When one English person quite casually asks another, 'How's life?' (etc.) and the answer comes, '[I] can't complain / mustn't grumble', what do you think the second speaker really means?

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When one English person quite casually asks another, 'How's life?' (etc.) and the answer comes, '[I] can't complain / mustn't grumble', what do you think the second speaker really means?