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People ''Prentending'' the recession has affected them

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  • #52
    RATM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,591 ✭✭✭RATM


    It does go on though. I've a sister and brother in law who have a combined annual salary over €400k. During the boom they loved to tell you how much they spent on XYZ. Now during the bust they love to tell you how they shop in Aldi as it offers value for money.

    Both of them are quite sensible, intelligent people. But somehow i feel the constant narrative in the media of "things are bad" makes them themselves think that things are bad, when they really ain't, at least not if you're pulling in €400k a year, EVERY year.

    But to listen to them you'd swear the recession has really effected them. I suppose when they look at their payslips and see they're being taxed 55%-60% they can't but help that it is hitting them. But at the end of the day if you used to get a €250k after tax income and that is now reduced to €170k are things really that bad ? I guess it annoying as you're doing the same work for less but with these things its just better to get on with it and see the positive side, i.e. that you have a roof over your head and still have a stack of disposable income to take 4 foreign holidays a year. Perhaps that €4m house up in the hills of Howth is no longer in your grasp but heh, you're still living very comfortably, at least compared to many of the people who haven't been abroad since 2007.

    As an aside I hate the people who throw around this begrudgery tag like has been thrown on the OP here. I don't begrudge my sister and BIL anything, they're among the best in the country at what they do and they get paid only as much as an employer is willing to pay them. But if they go complaining about how hard they have it in this recession then I'm going to call a spade a spade and tell them they haven't got it hard at all, they merely have it less easy. That's not begrudgery, it's realism. And they should thank me for it.


  • #53
    janetc
    Site Banned Posts: 12 ✭janetc


    Goat the dote wrote: »
    Admit it OP:
    You checked the bins before you put them out

    Probably M+S fancy stuff, But I see the Op point


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