I think most of us have found our place in the sun, it being in London, Birmingham, Lyon, Melbourne, Antwerp, or Alice Springs, its we as an individual we seek to find where we are happy most,.
the 50's-60's have now gone but left a lot of happy/sad memories, which we will have in our hearts till we die,.
and gone too, are the slums of where a lot of us lived ( dragged up) we could only see what others had in their fine houses and nice cars, a world we thought we could never be in when sitting on the step in front of the house on a Sunday afternoon,. and when the trams and buses pasted, we wondered where they were going to or coming from,.
But a lot of us couldn't just leave, as they would have liked, there where others who need them and depended on them, so they stayed behind and made the best of a bad job, later, when their loved ones passed on, they could honestly say, they had done their best, and be proud of the sacrifice they had made. but far back in their minds they think "what if".a lot of us in the slums had lost one or both parents and where living with people who just tolerated you, always second best, others came first and you had what was left over, but then, one day you left school and became a worker ( a wage earner) suddenly you where the best on the block, every one wanted you to come and live with them, but in your minds eye, you could see the thin vale of unreality, again it wasn't you they wanted, but what you could bring into their pocket.
we learned a lot about human nature, which left some of us, hard and uncaring and indifferent to others,.
So next time some one says you didn't have the guts to stay. just let them stand in your shoes for a while, ( the good old days, no, I dont think so )