Potemkin wrote:In my (admittedly somewhat limited) experience, rich people are a bunch of sneering, chinless dickheads. One of their female ancestors bonked Charles II back in 1678, so they inherited a title and an investment portfolio. Lol.
'Rich' people are now measured as anyone worth more than 1 million according to Henley Global.
With 2 beds in Cambridge now worth around 600k, almost every home-owner in town
is a high-net-worth-individual.
All my mates are Portuguese, Italians, Spanish and Serbs, dentists, doctors & academics and almost all of them have moved back to their countries since Brexit. These are all simple people, with no arrogance or entitlement but quite the opposite actually(very down-to-earth) living pretty normal lives but would all possibly be considered "rich" according to the definition used in that index.
Brits on the other hand are a different matter altogether, entitlement and arrogance are a thing even for the not-so-well-off.
My job brings me into contact with people all day long either as customers, staff or suppliers, and my experiences with the Brits is becoming more and more overwhelmingly negative as they complain and create mountains out of molehills, constantly lying and overplaying their hand while trying to abuse any situation to become victims and thus entitled to free stuff. Poor Greeks are a bit over the top with that as well trying to build a case to get freebies, but no comparison with the Brits.
Brits are also the only people who are lazy enough to refuse trade and actually block it even if they get commission out of it!!!
It's surreal. I sacked 3 Brits, 2 males and a female, between 30-40 years old for doing exactly that, this past week alone. Caught red-handed refusing trade in separate locations and independent to each other!! Fuck me, dude.
Like honestly. Even though aside from their salaries, they also get 10% out of every sale they had unashamedly refused.
It's quite unreal actually the difference of entitlement, you only see this kind of entitlement among southern europeans only if they are some uber rich posh idiots or some poor sods trying to get away with freebies, while among Brits you see it across the board consistently and repeatedly.
In all fairness though, you do not see that the northern you move along the country where more salt of the earth people are found.
Whenever I go to Birmingham even, I find a breath of fresh of air.
In all honesty, I am growing extremely exacerbated here. And I don't know where to move to. I am starting to dislike this country with the same passion I was hating Greece back in the noughties when I left it with no regrets as a provincial backwater that I wanted nothing to do with. I have also left my brothers in you know where for the same. I just can't stand some people anymore.
All these mates of mine that have gone, are serious losses for this country, both economically but mainly culturally, regardless if you want to register them as "rich" or not.
EN EL ED EM ON
...take your common sense with you, and leave your prejudices behind...