People who buy their council house
It makes my blood boil, when neighbours who have been very friendly for years, decide to buy their council house and then change completely over night. From that moment onwards, they get to be snobbish and look down their noses at you as if you are from another planet!
Also, it’s around about then that you start to have regular arguments over the kids and where they can play. When the ball gets kicked over the fence accidentally there’s a right argument. Before they were home owners they used to join in and throw it back - it was all a bit of fun.
Kids play a bit of football for goodness sake so what’s the problem? Instead of being reasonable about it all, now they KEEP the ball and shout at the kids.
Then there’s the possessive attitude towards parking spaces. You park your car where you've always parked it, on the street where you live. There aren’t really allocated parking spaces with council houses, but here they come again, banging on the door and yelling abuse because apparently your car is in the way!
What is it with who buy their own home?
What is it with who buy their own home? Why do people turn overnight into completely selfish horrible people? Owning your house, whether it is an ex-council property or not does not make you a better person. They’re just trying to show off and it has turned them into argumentative fuddy-duddy’s.
Get back to reality – It’s a council house after all even if you are well off enough to buy it!
By: Delboy
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It's fair enough that, something you own, naturally you want to take care of and protect, and the change of attitude is understandable!! It's always been a very British thing to be almost snobbish about something you own but if you set out to alienate people, this is your own choice!! It's also that old-fashioned class barrier - I doubt that this will EVER cease to exist!! It's the way it is!! No amount and ranting and raving will change this!!
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Must get that new front door on as soon as posible.
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Snobs are pretentious prats. They behave as they do due to their own insecurities. I have met many of these "I am better than you" prats and have found most of them to be semi illiterate halfwits who have never achieved anything worthwhile in their lives. I knew two people, one was an accountant and the other was an office manager. Sadly they are no longer with us because when they lost their jobs and were unable to find positions of the same level, they ended up committing suicide. They did not take their own lives because of financial circumstances, it was because they considered themselves too superior to take a lesser position, true. The accountant even kept it from his wife for almost a year, he spent all their savings and took a loan out on their home so that he could still give the impression that he was an accountant. Sad....but his problem was that he was a snob....how pathetic are these people.
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I own an ex council house and I am not a snob , you should not generalise about people because of your own bad exreinces! you " get back to reality" Delboy, there are good and bad
neighbours in ever road in the country, council or private, and if a person works hard and finds
themselves with enough money to buy a house how can that be wrong?
neighbours in ever road in the country, council or private, and if a person works hard and finds
themselves with enough money to buy a house how can that be wrong?
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Sorry just to add to the original post, im sad that your neighbours seemed to change like that but I cant say it applies to all. My dad worked his backside off all his life, paid for a house for me an my mum in the divorce settlement meaning he himhels had to rent from the council for years, eventually he applied to buy that house and hes now able to decorate, convert and modernise everything to suit himself. Its a good thing to give us the option to buy but its also sad that it can change people that way.
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Wow I didnt know there were such snobs in the world! Follies you seem to think you are of a better standard to other human beings but I can gaurantee you are the lowest of the liw with your old fashioned views! I really hope council tenants buy every house in your street just to teach you a lesson! Its people like you who deserve to be hit by the recession just to show you are not fit to lick theyre boots simply because you are a vile, narrow minded horrible person! And that goes for anybody who agrees!
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I can't even be bothered to dignify you with a reasoned response. If I said today was Thursday you'd argue it.
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Left behind Freddie? you could not leave anybody behind. There are people who hold a fundamental belief in Corpy/Council housing. It was built to give a proper home to folk, who in some cases had been bombed out of their own. It was not about money, it was a social thing. Thatcher encouraged greedy folk to jump on the band wagon. Some bought their parents homes & paid the council mortgage with the rent they charged mum & dad. They then sold the X corpy house on at a vast profit when the parent died. If you are one of those, so be it, I personally think it is disgusting. Believe me there are council tenants who have higher morals & social standards than you could hope to achieve with your views.
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Connor, I think you've hit the nail on the head there. People who try to get ahead in this world are looked on poorly by those they leave behind. The option to buy their council house has been available to all. Those that didn't take the chance have nobody to blame but themselves. Sod them!
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I have to disagree with you :/
We bought our house from the council, but I'd say we were friendlier than the majority of people we live near who haven't, I regularly have a chat with the immediate neighbours, but the rest are so out of line just because we own our house, we've learnt not to bother with them.
We bought our house from the council, but I'd say we were friendlier than the majority of people we live near who haven't, I regularly have a chat with the immediate neighbours, but the rest are so out of line just because we own our house, we've learnt not to bother with them.
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Everything you said is bang on. My neighbours own there own house and do all those things, keep the kids balls, knock our door asking whos cars that outside there house, your kids bounce to high on the trampoline and look over the garden, your kids sing to loud, ive lived here 18 years with not one complaint until these horrible nosey couple move in who spend most of there lives talking about people on the front gate. Big deal there private im council, woopy doo does it give them the right to treat me like crap. THINK NOT.
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council tenant - 7-Mar-11 19:55
The sale of council houses has changed many estates in London from friendly places to cold, alien places as so many were bought on re-sale by buy to let landlords who rent to mostly migrants on very short lets.
The properties are often grossly overcrowded and the tenants are exploited by charging high rents for sub standard properties. They have no sense of community as they know they are not staying long and , if they are illegals , they are nervous of what they think of as intrusion if neighbours try to get to know them.
For the long term residents, their once friendly estate becomes a place where they know very few people and can rely on no one anymore.
The properties are often grossly overcrowded and the tenants are exploited by charging high rents for sub standard properties. They have no sense of community as they know they are not staying long and , if they are illegals , they are nervous of what they think of as intrusion if neighbours try to get to know them.
For the long term residents, their once friendly estate becomes a place where they know very few people and can rely on no one anymore.
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that is a lie this society made council estates and thesepeople are the result of trauma childhoods that has prevented them from learning as you did but these people are surviving life daily you live your life they learn skills that you would probably need a university course to concur you need to get to know people before you can judge them your experience was from a single person who obviously said something that hit a nerve in you and brought up a truth that has you trying to expose everyone the same shame on you
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the negotiator - 7-Jan-11 00:57
I work in the construction industry and have for the last twenty years. and I am shocked that we now have a prime minister that wants to get rid of genuine working people that pay taxes, who live in council houses. It must be said that there is a stigma with people that live in council houses,that they are all off lower class, the poor,the unski11ed. To the (so called goverment)that we have now, how many of those MPs were brought up and in the sixties that came from that background themselves.There is of coarse the element which lets us hard working, tax paying, family orientaded, people down.The inner cities, the benefits, the lack of manafacturing, and in the loss of apprenticeships in the 80s.,this but to name a few.The expences scandal were paying for that in everyway,for those so called MPs five years there gone with payout plus tips!!! We live in a throw away world and it hurts me deep down Not all people who live in council houses are stereotypical. So mr Cameron line your pockets help the rich and starve the poor. PS hows maggie
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whether you think that these people are snobs or not they have the right to buy their council house and actually are doing society a favour by doing so. council housing has been proven to be a failure. council estates are breeding grounds for crime, yob culture, and teenage pregnancy. what the government need to focus on is affordable housing for the masses. it has been proven that council houses provide the occupent with no sense of ownership and that is why they don't respect it and let the neighboughood fall into a state of disrapair. both physically and socially.
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mardi gras the candyman can - 6-Nov-10 19:00
follies
I know what you mean. I live in a very nice block of flats, occupied mostly by older people. People here look after their flats and keep their balconies pretty all summer with pots of flowers and hanging baskets. It is a quiet place and I have never had a problem with my neighbours - none of them play loud music or do diy at unreasonable times.
The houses behind the flats are a different matter. They use power garden tools late into the evening, have loud booze fueled parties and bbqs late into the night and often amplify music into their gardens.
They have dogs which they bring to our nicely kept lawns to do their business and, of course, they just leave the dog dirt there.
Several of them have those stupid little mini motorbikes which they ride up and down at all hours in the summer in the road behind our flats.
Oh, did I mention that the flats are occupied by council tenants and the houses are on a small private estate and cost about £400,000 to £700,000 to buy?
I know what you mean. I live in a very nice block of flats, occupied mostly by older people. People here look after their flats and keep their balconies pretty all summer with pots of flowers and hanging baskets. It is a quiet place and I have never had a problem with my neighbours - none of them play loud music or do diy at unreasonable times.
The houses behind the flats are a different matter. They use power garden tools late into the evening, have loud booze fueled parties and bbqs late into the night and often amplify music into their gardens.
They have dogs which they bring to our nicely kept lawns to do their business and, of course, they just leave the dog dirt there.
Several of them have those stupid little mini motorbikes which they ride up and down at all hours in the summer in the road behind our flats.
Oh, did I mention that the flats are occupied by council tenants and the houses are on a small private estate and cost about £400,000 to £700,000 to buy?
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Oh how disgraceful is that ! Just imagine having to live near a common person. Be careful they might even let " darkies " live near you soon. I sincerely hope that you don't have your own house repossessed when you lose your job and can't afford to pay your mortgage or even worse pay taxes to support the "council people ". You might even realise that your excreta does stink after all follies.
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Have you thought of the impact on private householders when people who buy council houses (having got a 'foot on the ladder' ) then move out into private housing areas.
They then unfortunately bring the standards of behaviour that are all too common on council estates with them.
I don't want scruffy kids playing football outside my house while their parents are shouting to them at the top of their voices to 'come in for tea' or whatever. Old furniture and car tyres in the front gardens, barking dogs, we all know the scene.
We now have ex-council house residents either side of us and knowing I have not only subsidised their original house purchase through my taxes, but I will also see the price of my own house dragged down now because of them, makes my blood boil.
Probably not the answer you wanted, but council housing and private home ownership do NOT mix.
They then unfortunately bring the standards of behaviour that are all too common on council estates with them.
I don't want scruffy kids playing football outside my house while their parents are shouting to them at the top of their voices to 'come in for tea' or whatever. Old furniture and car tyres in the front gardens, barking dogs, we all know the scene.
We now have ex-council house residents either side of us and knowing I have not only subsidised their original house purchase through my taxes, but I will also see the price of my own house dragged down now because of them, makes my blood boil.
Probably not the answer you wanted, but council housing and private home ownership do NOT mix.
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bought usually with the aid of a large discount ! I wish these owner occupiers would realise that we who continue to rent, have subsidised their cheap house. The government dropped the biggest clanger every allowing social housing to be bought.
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well at least they have gone out to earn the money to buy a council house unlike your lazy self who lounges around all day getting the government to pay all your housing costs
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