mackem 30,327 Posted Friday at 12:39 Report Share Posted Friday at 12:39 Following on from the Jaywick deprivation thread,stick your postcode in...... How deprived is your area? Look up your postcode as new data for England released WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM New data ranks every area of England against a set of metrics for deprivation. Find out where yours... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 51,347 Posted Friday at 12:49 Report Share Posted Friday at 12:49 England has a massive culture of fur coat and no knickers…..it’s the African mindset of shiny things to portray yourself as something or the other. So everyone has an Evoque or an Audi, nice new kitchen, £500,000 house and not a penny to scratch their arse with. Over here you could see some old farmer in rags, driving a 20 year old Skoda held together with bailing twine and he has 10 houses and a million euro in the bank ! Same for ordinary blokes, one bloke may drive a lorry but he has land and property and £200,000 of savings ! It’s hard to tell in reality unless it’s at either end of the scale in the U.K., then it’s maybe obvious….but middle class areas ?, you just wouldn’t know. 6 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,327 Posted Friday at 12:51 Author Report Share Posted Friday at 12:51 1 minute ago, WILF said: Over here you could see some old farmer in rags, driving a 20 year old Skoda held together with bailing twine and he has 10 houses and a million euro in the bank ! Same for ordinary blokes, one bloke may drive a lorry but he has land and property and £200,000 of savings ! I know the same sort of people. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mel b 4,184 Posted Friday at 12:59 Report Share Posted Friday at 12:59 18 minutes ago, mackem said: Following on from the Jaywick deprivation thread,stick your postcode in...... How deprived is your area? Look up your postcode as new data for England released WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM New data ranks every area of England against a set of metrics for deprivation. Find out where yours... I can't afford to get past the pay wall, so I'm a peasant . 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
chartpolski 28,616 Posted Friday at 13:01 Report Share Posted Friday at 13:01 (edited) 22 minutes ago, mackem said: Following on from the Jaywick deprivation thread,stick your postcode in...... How deprived is your area? Look up your postcode as new data for England released WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM New data ranks every area of England against a set of metrics for deprivation. Find out where yours... I put my post code in and find I live in a very nice area, if the data is to be believed; scores very well on income, education and lack of crime. BUT, I wonder how accurate the data is ? No one round here is going to be mugged for their Rolex, whereas places like Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Other high wealth areas of London are very high on the crime list, but I wouldn’t class those areas as “ deprived”. As Mark Twain said; “ there are lies, damned lies and statistics “ ! Cheers. Edited Friday at 13:02 by chartpolski 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mackem 30,327 Posted Friday at 13:03 Author Report Share Posted Friday at 13:03 Just now, chartpolski said: I put my post code in and find I live in a very nice area, if the data is to be believed; scores very well on income, education and lack of crime. BUT, I wonder how accurate the data is ? No one round here is going to be mugged for their Rolex, whereas places like Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Other high wealth areas of London are very high on the crime list, but but I wouldn’t class those areas as “ deprived”. As Mark Twain said; “ there are lies, damned lies and statistics “ ! Cheers. Chelsea and Knightsbridge are high on crime because its where the cash is,crims from less affluent areas earn there,my old Sunderland postcode no longer exists. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,957 Posted Friday at 14:20 Report Share Posted Friday at 14:20 Deprivation is measured using several criteria. https://blog.ukdataservice.ac.uk/deprived-or-live-in-poverty-1/ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh_red 5,082 Posted Friday at 16:53 Report Share Posted Friday at 16:53 2 hours ago, WILF said: England has a massive culture of fur coat and no knickers…..it’s the African mindset of shiny things to portray yourself as something or the other. So everyone has an Evoque or an Audi, nice new kitchen, £500,000 house and not a penny to scratch their arse with. Over here you could see some old farmer in rags, driving a 20 year old Skoda held together with bailing twine and he has 10 houses and a million euro in the bank ! Same for ordinary blokes, one bloke may drive a lorry but he has land and property and £200,000 of savings ! It’s hard to tell in reality unless it’s at either end of the scale in the U.K., then it’s maybe obvious….but middle class areas ?, you just wouldn’t know. Guy round here dresses in shabby old clothes , drives a old knackered lorry and loves trains . If u see him in shop youd think he was skint but he owns half of the local area and a massive fabrication company and the little lorry he drives around with is the delivery lorry for his business . Business sort of runs instead now with managers etc so he just dods deliveries. If theirs a long distance delivery he will go off in the lorry , drop it off , have a wander round that area , bite to eat , check outbthe train station and come home 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BobDown 1,246 Posted Friday at 17:05 Report Share Posted Friday at 17:05 3722 out of 33755 ..Could be worse lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mC HULL 16,541 Posted Friday at 17:12 Report Share Posted Friday at 17:12 4 hours ago, WILF said: England has a massive culture of fur coat and no knickers…..it’s the African mindset of shiny things to portray yourself as something or the other. So everyone has an Evoque or an Audi, nice new kitchen, £500,000 house and not a penny to scratch their arse with. Over here you could see some old farmer in rags, driving a 20 year old Skoda held together with bailing twine and he has 10 houses and a million euro in the bank ! Same for ordinary blokes, one bloke may drive a lorry but he has land and property and £200,000 of savings ! It’s hard to tell in reality unless it’s at either end of the scale in the U.K., then it’s maybe obvious….but middle class areas ?, you just wouldn’t know. Just happened with an old realtion round corner he was in a council.house worked as a parky all his life after the army and rode a bike great bloke had just shy a million in the bank most likely go.to.rspca or some other charity lol 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
eastcoast 4,671 Posted Friday at 18:01 Report Share Posted Friday at 18:01 (edited) I was at the estate where I grew up yesterday. There's still a good vets there with some great young lasses who love dogs and more importantly aren't afraid of them. Something which is important when dealing with a tired curmudgeonly old terrier and is becoming increasingly difficult to find these day. Loved this remembrance display! An estate then and now that would no doubt fall into the deprived category. When I lived there everyone was skint but many good families and lack of money did not mean poor quality of life or upbringing. Probably still deprived but still predominantly British. Edited to say: I had my 1st pint in this club, McEwans Scotch 52p. 1st time I went hunting in Scotland I asked for a pint of Scotch in a bar in Hawick. Wearing a cheap fake Barbour and 2nd hand pit boots from an uncle. The barman stared at me and said "are sure you can afford it son?" Edited Friday at 19:02 by eastcoast spelling & content 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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low plains drifter 11,327 Posted Saturday at 07:22 Report Share Posted Saturday at 07:22 13 hours ago, eastcoast said: I was at the estate where I grew up yesterday. There's still a good vets there with some great young lasses who love dogs and more importantly aren't afraid of them. Something which is important when dealing with a tired curmudgeonly old terrier and is becoming increasingly difficult to find these day. Loved this remembrance display! An estate then and now that would no doubt fall into the deprived category. When I lived there everyone was skint but many good families and lack of money did not mean poor quality of life or upbringing. Probably still deprived but still predominantly British. Edited to say: I had my 1st pint in this club, McEwans Scotch 52p. 1st time I went hunting in Scotland I asked for a pint of Scotch in a bar in Hawick. Wearing a cheap fake Barbour and 2nd hand pit boots from an uncle. The barman stared at me and said "are sure you can afford it son?" This reminds me of an old boy I used to know who used to travel about to race his dogs Think he was in Cowdenbeath, he asked for a pint of scotch, to which came the reply "I'm not serving an English man a pint of whisky" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TOMO 29,446 Posted Saturday at 08:10 Report Share Posted Saturday at 08:10 Very fortunate to live where we do....south east of Nottingham between Radcliffe on trent and Bingham in a tiny hamlet ....the local council is Rushcliffe...which is very sort after.... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,957 Posted Saturday at 08:59 Report Share Posted Saturday at 08:59 (edited) I haven't looked at my old area of Salford. I know it will be right up there.It makes me blazing angry that so many decent people have to live in such devastating conditions. This is " our" track we would play back in the day. https://youtu.be/Q3mgapAcVdU?si=-dMi2txR52D1VVTd Edited Saturday at 09:00 by jukel123 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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