that makes sense. We Brits are obsessed with "keeping up with the Joneses."
It also makes sense of a phenomenon exemplified around Stoke-on-Trent. It's a weird place, made up of many small towns. Every time there is money spent on one town, there is an outcry that it isn't being spent on another. "Hanley always gets the funding," is a common refrain, as is, "you'd never see that in Burslem." And it doesn't seem to matter if Tunstall got the investment last year, there's still resentment that Bentilee is getting it this year. And all the rest of Staffordshire is richer, nicer, and clearly has more money spent on it.
No wonder we earn ourselves a pretty ugly reputation.
Jen
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2026-05-31 09:49:39 UTC
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