What is the English equivalent to the proverb "Somebody finds his soup not thick enough, and somebody finds his pearls too small"

Question

What's the equivalent to the Russian proverb "Somebody finds his soup not thick enough, and somebody finds his pearls too small"("Кому суп не густ, кому жемчуг мелок")?

It means a situation when one person takes what he has for granted and thus affords himself to complain about the faults of the luxurious things he possesses, whereas somebody, in contrast, doesn't have too many things, sometimes even basic ones, like a good meal. The proverb can be used both literally and refer to something material and figuratively.

Answer 1

Perhaps the nearest is Chandler's sarcastic complaint in Friends season 2: "My wallet is too small for my fifties and my diamond shoes are too tight." This, and particularly the last 6 words, are widely quoted.

The notion of "first world problems" is similar, denoting things that would be trivial to most of the world's population. Wikipedia says it was coined in 1979 in G. K. Payne's Built Environment, and popularised online in 2005, becoming a hashtag and entering dictionaries. It maybe suggests things that are slightly more common and widespread than pearl size, so it's not quite the same.

Answer 2

In the film Annie Hall, there is a Woody Allen bit known for quoting an old joke about two old women complaining about being at a fancy mountain resort:

“There's an old joke - um... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions."

This joke goes back to at least 1927, quite popularized since used as a caption to an illustration in Bronx Ballads. Being food and luxury related, it shows what somebody can take for granted.

Like StuartF mentioned, this is an example of a first world problem or luxury problem. The punchline "And such small portions!" is quoted on its own enough to become a stand-alone line for perspective on complaining about something that really isn't that bad. At least you have food to eat at that terribly pricey restaurant you can afford at the awfully charming vacation spot.