I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I grew up in a very modest house. We were poor-we lived on the poverty level. We all got jobs as young kids.
My family was mostly unemployed working class.
I grew up in an underprivileged home.
I was just a regular kid in poverty, struggling.
I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.
I grew up in a working class neighborhood in Sweden, which, during my teens, gentrified and is now completely middle class and even upper middle class.
I grew up in a family struggling for work.
People always say that Glasgow has had umpteen social problems but keeps finding ways of getting over its difficulties and transforming itself. Maybe, belonging to the city I'm able to renew myself too, and keep extending out into some new area.
My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.
I grew up in northwest London on a council estate. My parents are Irish immigrants who came over here when they were very young and worked in menial jobs all their lives, and I'm one of many siblings.