If your goal is to have what he has, you can make it happen in 5-10 years. A decent job or hardcore hustling (sell something), you can make 200k a year and have all the things he has. Not that difficult.
>>jillyb+nQ
I have friends in the U.K. and Sweden. They are making well over 200k these days. They might be exceptions but there are people making 100k in software and a very common salary for the field in the EU too.