EMA747, 30 years old and no commitments! no wife, no kids, no family, right?
no mortgage, no car,,,,,woops, you do need a car, you can always sleep in it! (I have been sleeping in my Hotel Mondeo now at gliding clubs for years....they laugh at me, but I withdraw from the noisy social scene to a private quiet corner, and you can't do that with a caravan with any agility).
So a PPL, what is it good for? I am eternally thankful that at the age of 50, my husband of 27 years ran off with his secretary, and I decided to do something mad, went for a trial lesson in a glider at High Wycombe.
Never looked back. Now, in the fulness of time, have 1400 hours in power, and 1800 in gliders. PPL, IR, Seaplane rating. Gliding triple Diamond. Flown in competitions, in Wales, Scotland, the Alps, the Soviet Union (!) toured France and Spain in my supercub, which I could afford only because it was used to pull up gliders. And that tremendous total of hours was mostly from tugging and from teaching. Still love it.
But the sensation of purest delight was that FIRST SOLO. In a K13 glider, over the M40, looking down at those wankers driving their BMW hunky machines and feeling completely absolutely magically above them all in every way! So right.
Money can't buy it, you have to work at it.