"alan_m" wrote in message
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On 17/11/2017 12:32, Yellow wrote:


Instead we all have 10th hand cars that we'd help each other to keep
running, we had holidays in Blackpool if at all and would only go to the
pub on pay day. And we *all* lived at home with our parents while we
saved for a house deposit rather than wasting it on rent!

+1 And most of my friends at the time were doing the same.

Not all of them tho. One mate of mine got a new car
while still in school. Not much of a car, Ford Anglia.

I got an ancient Fiat 500, the 4 cylinder one, from
my dad's sister. I replaced that with a Fiat 1100 some
time later while at uni and bought a new VW Beetle
when working for the uni as a demonstrator while
doing an MSc part time.