Standard of living

[ailbhe]

Every so often, when I am particularly pleased with my life or my house, I remember the NCT coffee morning in my front room, where everyone lamented having to go back to work, and when I said "It's one reason we bought such a small house, we wanted to be able to manage on one salary." The response? It would be lovely, but they couldn't cope with the drop in standard of living.

I've often wondered whether they'd have said it if we'd been in one of their houses, which were all slightly more than twice the size of mine, and considerably more, um, groomed, whatever the grooming equivalent for houses is.

But then I go and sit in the garden and eat bagels again. So that's ok.

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[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

Well this place is now so big, I have that. And I have to say, I love it. Most people need a Room of Requirement, and the only problem with The great Hall is it isn't really a Room of Requirement, it's a real room, and so it clutters and takes epic amount of work to keep clear.

An old fashioned parlour, is what we all want, I reckon. Somewhere clean and neat and tidy, for using at odd times. But living is too stuff filled now. The houses that had such, had little else in them! :-)

It's interesting, the connection between space, living space and poverty. That we're heading to Hong Kong levels of lived-in space cramp, as our housing is so expensive now.

When we have so much land.

Council houses, damn it! We need council houses!