even the most successful Brazilian ones run for a fixed, fairly short time. Then the same lot all seem to turn up with different names but the 'glamorous victim' has now become the 'nasty scheming one'. Brazilians were always shocked when I spoke of the longevity of Coronation St and how we had accompanied some actors through a large part of their lives. I didn't even try to explain the Archers. When I moved back to the UK I watched a bit of EastEnders, only to find that actually all the same novela cliches were there.. but worse! There would be those Acorn Antiques awkward re-caps, not to mention everything else from AA in the live EE I was misfortunate enough to catch! "Ten years ago, they needed every penny to meet their bills. Today they have enough disposable income to buy mobile phones, laptops and motorbikes." Where's me quote buttons? "You've Never Had It So Good!" Utter wank mate I'm afraid. Total and utter wank. Today Brazilians have far easier access to credit to buy such things in 12x/24x/48x/60x or whatever. Brazil has made credit lines available for people over the last 6 years and people don't realise the extortionate amounts that they will have to pay back. Those amounts are rarely published, just the monthly payments. People don't have the bitter experience of credit and credit cards that we went through 20-25 years ago, it is all new to them. They don't realise that APR on these purchases