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  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Thrugelmir wrote: »
    Within Glasgow there's 2 distinct areas within 5 miles of each other. As a male your average life expectancy is around 35 years more if in you are in one area rather than the other.

    That is the UK of today. A wide divergence depending on social and economic circumstances.

    Are you saying there are areas of Glasgow with a life expentancy of around 50?
  • Thrugelmir
    Thrugelmir Posts: 89,546 Forumite
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    ILW wrote: »
    Are you saying there are areas of Glasgow with a life expentancy of around 50?

    Correct. The UK is hardly a beacon of social equality.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Are they all druggies there or something.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Are they all druggies there or something.

    Drugs, booze, smoking, poor diets, minimal exercise. The usual gubbins.
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    Just an everage life expentancy of 50 does sound very low. I would suspect it is a very small area and a bit of an anomaly.
  • FTBFun
    FTBFun Posts: 4,273 Forumite
    ILW wrote: »
    Just an everage life expentancy of 50 does sound very low. I would suspect it is a very small area and a bit of an anomaly.

    Little old but this explains the difference a bit:

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7584450.stm
  • mbga9pgf
    mbga9pgf Posts: 3,224 Forumite
    Yes. And addicted to deep fried mars bars.
  • HAMISH_MCTAVISH
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH Posts: 28,592 Forumite
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    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    Yes. And addicted to deep fried mars bars.

    And equally addicted to knife crime.;)

    Still, Darwinism in action and all that.....
    “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

    Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
    -- President John F. Kennedy”
  • chucky
    chucky Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    ILW wrote: »
    Sorry, badly phrased, what I meant was is it accepted that there is nothing that can be done about the current way over target inflation? Or has it just been decided to let it run?
    there are different ways to tackle current inflation, increasing rates isn't one. i don't think that inflation is priority at the moment.

    there are bigger economic issues to deal with.
  • geneer
    geneer Posts: 4,220 Forumite
    edited 13 May 2011 at 1:04PM
    HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »
    We'd like to distract attention from the fact that pensioners are 47% better off in real terms than they were a decade ago.

    And that pensioners income has risen by 3 times as much as working people's earnings in the last decade

    http://www.dwp.gov.uk/docs/dwp048-11.pdf

    So please raise interest rates so we can effect an even bigger transfer of wealth from young people to old, and us SAGA members can be EVEN MORE well off than we are now.

    Thanks....

    SAGA

    Don't know what you're complaining about Spamish.
    You've got the whiff of boomer about you.
    I'm guessing you received this info in your usual monthly magazine.
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