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orange7 03-08-2009 08:03 PM

i think there's a girl who drives a r8 to UBC, and she is powered by her parents..

i also know of another girl who also goes to ubc and drives a m3 convertible. She is powered by her single parent - dad.

one of my university friends drives a porsche carrera convertible. He is powered by his parents who work as lawyers in China.

Death2Theft 03-08-2009 08:36 PM

Alot more than 100k I hope since thats the topic.

Even then there are a bunch of buy it now 2009 turbo cabs on ebay for 160k range.

2005 turbo cab with 13k on the clock for 60k range.
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Originally Posted by asian_XL (Post 6319170)
^ err..do you really know how much for the 911 turbo?


q0192837465 03-09-2009 03:45 PM

i make <18k/year & i have a hard time getting by. I wonder why.

t8v6 03-09-2009 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6319346)
i think there's a girl who drives a r8 to UBC, and she is powered by her parents..

i also know of another girl who also goes to ubc and drives a m3 convertible. She is powered by her single parent - dad.

one of my university friends drives a porsche carrera convertible. He is powered by his parents who work as lawyers in China.

r8 girl's dad owns bmw dealership at richmond automall i think =/

t8v6 03-09-2009 05:02 PM

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Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6319346)
i think there's a girl who drives a r8 to UBC, and she is powered by her parents..

i also know of another girl who also goes to ubc and drives a m3 convertible. She is powered by her single parent - dad.

one of my university friends drives a porsche carrera convertible. He is powered by his parents who work as lawyers in China.

r8 girl's dad owns bmw dealership at richmond automall i think =/

orange7 03-09-2009 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by t8v6 (Post 6320650)
r8 girl's dad owns bmw dealership at richmond automall i think =/


Lol.. and she drives an Audi....

HonestTea 03-09-2009 05:49 PM

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Originally Posted by t8v6 (Post 6320650)
r8 girl's dad owns bmw dealership at richmond automall i think =/

Negatory, Brian Jessel BMW

Great68 03-09-2009 05:58 PM

I respect the people that can BUILD nice cars more than the ones that can BUY them.

bimmer91 03-09-2009 06:01 PM

Can anyone specifically explain what you guys mean by 'INVESTEMENTS'

Everyone is saying this so at least i would want to know.

jigga250 03-09-2009 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by bimmer91 (Post 6320743)
Can anyone specifically explain what you guys mean by 'INVESTEMENTS'

Everyone is saying this so at least i would want to know.

don't worry about it

half these guys are just pretending to know what they're talking about

Marco911 03-09-2009 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Death2Theft (Post 6319421)
Alot more than 100k I hope since thats the topic.

Even then there are a bunch of buy it now 2009 turbo cabs on ebay for 160k range.

2005 turbo cab with 13k on the clock for 60k range.

I see you've been price shopping 911s. Keep dreaming. :)

A nice, clean C4S is easily over $100K+. After taxes, you can be $120++

Marco911 03-09-2009 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by bimmer91 (Post 6320743)
Can anyone specifically explain what you guys mean by 'INVESTEMENTS'

Everyone is saying this so at least i would want to know.

That's where you put in some money and try to make as much money in as short a time as possible

Marco911 03-09-2009 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by What_the? (Post 6317464)
Well, what can I say, since Marco911 says Pharmacy is a shitty profession, it must be so...

oh noes

people are catching on... it's true, it's all a sham... I thought we could just slide under the radar, and noone would ever figure out that we're being paid close to a six figure salary, and in some cases over six figures... to put pills in a jar... :(

Information technology is making a pharmacists' job more and more redundant/easier to do. Is it better to rely on a computer database that can instantaneously tell me drug interactions, which will be far more comprehensive and up-to-date than any human's?

Wages are kept artificially high only because the professional body keeps supply of pharmacists limited by making it a difficult degree to obtain. Furthermore, the demand for medical care in wealthy countries is highly inelastic, so ppl can bear a much higher cost for medical care to support these types of professions but it is at a deadweight loss to society. There's a reason businesses and govts have to pay so much for medical care and they're going bankrupt.

In poorer countries, the medical systems can't afford to have such luxuries as pharmacists, and drugs are dispensed directly by nurses or the clinic's receptionist after they are prescribed by doctors.

some_punk 03-09-2009 10:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Great68 (Post 6320739)
I respect the people that can BUILD nice cars more than the ones that can BUY them.

Same here, any rich guy can buy an expensive car. But building a car from ground up is way more respectable

kc1337 03-10-2009 12:45 PM

So whos spoiled here? Lets have a tally of parent powered list of users going

hal0g0dv2 03-10-2009 12:49 PM

me i have 6 lambos

cool moe D 03-10-2009 01:33 PM

I dont hate on the rich kids that rely on they parents' money because it's the parents who worked hard or whatever they did to get that money so naturally, they're going to want to give their kids the things they might not have had themselves when they were younger. And if the kids flaunt it, they do so because they're young and dumb. In the end, if the dumb showoffs live their lives dependent on their parents and don't learn how to earn their own keep, they will just burn through their parents' money eventually and be poor losers.

!YaoShi 03-10-2009 05:10 PM

^
rich dad poor dad.

E=mc˛ 03-10-2009 06:49 PM

man how rich can people overseas be though?

Given the exchange rate, $100,000 CAD is like 600,000 HKD, 533,000 Chinese Yuan, 2.6 million TW dollars....

Seriously man how do they do it? It's not like in HK minimum wage is 6x higher than minimum wage here (to balance out due to the exchange rate). Aren't most people overseas considered poor compared to here?

Like the example of the person who's parents are lawyers in China. Lawyers here make how much 100-200k here? Not like in China they make 6x that amount right? People always say how cheap things are in China/HK/TW and that's primarily due to the exchange rate. Going the other way is extremely unfavourable aint it?

Marco911 03-10-2009 06:53 PM

China is a very corrupt country which creates pockets of extreme wealth at the expense of the poor. In Canada it is more or less a level playing field and society is based on a meritocracy, so it is much harder to become wealthy. As a society, on average, we do better. For example, Marco911 got to where he is purely on his vast talents and merits.

oinkoinkpig 03-10-2009 07:16 PM

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Originally Posted by MXQBLGH (Post 6322698)
man how rich can people overseas be though?

Given the exchange rate, $100,000 CAD is like 600,000 HKD, 533,000 Chinese Yuan, 2.6 million TW dollars....

Seriously man how do they do it? It's not like in HK minimum wage is 6x higher than minimum wage here (to balance out due to the exchange rate). Aren't most people overseas considered poor compared to here?

Like the example of the person who's parents are lawyers in China. Lawyers here make how much 100-200k here? Not like in China they make 6x that amount right? People always say how cheap things are in China/HK/TW and that's primarily due to the exchange rate. Going the other way is extremely unfavourable aint it?

Hong Kong...somewhat no tax

Blinky 03-10-2009 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Marco911 (Post 6322704)
China is a very corrupt country which creates pockets of extreme wealth at the expense of the poor. In Canada it is more or less a level playing field and society is based on a meritocracy, so it is much harder to become wealthy. As a society, on average, we do better. For example, Marco911 got to where he is purely on his vast talents and merits.

C'mon Marco, even you've admitted that you were set up (or born into) in a favourable socioeconomic situation. :D Granted, you've apparently made use of that situation, so thumbs up to you.

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man how rich can people overseas be though?
Do you really think that the immigrants that you see here form a representative sample of people in Asia? You do have the "rich" immigrants who are middle or upper middle class - businessmen etc etc (the ones whose children drive Bimmers and Benzes), and you also have some working class immigrants (whose children don't). Then you have the working and poor folk in Asia who couldn't even dream of emigrating.

orange7 03-10-2009 10:21 PM

so much hate in this world...


this is a car forum.. we discuss about cars, not how we got those cars...

Marco911 03-10-2009 11:13 PM

[QUOTE=Blinky;6323051]C'mon Marco, even you've admitted that you were set up (or born into) in a favourable socioeconomic situation. :D Granted, you've apparently made use of that situation, so thumbs up to you.

Hmm. Good point. :thumbsup:


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