I fel almost gulity for contributing to this mis-named thread, knowing , as i do that millions of Brits are starving and/or cold and/or living on the streets because they're just to poor to buy all the essentials. And I don't suppose it's any different in the USA, or anywhere else in the developed world.
Being poor in a rich country is no better than being poor in a poor country, methinks. It just means that you could manage very nicely if you could only take your insufficient income somewhere else and live on it there, instead. Yet somehow, you still participate in that collective guilt for being one of the overpriveged. If you're botn in Britain then you're alright, Jack. Others will literally kill themselves trying to get here.
Oh, and we;'re more likely to possess some second-hand electronic junk than people in some countries do. and a power supply to run it on, if wecan only can afford to keep the meter fed.
I'm not grumbling for myself here. I'm OK, at present. Far from wealth, but not doing without anything that matters. just saying, it's not really a question of where you live, but how close you are to the bottom of the heap in whatever place you're living in.
