I'll take you at face value, but I do wonder whether I should just wave to ak
You really have a problem with me, don't you? Posh, rich, racist and using unacceptable slang. Why don't you just put me on ignore and save yourself some heartache?
My boss's income is published in the partnership report. Last year it was just over 3million. He doesn't live in Brixton. We were talking about 'the rich' not brixton incomes.
One of the other partners does live in Brixton- he earned just over 1.5million in the last financial year. He bought his house 20 years ago. One of the others lives in Camberwell. Also on 1.5, been there a while but not sure he long, I've never asked.
give over. if you don't want your posts commented on then the solution is very, very simple: read more and post less. Whining because someone questions what you've written is as ludicrous as whimpering because you're identified as rich.
Let's remind ourselves, you're a willing participant in a gentrification thread in the Brixton forum of Urban75 called "Professionals send Brixton property prices surging by 15%". Actually more than that, you're all over it, there is demographic change and you're by far its most visible face.
You've chosen that role, just as you choose to insist, over and over, that we get just how well connected you are, how important you are, how successful, how stellar. You're a winner in life, and you've made sure we know it. The clear implication doesn't need to be vocalised.
I offered you some good advice earlier, which was that maybe you should recalibrate what you think of as rich to closer to local norms. You didn't have the gumption to take it.
If you'd actually bothered to read what other people have written you might have noticed that this subject is close to a lot of hearts, that even within this narrow, self selecting group there are plenty of personal testimonies of lives that have had to change course because people with real ties simply cannot afford to live here. People have been
directly pushed out because others with no ties to the area but greater privilege, more wealth, more power have muscled their way in. If that sounds brutal it's because it is. You have made other people cry.
If you had any sensitivity at all you might have given that some thought before you started bragging about knocking two homes into one or about your mates who 'drop' a quarter of a million pounds on bling. btw I still don't know what drop means- does it mean spend or gamble or what? Like most, I do have some understanding of how slang is used to delineate those who are part of the charmed circle and those who aren't- the guys hanging around by the shops know too, but it's very unlikely you'll get what they're saying about you.
Yes, bragging. Rubbing peoples noses in it.
No idea what the numbers, locations or length of occupation is for other partners from other firms, either. Or for people in other professions. Or trust fund holders. Or people who sold out businesses and made money, or all sorts of people who may be around here.
is that what you think Brixton is like
The financial situation of people I've met, worked with or actually know isn't, I would have thought, particularly relevant to anything.
ah but it is, as I posted up there
#909 "Pretty much all of us know people financially both wealthier and less well off than ourselves, their experiences allow us to calibrate our own expectations of what 'rich' and 'poor' mean." It matters that you know people who earn three million pounds a year and that most of the rest of us have never knowingly met anyone like that, nor are ever likely to. Nor have our neighbours. Do you have even the slightest idea of how far beyond the wildest of wild dreams that is?
Maybe you harbour ambitions to be them in a few years, maybe you always were them.
People being paid three, or one and a half million pounds a year have helped calibrate what you think of as normal, your norms, far far more than the 50% of local children who qualify for free school meals. You've forgotten them already, haven't you?
Why are you in Brixton?
