On 09/02/2020 16:06, Mike Collins wrote:

The average UK salary is £36Kpa which means take home around £2K per month of which £500 will be spent to feed a driving habit rather than looking after family.
These people need help.

£500 a month buys a lot of car-use. It probably refers to more than one car.

Are you sure you meant "average UK salary" and not "average UK household
income"?

Current government stats have average (median) full time earnings at
£585 a week (just over £30,000 gross - much less net). Household income
will be higher than that.

AIH, I don't think I've ever been in the habit of spoending £500 a month
in car expenses. Not even including HP repayments. Well, when it did
exceed that for quite a while, I was collecting something between £500
and £1,000 a month in travelling (car-use) expenses. I certainly wasn't
paying £500 a month out of my own pocket (hardly anything, if anything
at all, in fact). But of course, I am not holding out my case as
representing the "average" (however defined).