Living in rural Australia
I can say that we have the same thing going on here.

I never had the money in the first place, but the wealth(ier) kids at my school are outraged that the three international exchange trips have been brought down to just 2 a year, and that we (shock horror!) have to pay for our year 11 trip instead of having the school pay half.

There are a lot more kids bringing home made lunches to school, lots of the plastic bimbos and chav's complaining they can't afford the newest style of $350 aud jeans (big fucking deal - the most expensive pair I've ever had were $39.99).

For families like my own - where we've never had heaps of money, and where one parent is unable to work while the other is a student, things have gotten considerably harder. I'm bringing home more letters for the parents from the bank with red stamps and threats.

My job has become considerably more important then it would have been 18 months ago. I don't begrudge paying for the car registration on my mum's old car, or helping out with the shopping and the bills etc - but it shows how tight things are when I do that and still try to save money to go backpacking at the end of next year and find that so far - i'm not succeeding
(Poppet some assembly required., Sun 25 Jan 2009, 23:27, 1 reply)

chavs
they have chavs in australia?!
(fresh-meat, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 14:13, closed)