To ask if you believe you’ve lived a luckier life than most?

Yes-not solely down to money - we didn’t have a lot growing up, but we’re ‘comfortable’ (DF engineer). I definitely lucked out with having
a) parents who loved me
b) parents who put family first
c) parents who genuinely loved one another/rarely if ever, argued
d) I wasn’t born in a war torn country. For that I’m grateful every single day
e) Health wise I’ve been lucky - many of my friends have not reached mid 50’s
f) my DC are happy and healthy
g) lucked out ultimately, after my exH cheated, and turned into an utter cunt when my DC were aged just 2 & 1. His company had just taken off and we had invested in property. Post divorce I invested wisely and am now retiring mid 50’s. Karma.

you seem quite chippy in your posts. I didn’t say I was born into a rich family..I was born into a supportive family environment and never experienced poverty.
lucky is exactly the word- I was very lucky in the uterus lottery. Where I was born and into which family is chance and is not influenced by my own actions. This is the very definition of luck.

It's not the same poverty as in some other countries. You're massively privileged if you can't see that.

Many many people live in utter poverty in the UK.

Sorry, are the rich people on this thread blind to this or something?

Absolutely luckier than others but equally have experienced loss early than others

That's quite lucky in my book. Luckier than being born into a family that is disadvantaged by inequality.

You getting offended over people saying they're lucky is weird.

I feel very very lucky. We have a house, 3 healthy now adult children and I've reached the age of 54 and have my health (I think!,). We don't have much in savings but work hard and have what we need. My mum died at 40 and my mum and dad lost a baby at a young age so yeah I definitely feel very lucky

I’ve had very bad luck and very good luck. Bad with my ex dh and a disability for me that came out of nowhere, but extremely good luck in meeting my dh and still having my parents in their 80’s and 90’s.

Yes, very much so. Because I had the enormous good fortune to be born in a wealthy, democratic, peaceful first world country with all of the public services, laws & protections which go with it. Billions of people who live in absolute poverty in the developing world are much less fortunate than me. Tens of millions of normal European people just like me are currently living in the daily hell of a war zone in Ukraine. Of course I’m luckier than most.

Yes, I’ve had people say I always land on my feet. And I usually do. But I also work at a positive outlook, invest emotionally and socially in relationships and generally am kind.

Being born into a wealthy family isnt luck.

Its being born into a family that benefits from inequality.

Rich people in the UK could make life better for poor people. They could insist that everyone has a basic standard of living.

They don't. They keep the money for themselves.

It's not nasty just because you don't like it. Luck isn't fair, that's literally the definition.

"Nobody in the UK is even close to poverty."

Its strange how so many people are using food banks in the UK then.

If you cant afford to eat, that is true poverty

It's all relative. You can either compare yourself to someone living in a war zone or to someone who seems to have it all (house, job, family etc). I think there a mix of luck and hard work in everything. My husband is in a really good job for example, he worked hard to get there but he was also born with intelligence and grew up in a stable home.

Brainy - lucky
Went to Cambridge - hard work
Bought a house in 2000 - lucky/timing
Left London 2007 - hard work/knowledge
Had a child at 42 - lucky
Very successfully self employed - hard work
Good partner - self confidence and thought outside the box.

I think I’m incredibly lucky to have been born in the 20th century in a relatively rich country at a time when medical advances have meant that most of us will make it old age. I’m lucky to have had parents who loved me and to have been intelligent enough to go to University. I was very lucky to have a free education and to have children easily. I haven’t inherited property or a huge amount of money, and I was a widow at 45, but in the grand scheme of things, I’d say I’m fortunate.

I just feel that "lucky" feels like a nasty word in those circumstances.

Instead of saying "i was lucky to be born into a rich family".

People should be saying "i benefit from an incredibly unfair system that keeps rich families rich, and keeps poor families poor".

People born into rich families shouldnt be saying "im so lucky". They should be helping to fix the inequalities in the system

Whichever country you were born in, cruel parents and years of sickness ain’t fun.

Lucky beyond belief. Theres been some stuff along the way (my dad went bankrupt in my teens and if he wasn’t so well spoken would probably have died in jail; my late Dh took his own life) but honestly I’m otherwise the luckiest bastard you can imagine - genetics, upbringing, politics, the lot). I even win Tombola prizes as a rule (though not money prizes - tbh that’s also lucky as I could easily have been a gambling addict if I ever won anything.)

By global standards, nobody in the UK is even close to poverty.

Try this:

https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i

Yes, very lucky and also fearful, as other poster said, of it running out. I’ve also had some bad stuff happen, but doesn’t this happen to most people.

luck: nice parents, decent upbringing, had brains, got out of small town, got a good job where I have worked my way up and been very successful, met DH who has also been very successful, mostly ok on health, three happy kids, still have my parents.

not so good: awful bullying as a child, self harm, suicide attempts, sexual assault and rape, I’ve been cheated on.

But, I absolutely think of myself as very lucky indeed.

It's very sad but I feel incredibly lucky to never had been sexually abused as a child or raped as an adult. I know so many women who have.

I was taking about my experience and how lucky I am.

Plenty of people experience poverty in the U.K.

Of course I’m luckier than most people in the world- born in a developed country, had a free education, free health care, no health issues, supportive family and never experienced war, famine or poverty.