Originally Posted by Raffles

£300k is only £180,000 after tax. I doubt many people with an after-tax income of 'just' £180k would spend £7,500 - £10,000 on a pair of F seats to go on holiday (double that if they take a couple of kids). Especially once they've paid £30,000 pa for their nanny, £10,000 for nursery fees and £100,000 towards clearing the £1m mortgage they had to take out to buy a rotting Victorian terraced house in a 'middle-ranking but certainly not posh' area.