There's shed loads of disposable income in Ireland now - look at the age profile of a lot of the people driving the 45k+ sports cars - most of them would be in the "young kids" bracket. And even though the average parents have less kids these days the costs are much greater.
What I can't help wondering is how many people are spending everything and not really planning for the future (how boring am I
). I know at least one person who remortgaged for a fancy wedding and a new car (madness). On the flip side I work with some traders making easily a 6 figure salary and 6 figure bonus and none (yes none) of them drive anything more than an 07 A3!! Everything is going into pension..... smart b**stards if you ask me ....