'I make £120,000 but I can’t recall the last time we went out for dinner’

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Just thinking about the Can't Touch This video has cheered me up this grey morning. And it cost nothing! Someone should tell the guy in the Torygraph article.

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MrRee wrote: »

I do think it depends with whom you spend your time and your neighbourhood.

If you work where the average salary is £100,000 and those are the people you chat to for 8 hours a day then that's going to affect your perspective .... if you are the one on only £85,000 per annum you're going to feel hard up.

Then when you drive home and turn into your tree-lined avenue of £1 million houses and pull onto the drive of your £850,000 house ... as you drive the car into the triple garage next to the weekend sports car and the wifes Range Rover ... you are going to know that your house is the cheapest in the Avenue - and you feel poor.

Your friends at the Country Inn are Doctors, Dentists, Bankers .... you, again feel really badly done by.

It's easy to feel hard done by down here in leafy Hampshire.

Lets not forget that if your kids are at a private school that's costing you over half your take-home, then they'll be the 'poor kids' in a school full of yacht and jet owners.

So, you'll also have your kids complaining that they feel hard done by too.

redux

Actually, thinking back through it, I wonder if the bloke in the article has been slightly traduced.

Maybe he sent in this report to the paper as a PR measure to promote his firm, then was called back for a general chat which had some personal anecdotal details and was then converted into a published interview without him realising.

PasturesNew

MrRee wrote: »

It's easy to feel hard done by down here in leafy Hampshire.

MrRee wrote: »

I could earn a lowly £35,000 and live in a poor area and feel rich - see?

I live near you ... wish I could earn a "lowly" sum.... halve that and it's closer to being jobs advertised that I could do.

I want to earn £120k and moan about it .... in the meantime I've got to put up with moaning about earning less

somethingcorporate

chucknorris wrote: »

Not really, although I concede that it might seem strange to someone that isn't particularly bright. Lets be honest here, you have made a complete fool of yourself, it was obviously the title of an MC Hammer song, so the rest wasn't difficult to work out (for most people).

I thought it was actually really clever, subtle humour. She should have quit whilst she was ahead!

mayonnaise

bugslet wrote: »

perhaps Linda is very very young and doesn't know MC Hammer's most famous song. See, I'm a generous soul!

Very generous!

Linda_D isn't very very young, she's an aging, bitter troll. Here's a couple of her better posts.

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Principia_2

redux wrote: »

Actually, thinking back through it, I wonder if the bloke in the article has been slightly traduced.

Maybe he sent in this report to the paper as a PR measure to promote his firm, then was called back for a general chat which had some personal anecdotal details and was then converted into a published interview without him realising.

Could easily be but really even if he's not how he was represented in the paper, there are many out there like him. Someone earlier was saying about how other people expect people like him to be living a certain lifestyle but the money doesn't stretch like it used to - but honestly, it's about these people's sense of entitlement and resentment that their money doesn't stretch as far as they would like.

It's the same eye roll that I try not to do when someone proclaims how little they get out the state after all the taxes they've paid - only infrastructure, probably NHS birth, probably NHS ongoing care, probably child benefit, definitely NHS emergency care, probably education, fire protection, police protection, protection against no income in unemployment, probably an income when you retire...all leading to a stable country. Added to which only the rich pay enough tax over their lifetime to actually pay back all these things on a personal level that everyone takes for granted but goodness me, if someone has to pay for a prescription it's like they've put in a million pounds and now can't even get a penny back!

londonlydia

This is what I call the goldfish principle. Just in the same way as goldfish grow to a size that fits their container, most people grow their lifestyles to fit their earnings.

I will always be grateful for anything I earn, and the stuff that makes my life rich is the stuff that costs nothing. But then although I earn quite well now (I'm 28 and earn 33k pa) I'm from a poor single parent background so appreciate what I have.

GeorgeHowell

People who earn sums like £120,000 and have the audacity to claim that they are hard up deserve the Left's intention to tax them until their pips squeak

Linda_D_2

mayonnaise wrote: »

Very generous!

Linda_D isn't very very young, she's an aging, bitter troll. Here's a couple of her better posts.

I'm 25, not exactly old like the old troll you are