[Finance] What is 'rich' in 2023?

[Herr Tubthumper]

Or the effect of decades of eating shit, the majority of Brits are now overweight. McDonalds are rammed every opening hour, young folk live on horrendous and expensive bottled drinks of sugar.

As a child, burgers and fizzy drinks were treats. We never had fizzy drinks in the fridge and my parents elevated the burger to something akin to a steak, only to be had occasionally or at the Wimpy.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Same here, you must be like me a fellow northstander?

I sit at the end of the WSU, where seats are the exact same price as the NS, because I prefer the side-on / elevated view. Not because I’m landed gentry

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

As a child, burgers and fizzy drinks were treats. We never had fizzy drinks in the fridge and my parents elevated the burger to something akin to a steak, only to be had occasionally or at the Wimpy.

We used to have Corona delivered. Came on a bloody great lorry. You could hear it coming before you saw it, with the bottles rattling. Wimpy opposite St Peter’s was an occasional treat, together with a Knickerbocker Glory.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Working class but I sit in the.........1901!!!!

If you're working class and sit in 1901 surely that's just further evidence that where you sit at the Amex has nothing to do with class

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

We used to have Corona delivered. Came on a bloody great lorry. You could hear it coming before you saw it, with the bottles rattling. Wimpy opposite St Peter’s was an occasional treat, together with a Knickerbocker Glory.

Ah yes, the knickerbocker glory.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I sit at the end of the WSU, where seats are the exact same price as the NS, because I prefer the side-on / elevated view. Not because I’m landed gentry

Exactly, the fact that you actually ARE landed gentry is purely coincidental

 

[WATFORD zero]

Ah yes, the knickerbocker glory.

Ah the days of a Bender brunch followed by a nice Brown Derby

 

[Cornwallboy]

I sit at the end of the WSU, where seats are the exact same price as the NS, because I prefer the side-on / elevated view. Not because I’m landed gentry

The way you lord it up on here anyone would think you are landed gentry.

 

[Weststander]

As a child, burgers and fizzy drinks were treats. We never had fizzy drinks in the fridge and my parents elevated the burger to something akin to a steak, only to be had occasionally or at the Wimpy.

On school days from year 8 we used our 12p bus fare (from Dad's) at lunchtime to buy a pie from Wavy Line or Mace?, and sweets from Jayne's at the top of Gibbon Road.

The one opportunity to eat crap.

Wimpy East Street Brighton was a once a year thing after shopping in Brighton.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The way you lord it up on here anyone would think you are landed gentry.

Absolutely, yes. Hideously rich. No idea what to do with it all to be honest.

 

[luge]

This pretty much exactly sums up my situation. I’m fortunate to have a pretty good salary that many would class as ‘rich’ I’m sure. But I’m also heavily mortgaged and with significant expenses with two young kids living in London (which I need to do for said salary, albeit I do like London). Wife not yet returned to work after our second kid so her expenses coming out of my salary. Childcare costs in London are insane as well so even when she does return to work, most of it will go on childcare, at least until the youngest is old enough to go to school. I certainly don’t feel rich, and I do feel some resentment at boomers who bought their house for next to nothing and still look down at the following generations (whilst simultaneously pulling up the ladder through tuition fees, Brexit etc). I appreciate many boomers do understand this, but many seem not to. I suspect I’m a similar age to you and while I resent having neighbours who bought their house for 20% of the price of mine just by being born 10-15 years earlier, I have huge sympathy for those younger than me who pretty much have to give up owning one anywhere nice, unless they inherit. I’m very fortunate compared to them.

I relate to all of this. One salary (freelance) at the minute, whopper mortgage. Gets easier when our second gets the 30 hours free in September - in reality those fees will just be eaten up with the interest rate rises.

 

[Cornwallboy]

Absolutely, yes. Hideously rich. No idea what to do with it all to be honest.

Same here mate. Buy to let landlord, Daily Mail reader and Tory voter. Awaits a ban....

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

On school days from year 8 we used our 12p bus fare (from Dad's) at lunchtime to buy a pie from Wavy Line or Mace?, and sweets from Jayne's at the top of Gibbon Road.

The one opportunity to eat crap.

Wimpy East Street Brighton was a once a year thing after shopping in Brighton.

I remember those two shops, as well as the off-license, which completed the trio. Jayne's was a classic sweet shop with jars and jars or sweets on shelves behind one of the counters...a 'quarter' of crispets was a favourite of mine ...purchased with dinner money.

Happy days!

 

[Weststander]

I remember those two shops, as well as the off-license, which completed the trio. Jayne's was a classic sweet shop with jars and jars or sweets on shelves behind one of the counters...a 'quarter' of crispets was a favourite of mine ...purchased with dinner money.

Happy days!

I think I mentioned this before .... until about 1978 the regular sweets at the front (Marathons, Topics, Tutti Frutti's) were unguarded. In the lunchtime maelstrom of the invading hordes, when the couple turned around to reach for the jars, a sea of hands reached forward to pilfer. So a curved perspex screen went up.

 

[Live by the sea]

There was a similar shop in NYC on the upper east side . Row of big jars all filled with different coloured sweets and space dust that popped in your mouth. You bought it by weight .

 

[schmunk]

For anyone in Mid Sussex pining for an old-fashioned sweet shop, I can recommend Cuckfield Candy Store, from whence the AMEX sweets come (on quiet days they bag them up at the counter - also for Southampton - Boo!).

Run by Albion fan Kevin Barber (no relation to PBOBE, I understand, even though he does look somewhat like him...)

 

[CurbishleyRange]

With all the economic woe around at the moment, I keep hearing about how the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, yet I don't know anybody who is getting richer.

I'm fortunate enough to be in a fairly privileged position, I own a moderately successful company which until recently was doing very well.

If I did what I do now in the 80's / 90's, I'm pretty sure I'd have kids in private school and have a detached 5 bedroom house with a huge garden and a tennis court, yet I still live in modest 3-bed semi with kids in state school and can't really see how that is going to change any time soon. I am definitely getting poorer, not richer.

Who are these people that are getting richer? At what level is 'rich' in

With all the economic woe around at the moment, I keep hearing about how the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer, yet I don't know anybody who is getting richer.

I'm fortunate enough to be in a fairly privileged position, I own a moderately successful company which until recently was doing very well.

If I did what I do now in the 80's / 90's, I'm pretty sure I'd have kids in private school and have a detached 5 bedroom house with a huge garden and a tennis court, yet I still live in modest 3-bed semi with kids in state school and can't really see how that is going to change any time soon. I am definitely getting poorer, not richer.

Who are these people that are getting richer? At what level is 'rich' in 2023?

Wouldn't it be amazing for the country if, at some point in the future, people didn't aspire or even feel the need to send their kids to private school ?

 

[Bakero]

Wouldn't it be amazing for the country if, at some point in the future, people didn't aspire or even feel the need to send their kids to private school ?

Wouldn't it be amazing if private schools were abolished.

 

[WATFORD zero]

There was a similar shop in NYC on the upper east side . Row of big jars all filled with different coloured sweets and space dust that popped in your mouth. You bought it by weight .

Many years ago, all sweets in the UK were sold this way, from big jars by weight. You could buy 2 oz in a paper bag (about 50g). Most sweet shops were newsagents/tobacconists/sweetshops and would only have maybe 10-20 jars and that was all you could buy.

The first sweet shop I remember was Freddie Wilton's in Drove Road Portslade. I just looked it up on Google to see it must have been knocked down and replaced by a house at least 30 years ago, probably longer

 

[KZNSeagull]

For anyone in Mid Sussex pining for an old-fashioned sweet shop, I can recommend Cuckfield Candy Store, from whence the AMEX sweets come (on quiet days they bag them up at the counter - also for Southampton - Boo!).

Run by Albion fan Kevin Barber (no relation to PBOBE, I understand, even though he does look somewhat like him...)

Very nice but why call it a Candy store? Is it all American sweets?