The article is a bit hyperbole but truthfully folks do think like this. My other half has bought into the private school and insanly priced brands mantra. Eve

The article is a bit hyperbole but truthfully folks do think like this. My other half has bought into the private school and insanly priced brands mantra. Everyone successful and older than us is saying you _need_ to send your kids to private school pretty much from the start, but I can't really do the Math and see anything but a life of struggling for money it requires. Combine this with property prices and I'm actually willing to believe the £500,000 figure isn't far off to have the same life as their parents generation have been able to achieve, but alas I grew up poor and I don't subscribe to needing any of this sillyness.