Cankles-McJeggings A lot of stealth wealth too in the UK. Benefitting from inheritance, parents downsizing, and the high house prices in the UK. Polarisation of incomes/wealth in the UK is getting more pronounced. Plus a lot of people get financed up to the hilt with the hedge being equity in their homes/granny about to pop their clogs and bequeath the Highgate pile.
Tax bandings in the UK are ridiculous vs the US. You start playing the highest rate of about 37% in the US after about $350K ……here you start getting clobbered 40% after about $50K. Thats absolutely nuts.
Oh…you get the NHS as part of that though. Good luck getting anything done though or getting an appointment with its strangulated funding. Makes you think where all those tax £ are going, right?