Dunno, would you run the country on a shelf stackers salary?
I dunno, but great things are done when men and mountains meet.
Dunno, would you run the country on a shelf stackers salary?
It's about £18 a week if you take a global average.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17543356
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I have never known anyone who lived much like the person in the original reference. However, I have know a few people who did live very basic and frugal lives and were apparently very good at living within their means. I suppose it is possible under certain circumstances, next to impossible under others.
These people all lived out in the country. No doubt things are different in the U.K. but in some places, if you can manage to keep your property taxes paid and if no corporation covets your land (in which case, God help you), you will be pretty much left alone. No one will come around to make sure the wiring in your house is up to code or to see that you have shoveled the sidewalk after the last snow. Some counties have very small populations and the local government just doesn't have the ability to do much checking up on people, even if they wanted to. This is all a good thing because there are a lot of people barely making it in this country. Oh, they will have electricity and no doubt a telephone but chance are, not a cell phone (don't even have one myself) or internet access. That really eats into your disposable income anyway. They will keep a garden and heat with wood or coal (usually coal where I'm from) and maybe even cook with wood (that's getting to be unusual). Basically they just don't consume the way others do.
There are numbers of supposedly homeless people living in this country. .