People who buy their council house

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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?

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.

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.

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.

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

So what are you saying that all people that own council houses have purchased them with there benefits.
They go to work just the same as anybody else and save there money and buy a house in stead of drugs?
Not all people that live on council estates are scum you know.

You can't STILL be blaming Maggie for goodness' sake! It's far more likely that the shortage is due to the vastly increased numbers of people who want council houses in the first place! This is due to increased house prices and more people wanting to live off the hard work of others who pay taxes.

frankiedadgad, it IS margaret thatcher's fault, as she refused to let the councils spend the money raised from the sales on building new houses.

I don't think people should buy their council house. It reduces the stock of rentable homes for poor families.

It works both ways by the way.I bought my council house(not to showoff!)as it seemed a good idea,why keep on paying rising rent when for me it was more economical to pay a mortgage.It was cheaper and at some point it would be mine as I had looked after and improved it at my own expense.My neighbours either side were nice and it was on the whole a good place to live.Overnight almost everything changed my neighbour became abusive,calling me a person with ideas above her station,if renting from the council was good enough for her,than it was good enough for me was her attitude.Nothing had changed only I had gone from rent to mortgage.I put it down to jealousy.I put my car in my drive,not because my tyres were too good to touch council ground but I thought it would help ease the congestion for all residents regardless of who paid rent or mortgage.

It is not the fault of margaret thatcher or council tennants who have purchased their properties under the right to buy scheme that have caused a housing shortage,many people I know purchased a council owned property years before Maggie came along.
The problem is not enough new ones were built from the revenue made on purchase of these houses, where did the money go?
And another point there are hundreds of empty properties the lenth and breadth of this land....Why.

The way I see it is that we all poop the same so who is different from who?