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Brendan Wrote:

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> When are those figures from? The 1970s?


I am browsing and the figures really do seem to be something from the 70s. This graph must be miles out, and yet claims 05/6. They dont even measure people with a household income of ?52k. I mean 21yr old graduates in the City make 45k these days...

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44188000/gif/_44188235_uk_income_dist2_gr416.gif

North and Mid Devon and Cornwall respectively account for the bottom three poorest rural council areas in England and Wales. Yet as Cassius quite rightly points out, these apparantly poor people live longer than anyone else statistically across the whole country. Why? Because not all working class people eat battered sausages every night of the week, some of them enjoy home cooked meals with some of the freshest and yet cheapest ingredients from their source in these rural areas. Urbanite middle class people honestly believe that they are better off because of their money and status, but this is in general a long way from the truth.


Louisa

clive3300 Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

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> > When are those figures from? The 1970s?

>

> I am browsing and the figures really do seem to be

> something from the 70s. This graph must be miles

> out, and yet claims 05/6. They dont even measure

> people with a household income of ?52k. I mean

> 21yr old graduates in the City make 45k these

> days...

> http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44188000/gif

> /_44188235_uk_income_dist2_gr416.gif


Given that quotes "weekly household income" I'm guessing it's net of tax and NI... 52,000 net probably equates to about 70k gross.

  • 8 months later...
frightfully bourgeois, ditzy, chaotic, and a little stressful but the food quality tends to be better here than anywhere else. The Kurdish Cafe on Bellenden road would be the best place around in terms of price and service but unfortunately they don't serve proper coffee and their sausages are pink sawdust.

Blue mountain OK



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Oh went to cafe next to Palmerston.......now that was...............


.............................................................................very.......unpleasant......yes sir indeedeeee


mmmmm mmmmmm ...capitol yukky ewwwww........



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Woof

Went to the Blue Mountain Cafe for lunch yesterday and found myself wondering whether the staff had read this thread. They couldn't have been more friendly and attentive. It was rammed, so clearly a popular choice. And only a few prams. Yum food, not too expensive. I am loving seeing how the other half live now not at work.

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