How much do you earn compared to everyone else?

AG,

Ignorance is bliss, so its no wonder stupid people are "happier" than higher quality people.

My word, a lot of you need to get some (real) friends and get out more. A lot of you are boasting about earning so much money and being of a higher moral standing than the 'uneducated masses', a lot of whom are seemingly much more happy!

The comments are hilarious. Anyway, my two-pence worth:

As first-generation child of immigrants (from the colonies who were invited to come and work in the UK because the natives wouldn't!) I have no real home country outside the UK - the country of my parents is a foreign place. I bought into the UK, I studied hard and managed to do well at a private school through the Conservative Party's assisted places scheme (which Labour abolished!), eventually making it to Oxford and a few years later banking. I am appalled at the recent budget by Messrs. Brown and Darling. They are disincentivising people like me. Add to that the fact that the generally uneducated masses, in times of hardship, will look at me as a foreigner and make me feel unwelcome in the only place I know - is it any wonder that people like me will want to leave? Hence I end up subscribing to Henry's view also. And that is a shame.

Niv- careful, as the "Columbian" clearly isn't a "Colombian", but a maker-of-mischief.

Henry - when you go please don't forget not to come back.