So...people like me are smug..
because we've said "it's all hysteria, it's no worse an 87, 92, or any other downturn and, actually, we're doing pretty well, especially now everything costs under £1", yet you aren't smug for boasting about your husband's wage, your docklands apartment and your huge place in cornwall with a million acres...?

By the way, unless mummy and daddy bought the apartment (sorry, it's a flat, we aren't in America) either you were a) mortgaged up to the eyeballs, or b) rolling in cash. Either way, the choice of location alone, as someone who isn't interested in style-following, does smack rather a lot of Yuppie-dom, whilst the choice of Cornwall over the more laid-back Dorset/Devon or overall nicer Scottish Highlands smacks of herd-following, too - so much for striking out as an individual and your kids will grow up retarded unless you home-school or send them to boarding school - Cornwall is a backwoods, educationally. Watch Straw Dogs and understand the *real* local culture... And I speak as someone who actually likes the place - I'd never, ever raise my kids there.
(Chad, Mon 26 Jan 2009, 16:23, 2 replies)

I like you
that is all
(Supermum, Tue 27 Jan 2009, 10:25, closed)

Aye man,
'self sufficience' (read: failing to grow crops and having a few hens that lay eggs once a week until they get slaughtered by a fox) and buying organic is what all the middle class yupsters do nowadays, so Olivia/Amelia and Archie/Alfie have a cracking start in life without those horrid E-numbers.
(McDave, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 17:14, closed)