This story validates what I felt when I lived in the UK several years ago during research. I felt the country had so much money (London) but everyone lived so

This story validates what I felt when I lived in the UK several years ago during research. I felt the country had so much money (London) but everyone lived so poor. I was getting paid basically the same numerical value as I had been in the US, but all the prices were in pounds. And the cars were so old, like twice as old as typical cars in the US. I wondered where all their tax money was going -- and I figured to the poor north of the country. Yet people in the UK generally behave so well, and are polite, and are educated and proud. This is really impressive -- the power of social psychology in the face of measureable economic deprivation.