Yes, to a head-spinning degree. She lives (and looks like) a celebrity. She is already imparting her ways on her two daughters - image is everything, fashion and style are all-important, the house must be perfect, everything must be beautiful. She would make a feminist absolutely seethe.
A girl who grew up in state accommodation with a penniless single mother on one of the poorest , nastiest, grimmest slums in the city, and all she had to do to get a multi-millionaire husband and live the high life was have every thought in her head be completely centered around absorbing what rich socialite women look like, and matching it as closely as she could.
By 'slum' I mean victorian terraces from the 1800's - rows of tiny houses built to accommodate the factory workers of the industrial revolution. Virtually all in disrepair, the factories all long gone.
As for 'not the west', well, no, not really - the majority of such homes are filled with muslim immigrants. It's rare to see anyone white on those streets.
We have some of those, obviously, for the same reason…
I just don’t tend to think of them in those terms (except Redfern, which is still somewhat of a slum).
Ours are all full of Abos, though, mostly…
And the remote communities the “full bloods” live in are objectively worse than almost anything in the entire UK or EU (which is extraordinary, when you think about it, in 2022. It’s like fucking Somalia out there)…
Anyway, apologies for presuming. Your description just made me think of, uhh, Brazil, honestly. Or like, the Subcontinent…
Most of what you describe is kind of the same, here. Except that many of those “tenements” if you will have been gentrified beyond recognition, or knocked down…
The current equivalent is public housing towers, almost exactly the same as what I saw in the UK, albeit slightly less… Combustible than Grenfell (hopefully)…
Same with the immigrants, though. Like, exactly the same.
many of those “tenements” if you will have been gentrified beyond recognition, or knocked down…
That happens here, too. Such houses can be well-maintained, modernized £500,000 properties if they're in the right location. These were not in such a location - the street was, and despite massive improvements still is, a refuse-strewn shitpit full of boarded up windows, grafitti, leaks and other damage. It got so bad at one point that the government were literally giving the properties away for free to anyone willing to repair them.
Yes, to a head-spinning degree. She lives (and looks like) a celebrity. She is already imparting her ways on her two daughters - image is everything, fashion and style are all-important, the house must be perfect, everything must be beautiful. She would make a feminist absolutely seethe.
A girl who grew up in state accommodation with a penniless single mother on one of the poorest , nastiest, grimmest slums in the city, and all she had to do to get a multi-millionaire husband and live the high life was have every thought in her head be completely centered around absorbing what rich socialite women look like, and matching it as closely as she could.
She looked the part, she got the part.
It was that simple for her.
I admire the grift then.
I would love to “embody Chad” as it were, but much though I try, I just don’t seem to be capable.
So I admire your cousin’s effort. Takes some doing.
Side note: “slum”..? Did you grow up in Asia or what?
Clearly not “the West”, by the sound of things!
England.
By 'slum' I mean victorian terraces from the 1800's - rows of tiny houses built to accommodate the factory workers of the industrial revolution. Virtually all in disrepair, the factories all long gone.
As for 'not the west', well, no, not really - the majority of such homes are filled with muslim immigrants. It's rare to see anyone white on those streets.
Oh, I see…
We have some of those, obviously, for the same reason…
I just don’t tend to think of them in those terms (except Redfern, which is still somewhat of a slum).
Ours are all full of Abos, though, mostly…
And the remote communities the “full bloods” live in are objectively worse than almost anything in the entire UK or EU (which is extraordinary, when you think about it, in 2022. It’s like fucking Somalia out there)…
Anyway, apologies for presuming. Your description just made me think of, uhh, Brazil, honestly. Or like, the Subcontinent…
Most of what you describe is kind of the same, here. Except that many of those “tenements” if you will have been gentrified beyond recognition, or knocked down…
The current equivalent is public housing towers, almost exactly the same as what I saw in the UK, albeit slightly less… Combustible than Grenfell (hopefully)…
Same with the immigrants, though. Like, exactly the same.
So again, sorry for assuming “foreign-ness”.
That happens here, too. Such houses can be well-maintained, modernized £500,000 properties if they're in the right location. These were not in such a location - the street was, and despite massive improvements still is, a refuse-strewn shitpit full of boarded up windows, grafitti, leaks and other damage. It got so bad at one point that the government were literally giving the properties away for free to anyone willing to repair them.