Tibetan Monks have none of these problems..!
I don't know you SA but very generally speaking, you seem to be suffering from being British.
Tax up - red tape up - living costs up - knife and gun crime up - overcrowding - motoring charges up - insurance up - declining levels of customer service and all of this rammed down ones throats by outfits such as the Daily Mail and Sky News forever looping rubbish to fill up air time.
The UK is wholly depressed right now and you are not the only one feeling crap. Just seeing and reading about it all the time versus Rooneys £250k per week, how much Philip Green made last month, Simon Cowell's stupid X-Factor tax bill alone being £150m, how another hedge-funder made £400m yesterday and how a Big Brother slapper just signed a £800,000 kiss and tell story with Max Clifford and the News of the World, all helps to create a country low on morale and self-worth.
I stopped reading the press and rarley watch TV except for films and the like.
Getting out of the UK has been great too (although it's not an option or even a desire for everyone
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