Brits are a happy lot.
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You could ask the same people the same question the following week and get a totally different result.
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Yes of course but what are you supposed to do, ask them if they are going to be happy next week or next month ? If you are doing a survey on whether people are happy you get the result by asking them.
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If the thread was titled " In general Brits are content with their life.", it would perhaps give a more rounded result. I would suspect that most Brits who have returned to the UK after living abroad would fit into that category due to the fact that they have a new appreciation of their home country.
A link from the original article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11765401
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I remember Ken Dodd singing about Happiness: 'Happiness, happiness, the greatest gift that I pocess. I thank the lord that I've been blessed with more than my share of happiness.' Funny how you remember old lyrics. Ah, those were the days when life was more of a Doddle
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Hang on, you didn't link to some story about why the UK is going to rack and ruin and why it would be crazy to go back because everyone is living in poverty
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Did you grow up in the 70s like me, perhaps? I remember those times fondly too, BECAUSE I WAS A KID! I'm not a kid now so don't have a child's sense of thrill in life, but I wouldn't say my life is worse now than then. I think you are looking back to the 'old days' with rose tinted specs!
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The English love to moan and carry on but I think deep down we are more content and happier with our lot than most.
Good book : "Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour"
Good book : "Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour"
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Yipee, it's cos we know who we are if you ask me .
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Did you grow up in the 70s like me, perhaps? I remember those times fondly too, BECAUSE I WAS A KID! I'm not a kid now so don't have a child's sense of thrill in life, but I wouldn't say my life is worse now than then. I think you are looking back to the 'old days' with rose tinted specs!
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Black and white telly, no car, bare floors because we couldn't afford carpet. Constant strikes. the 3 day week, etc. Do I look back and think I was deprived or something? Of course not. I was a kid / teenager growing up. I would go back to that in a flash. For my parents though, it must of been a horrible and stressful time.
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Same here. What I do remember was power cuts, rubbish piling up and having no pocket money for a few months. Reason for that? My dad had to go away for work and the Post Office was on strike. He had no way of sending money to my mum and the trip from London to Kirkcaldy was too expensive to do more than once a month. The 50p a week me and my brother got obviously made a difference.
Black and white telly, no car, bare floors because we couldn't afford carpet. Constant strikes. the 3 day week, etc. Do I look back and think I was deprived or something? Of course not. I was a kid / teenager growing up. I would go back to that in a flash. For my parents though, it must of been a horrible and stressful time.
Black and white telly, no car, bare floors because we couldn't afford carpet. Constant strikes. the 3 day week, etc. Do I look back and think I was deprived or something? Of course not. I was a kid / teenager growing up. I would go back to that in a flash. For my parents though, it must of been a horrible and stressful time.
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Also, Falling incomes will mean the biggest drop for middle-income families in the U.K. since the 1970s, says a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The IFS forecasts two years "dominated by a large decline" in incomes, pushing 600,000 more children into poverty, By 2013 there will be 3.1 million children in poverty in the UK, according to the IFS projections.