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When I came here from the UK to sunny Florida from cold Britain I was naturally frugal. I have splashed out and been very conservative both in my 58 Brit years. I had the latest equipment to watch TV but had a cooker from the second hand store after my divorce. I have HAD to be frugal for the seven years I have been here due to an atrocious bureaucracy. I might one day get the right to work? In Gulf Breeze FL on the water people threw out things for no good reason. A loose screw fell in the fan workings. After a storm a great TV was put out. It had popped. Still watch it after a $30 investment. I moved to Jacksonville. Less wastefulness but still on craigslist stuff given away. Boats, Cars, motorbikes, singlewides, animals. I live happily near the ocean without a flat screen TV but with a great flat PC monitor that went for a song. We have no cable but hundreds of videos for entertainment that people dispose of by the box. I enjoy the weather and the water and all the rest but some think that it is all unobtainable and that Florida is expensive. Greed may have been good for a while but it imploded. Now you have to fix the lack of care factor. Ill health and mental health which is all too often fixed with a bullet. From the bottom up is THE right way. I know no one in the UK worried about health care.
