, which is quite pointless

The unsuccessful like to play down others' achievements by comparing with pointless benchmarks like bill gates, so that everyone is deemed as unsuccessful as themselves when compared with bill gates; or saying that everyone will die one day and become the same as them.

Like someone comparing the financial services guy's landed property compared with a burial plot. Isn't that even more pointless?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

You mean you already bought yourself a lot at Lim Chu Kang? It's lease hold at 30 years. Last I noe, it's cheap, about 280 psf...haha....Now Bt Brown cheaper...but no more subsale liao...1st hand owner who bought from developer kena enbloc...haha

35 years old
200K per annum
Upper management in MNC
Freehold landed in D15 (8 more yrs to pay off loan)
BMW 5 series
S$800K cash in bank waiting for good investment opportunity

Originally Posted by Money no enough too

35 years old
200K per annum
Upper management in MNC
Freehold landed in D15 (8 more yrs to pay off loan)
BMW 5 series
S$800K cash in bank waiting for good investment opportunity

I'm same age, making half as much, but have more cash than you!

50 years old, earning only $100k pa
Finance, 2 kids, condo worth $1m fully paid
I'm feeling depressed looking at all the 30 somethings here earning so much
Are these guys real? Or am I really a loser?
If they are real, no wonder property prices keep rising.

Hi all,

I have a sad story to tell. I have been working hard for a large MNC for the past 15 years. I help grow the company. And now I am retrenched due to office politics. I am only 45 years old with lots of responsibiities.

I am in real estate sale leader.

43k basic + 7 months this year. Next year not good at all.

Worked long hours six days a week.