That's very very true where I live (Sussex; the land of horse-boxes towed by 7mpg 4x4s) but I don't think most of those are the "motivated" exec types. Most of the ones I see here are women who never had a real job and who married some bloke (any bloke, apparently) who would deliver the horse, the horse trailer, the 4x4, and a nice country pad. When my boys were little I would go to various childrens' parties at these places and the parents rarely acknowledged each other. I thought it was very sad - for their kids who will PROB75 end up with one parent. There are still many marriages today where there is a strong dependence element. What the bloke gets out of it is a mystery, as he is working his ba11s off in some exec job to bring in the 100k+ needed to prop up that whole show. He certainly won't be flying.