It's a weird one. These people are horrific with money. The woman was successful in pharma sales for like 5 years in the late 90's, and lived like a queen with no job ever since. Her husband was a tennis coach at the local high school and retired in his early 50's for...reasons? We helped them move out of their house when they had to short sale it to prevent foreclosure. Then they moved into a swanky loft apt in downtown Detroit, which we never understood how they could afford it, and was there for a few years until we heard they got evicted. Now the woman just posts on facebook every week from a different country on cruise ships. Still no idea where income is coming from, but they seem to be living on cruise ships exclusively now.Desertbreh wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 12:50 pmWHAT?ChrisoftheNorth wrote: ↑Thu Dec 15, 2022 11:18 am
We know some people who got their house repo'd, evicted from their apartment so they're effectively homeless, yet somehow travel all over the world on cruises and whatnot. "Retired" without a dime to their names, they must be blowing social security money on travel or something.
They're the parents of some friends of ours, who are about our age. They're equally horrific with money, currently near 6 figures in CC debt (didn't know it could get that high) after making an absolute KILLING on a house in a luxury neighborhood in Detroit (legit bought it for $200k and sold it for $800k 4 years later). But they go to Morton's like it's McDonald's, pop out babies like its their jobs (up to 4 now), and refuse to live anything other than the high life.
And yet, they're surviving. Like Max has mentioned, makes it tough to be motivated to be responsible.