A non-ideal life is a step towards financial destruction and what should be pursued first is better financial ability while to fulfill a lifestyle, we must see how far the balance between income and expenses is.
Sure that is true and I also think that what can contribute to such lifestyle in certain places is when someone feels comfortable with what they are seeing around them. Like there are people who are not quite rich in his generation but because they have access to properties, lands etc they can be living lavishly without thinking of how to utilize the inheritance. This kind of attitude are real where you see some people buying cars that are expensive, phones yet they don't have knowledge of investment for the future to bequeath to the upcoming generation. Well some people only want to enjoy now and let tomorrow think for itself.