Bennie, dearest, “Col it's all about 'quality of life'. If you have any faith in qualitative studies you'd be aware the richer we get and the more mod cons we purchase the unhappier we are as a whole. “

Of course it is all about “Quality of Life”. The most important quality of life is to be free to decide for oneself and not be hamstrung or hog-tied by social engineers and bureacrats.

So, now I will ask the question directly.

I know of a website on which there are the results of “life satisfaction surveys”. I doubt you have ever been there so I suggest visit

www.nationmaster.com

Check out who is more “satisfied” in the world, those in the developed nations or those in the underdeveloped nations. Your claim to “more material wealth = less satisfied” is identified as being a load of cow crap instantly.

After you have studied what you find, I sincerely suggest you return with a quantitative statement to rank and order your qualitative expectations.

In other words, stop bringing moronic gut notions of socialist pandering to this debate and use hard, real and accreditable data instead.

As an accountant, I have spent 30 years developing measuring systems. Anything can be ranked, arrayed, measured and rated. So, with that in mind I challenge you to produce some “quantitive” data to support your “qualitative” aspirations (which can be done), otherwise all you are spouting are the simplistic motherhood statements of the bewildered and beguiled.

Digiwigi another “qualitative decision” could be for you to move house - which is what I am doing, bring on the Sea Change.