I got nowhere back in 2013.

But today I signed up at Flintshire flying school and have my first lesson on wednesday :)

Consider average charter flight 2 hrs. or less. I use 25k for each trip. Most times it's the flight, then empty return, then empty pickup, then trip home..
Once a month is $300k per year. New VLJ will set you back 5 mil. min so you can charter your ass off for over 16 years while your savings are earning money.

Lovely thought, and I too once had dreams. But I also remember 40 years ago when good avionics became available at a reasonable price (if you can call £2000 for my DME190 a reasonable price in 1981). Then another £2000+ for a King 160 nav-com. Similar gear appeared on Cherokees and Cessnas. The next development was offset waypoints and RMI which went beyond my reach, I passed my IR with simple old ADF and much effort.

Of course all these electronic aids made IMC quite easy, didn't they? Weather was nothing to worry about when you had the right gear. Within the year our most enthusiastic proponent of offset waypoints flew into a mountain. Another wealthy man took off in his lovely aeroplane on a night when even the Aztec air taxis were grounded. Months later his mainwheel appeared in the nets of a trawler in the Irish Sea. The moral is that you can have all the fancy equipment or airframe you want, but it is only as safe as its operator. Proficiency cannot be bought ...