Also - your friends are financial idiots - I can tell that by what you said about them. If they are telling you to buy a house, a car and "live a nice lifestyle" - they don't have money and don't know how much capital it really takes to "live a nice lifestyle." You can't do that on your returns safely until you hit low 8 figures (which you can at your age with your nest egg) net worth.

Do not buy a house - buy a multiunit building - live in one unit, rent the rest. Thereby you both get a great cash producing investment and you also eliminate your housing expense completely - accelerating the race to more wealth.