196LikesCars are a problem. but a bigger problem than the 80s - Car Tax, Carbon Tax, NCT.Originally Posted by ellie08
We can't borrow at the moment, reminds me of the 80s there.
Cars are a problem. but a bigger problem than the 80s - Car Tax, Carbon Tax, NCT.
We can't borrow at the moment, reminds me of the 80s there.
Worse than the 80s , People are carry huge debts, FG & LP Government doing nothing to assist Citizens, Banks are running riot over the Citizens of this Country
The major difference is that in the 80's people did not have a high level of debt - they didnt have any money but they didnt owe huge amounts either. Now people owe so much money that the money they have coming in from welfare or work is simply paying off debts and leaving them without anything for the necessities in life. If I didn't have debt I could live on what I earn and so could others. I emigrated in the 80's to Britain like everyone else, no different from today except at least now you have the internet and skype to keep in touch back then it was telephone call boxes costing a fortune, flights home from the UK were several hundred pounds. Back then if you got a house you furnished it second hand and with help from friends, if you had a baby it was hand me overs, now people feel hard done by if they cannot get new things. A change in attitude is required about making do with what we have and not feeling hard done by if we cant have new.
With you there, hand-me-downs 'n' all. I lived in London in 1987 & a return flight was STG£67.00 (Aer Fungus)
Thanks, Des for videos.
Wish I had German. I love the poetry of Rilke...but can only read in translation....
Oh God, the price of flights. It got better in the late 80s after Ryanair, but before that, flying was for the elite...
I never flew anywhere....Took that boat to Hollyhead so often....Ferry to France..Trains across Europe......Had to return home from Paris once for a family emergency, so had to fly Aer Lingus.....the price was way, way beyond my purse, and I had to borrow the fare and pay it back over a year...
I remember standing in the Aer Lingus office on the Champs Elysees and wondering how I was going to pay for this...
Back in the 1980s I had no respect for the crooks in government and their deaths wouldn't have caused me a moment's bother. And now, I still don't. But on the upside, there is a lot less. Sometimes I wonder if I am being too sarcastic.
Regards...jmcc
People of the 40'S TO 80's wore out what they had ,mended it or fixed , now everything is disposable.Keeping up with the Jones was left to the Jones to battle it out among themselves in40's to 80s , now everyone is at it .Materialism and consumption has taken over in everyway .Look at the state of young wans they are fatties , people with one child living in 6 bedroom houses , monster cars for what .
Good post and of course you are right. However everything is relative. The generation born in the 1930s who emigrated in the 50s would have considered you spoiled. Think about it.
Sorry Gatsby but with all due respect I am failing to see the hardship here. This continues today for some, perhaps many. My Dad worked on the sites in London in the 1950s to the 1970s. He remembers Irish men being told that their mother/father had died that morning, the day before etc. The men, unable to afford any flight of any description or to even borrow the money, just carried on working. He remembers other men being told that their mother had died and been buried the previous week.
