The others are misleading you with very limited perspectives. Are you comparing yourself to the father and the kid together or just the kid? The kid is using th

The others are misleading you with very limited perspectives. Are you comparing yourself to the father and the kid together or just the kid? The kid is using the parents' space. And while house prices have shot up recently pricing out the current generation, the parents are obviously not of the current generation. Housing in that part of New Jersey used to be quite cheap. They might be doing fairly well, but nothing he's done requires it. Frankly, a lot of what he's done suggests more blue collar access to tools, a truck, and ability to work with your hands fixing things. The article says the microscope was $1k. That's about 750 GBP. The kid didn't make the purchase at the market rate when he just happpened to feel like it. He jumped at the right point when an opportunity presented itself. Everyone immersed in some hobby dealing with old equipment comes across such opportunities now and then.