My question is. I always wondered where the Asian families get their money from because they seem to be the only ones buying now.
When I go out with my Asian wife and her family, talk is about money and little else. If you buy anything you will be grilled about how much you paid and invariably told where you could have bought it cheaper. Chinese supermarkets are huge, offer a huge variety, and are much cheaper. A party of eight can eat in a Chinese restaurant for the same price as two in your average posh nosh joint. Houses, cars and education are priorities, but I am often surprised at how frugally some homes are furnished. So in answer to the above question, one answer may lie in home economics, as much as it does in earnings. Taiwanese women are great with money and run very tight ships. There is a large sub economy that exists, that allows the Asian community both to be semi autonomous and frugal, thus enabling leverage in the economy as a whole.
