Verum wrote:LordRaven wrote:I concur,we dont know how well off we are in this country compared to the conditions some live in as far afield as South America,Africa and South East Asia.Korea was fine as far as I could see,as was Singapore but the rest of the places,even Hong Kong,abject poverty right next door to opulence. Wierd.
And now, unlike when I was a kid, you don't need to leave England to find opulence and poverty co-existing. I was born in Stepney before the bombed out slums had been cleared and later lived on a council estate in Slough. I thought things could never be worse for the poor of this country. I was wrong.
Britwell estate
I lived in Windsor and Slough was the just otherside of M4 but the difference was dramatic