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Goldiegirl

Karmacat wrote: »

I rented it out to go live with my boyfriend in Kingston - that was Awfully Nice, Dontcha Know http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57830831.html that sort of place.

Mr Goldie's family originated in a Battersea back street, and a lot of them gradually moved south and west, so there's various cousins around the Kingston area - they are not posh though!


The type of two bedroomed maisonette (upstairs or downstairs, not the whole house!) that Mr Goldie's grandparents and 7 children lived in


http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/39531812?search_identifier=4e76d60504c5bcb59e2afc2e1165c786#OEDspijflsMlJowf.97



It's a very desirable address now

AlexLK

Have to say I disagree about the generational "envy". I can't say I'd liked to have lived my father's life and had his struggles to deal with when younger which I think were quite common to his generation unless born into a wealthy family. From what he's recently told me his parents rented a mid-terrace and didn't even hope to buy their own home, had no car and very little money. Children these days don't have "handed down" clothes, jam sandwiches for dinner, a "tin bath" and no electricity in their homes. Thankfully, you don't hear of my generation being brought up in those circumstances.

turtlemoose

My son has probably 75% second hand clothes, probably around the 40% mark for my clothes. :rotfl:

I spent plenty of days in my early twenties in a flat that had an electricity supply, but couldn't afford to put any on the meter. Thankfully I didn't have my son then - but it's not hard to imagine there's plenty people out there who do have children and money is that tight.

Goldiegirl

AlexLK wrote: »

Have to say I disagree about the generational "envy". I can't say I'd liked to have lived my father's life and had his struggles to deal with when younger which I think were quite common to his generation unless born into a wealthy family. From what he's recently told me his parents rented a mid-terrace and didn't even hope to buy their own home, had no car and very little money. Children these days don't have "handed down" clothes, jam sandwiches for dinner, a "tin bath" and no electricity in their homes. Thankfully, you don't hear of my generation being brought up in those circumstances.

Although he's your dad, you were born when he was relatively mature, so on average he's probably two generations away from you.


I was talking more about people having generational envy of the generation directly above them - i.e about 20 years older


PS Until I was 13 we had a tin bath AND an outside toilet..... but it doesn't seem to have done me any harm!

smallholdingsister

My children wear hand-me-downs, Alex. I never did.
However I wished I could since all the posh kids did...

HelenDaveKids

My kids all have hand me down clothes, my and my bf also frequently clothes swap. I always pass clothes on too.

edinburgher

No problem with generational envy here, just get annoyed when other generations don't realise the advantages that they had. I'm well aware of all the blessings that we have as generation Y

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

No problem with generational envy here, just get annoyed when other generations don't realise the advantages that they had.

Agreed, Ed, thats what I was trying to say in my post at the end of the previous page, in a much less concise way.

Actually I *do* envy Generation X, Y, whatever, because they'll (hopefully) get to see more of the restart in the space programme. I can't help it, I want science fiction to become reality

In other news ... I've added a thousand words to the garlic book - I know you didn't mean to push, but I used your mention of it for my own ends, and it's gone nicely. Ta muchly :kisses3:

AlexLK

Not sure anyone would let their children wear the type of clothes my father talked about being "handed down", to be honest. These days, I think being frugal is more a choice. Also today we're all lucky enough to have the NHS and not have supplies rationed due to war.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Although he's your dad, you were born when he was relatively mature, so on average he's probably two generations away from you.

I was talking more about people having generational envy of the generation directly above them - i.e about 20 years older

PS Until I was 13 we had a tin bath AND an outside toilet..... but it doesn't seem to have done me any harm!

According to the "Generation Calculator" my parents are (only just) three generations away. Both were born in the "Silent Generation". Mother doesn't remember WWII but father does having been born in 1935. I was born in 1980 making me a Millennial (always thought that referred to children born in the year 2000 before today).

I'm not saying circumstances of the past have done anyone harm but do think they were much tougher.

edinburgher

Karmacat wrote: »

In other news ... I've added a thousand words to the garlic book - I know you didn't mean to push, but I used your mention of it for my own ends, and it's gone nicely. Ta muchly :kisses3:

I still want to read it, not just being polite

AlexLK wrote: »

I'm not saying circumstances of the past have done anyone harm but do think they were much tougher.

Yes, I think that's a fair assertion. Unfortunately hedonic adaptation is a thing and the better life gets, the more we all want. It's human nature!

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