Blue mountain cafe - walked out (Lounged)

[Cassius]

Mmmm - you're not going to get a detached house in ED for a ?25,500 income!

[clive3300]

I quite agree. But I have seen numbers like this often quoted. I wonder on what they are based?

25k is really house-share territory

[KalamityKel]

Bugger I'm a huge percentage under the "average working class" income :-| I must be an outcast! :(

[Cassius]

But Kel - you work in the arts - outside the remit of 'class'.

[clive3300]

Been there, was that :(

[Brendan]

When are those figures from? The 1970s?

[clive3300]

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

[SeanMacGabhann]

to back Louisa up slightly you would be amazed at how little most people get paid if you take the country as a whole

My friends and family in Devon get dreadful money - often single figures

[david_carnell]

There are people in Devon on less than ?10 a year. Good grief, does Bob Geldof know?

[jumpinjackflash]

Clive 3300 you are right - even the young trainee brokers on my floor are nearing the 100k mark!

[Cassius]

Sean - and they have longer to live on less money!

[Louisa]

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

[Fuschia]

clive3300 Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > 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.

[KalamityKel]

Louisa they/we also know how to enjoy life too :))

[Cassius]

But Louisa

The people statistically most likely to die young in the same survey were the working classes from the North East where they do eat battered sausages (and smoke more tabs) and that's not even mentioning Scotland........

[clive3300]

And if I was going to die 10 years younger, Id prefer it was from excessive fun, travel and a great lifestyle, then too many battered sausages. But hey, thats just me.

[isarens]

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.

[giggirl]

I love Blue Mountain and I'm a monty minor fan

[woofmarkthedog]

Blue mountain OK

End of message............

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

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

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

End of message......(really this time..)

Woof

[PeckhamRose]

Thinking of starting a new thread.

"Where are the best battered sausages in East Dulwich?"

[FelicityNormal]

Fuschia Wrote:

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> arrived, too late. my son was in tears.

>

Why was your son crying? had you just smacked him one?

[FelicityNormal]

Cassius Wrote:

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> My family and friends would be considered

> terribly middle class (books everywhere, maybe

> even a piano or two)

You what?

[Polly D]

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.