To get annoyed that a middle class life style is not "real life"?

[Roseflower]

I don't get- why is trying to move to a nice, safe and quiet area with a good school not "real life" as some people like to tell me?

How is this any less "real" that living in a crime ridden, ugly area with an unsafe school?

Seems its only real life if your let your child actually live in the middle of all sorts...

Does anyone else get this attitude sometimes?

Ah, but do dogs do riding?

and, more to the point, do they do the fandango?

Mine has been having piano lessons

Although his more MC friend plays violin

hehehe

You do realise don't you, lequeen, that those "militant inverted snobbists" who think as you describe are just people that you've made up in your head?

Ken Dodd's Dad's dog's dead.

Why thankyou LeQueen, goose down sounds divine

that too

But, teameric, you have to leave room for LeQueen's imaginary friends, the militant inverted snobbists.

On the other hand, if you don't live in 'real life' does it matter if you make people up in your head. Surely we can all bend the rules as we choose because we live outside the rules of reality. Hurrah!

I think a notion of real life or not real life is ridiculous. Most people are just good decent people living as best they can in the circumstances they're in.

My cousins grew up in a very small town and one of my friends very snottily asked them "but you know there's like, a real world out there, right?!" How rude! I live in a very small town now (church functions, villiage green and all :)), and friends I have who live in larger cities tell me all the time how they "just couldn't do it, it's just so small and quiet." Well then bloody don't do it, but don't act like it's any less of a valid existence than yours.

Um...well, I hate to contribute to anyone's exploding head, especially as I haven't read the whole thread, but I don't think that inverted snobs are fictional.

I don't think that inverted snobs are fictional either, but being middle-class and not living in the 'hood, it seems I am myself fictional thus I don't think my opinion has any weight. hence the head exploding.

Inverted snobs are real enough. But I'm pretty sure they aren't worrying about what LeQueen's dd's Asian friend's parent does for a living as she suggested earlier.

Right, but using it as an example I know what she meant. That's all I'm saying. Like my friend's husband who is black, and also happens to be quite middle class and clever. I've actually heard people say of him, "Well he's not black black if you know what I mean..." Um, no actually I don't.

Yeah. That's not actually inverted snobbery though is it? It's racism.