Quote Originally Posted by raynaputi View Post
So do we have to starve to be in the real world? Do we have to get cold to be in the real world? Do we have to not have any house to live in to be in the real world. What we have is what we call our priorities (food, house, clothes, heating) so we put our money on that. We live in the real world. We don't spend on things we will never need. We don't drink and smoke either so no money wasted on such habits. The only holiday we had for two and a half years that I've been here in the UK is our holiday in the Philippines last November. I think if you plan things accordingly with the money you have, then you can have luxuries that you want, which what we are doing.
You've misinterpreted what bigmac meant

The luxuries you are talking about are not what we had when we were kids. .60s Britain wasn't what it is now. The likes of us have never had it so good.

Neither of my Filipino wives had seen full refrigerators before on a daily basis. .something some on here take for granted.

The Real world is the poverty stricken world. We in the United Kingdom are the lucky ones. The small minority.

Not a day passes when I don't thank my maker for such blessings