Price Crash

drc

carolt wrote: »

NB Has anyone here who rents ever experienced being 'mocked' for this in real life? Let alone kids knowing or caring about such things?

Written by a troll without kids I suspect.

Maybe Hamish wasn't such a bad guess after all.

We're some of those poor plebs who rent and if our little one was to be teased because he lives in a rented flat, I'd say that says more about the upbringing of the kids doing the teasing and suggest that he makes new friends who aren't bullies.

Idiophreak

One of the first jokes I learnt at school was "what are those little boxes on the front of satellite dishes called? council houses" - I'm fairly sure council house tenants took a ribbing at our school, but not private rental...As long as you didn't get given school dinners, you were OK.

silvercar

Idiophreak wrote: »

One of the first jokes I learnt at school was "what are those little boxes on the front of satellite dishes called? council houses" - I'm fairly sure council house tenants took a ribbing at our school, but not private rental...As long as you didn't get given school dinners, you were OK.

You must be young. Satellite dishes didn't exist when I was at school.

doire_2

Treliac wrote: »

I hope prices crash so I can buy a house. Sick of the stigma of living in rented with 2 kids. Their friends constantly mock them cause we rent. Antbody else suffering like this?

What a load of cr.ap

carolt

Really2 wrote: »

TBH I used to get teased for living on a council estate back in the 80's/90's as a child.

It is usually the parents who pass on these type of views to their children, because kids are not usualy interested in housing.

So not as an adult but at school yes.
But kids usually tease about something just glad I wasn't ginger.:D

There aren't any council estates near me, but I'd like to think the kids at my kids' school were more senstive than to scoff at another kid because they lived in 1!

My DD did once go to play with a little boy in her class who was an only child and whose parents lived in a (acc to my DD) very cramped flat. This seemed odd to her, as everyone she knew lived in family houses. But I don't think it would have occured to her to mock, let alone mention it to him. She asked me (she was about 5 at the time).

I explained that (a) they didn't need a whole big house as there were only 3 of them, and (b) the boy and his family came from another country where living in flats was the norm (they emigrated back there or whatever the correct term is for returning to one's country of origin, a short time later).

Really2

carolt wrote: »

There aren't any council estates near me, but I'd like to think the kids at my kids' school were more senstive than to scoff at another kid because they lived in 1!

Do you live in a new town Carol?

It is very rare that a area does not have any council/social(or now HA) housing. You may just not be aware of it, in the town I used to live some of the council houses were Victorian, hardly you typical but still council.

carolt

Really2 wrote: »

Do you live in a new town Carol?

It is very rare that a area does not have any council/social(or now HA) housing. You may just not be aware of it, in the town I used to live some of the council houses were Victorian, hardly you typical but still council.

No, a village. It does have some council houses (v few as mostly sold off under RTB) but no estates - just a couple of streets with a few houses each, that's all.

Really2

carolt wrote: »

No, a village. It does have some council houses (v few as mostly sold off under RTB) but no estates - just a couple of streets with a few houses each, that's all.

Well, perhaps I should have put it as council house the town I lived in was only a population of 60,000 but still council estates in the catchment areas for schools (council estate would be say 50-60 houses) The area was so rural the catchment area was over 14 miles for most schools .
I would be amazed such a small village does not have a fair amount of council properties in it's catchment area.
Council properties are more common in rural/semi rural areas than city's and large towns.

Idiophreak

silvercar wrote: »

You must be young. Satellite dishes didn't exist when I was at school.

You must be old. Satellite dishes existed when I was at school.

carolt

Really2 wrote: »

Well, perhaps I should have put it as council house the town I lived in was only a population of 60,000 but still council estates in the catchment areas for schools (council estate would be say 50-60 houses) The area was so rural the catchment area was over 14 miles for most schools .
I would be amazed such a small village does not have a fair amount of council properties in it's catchment area.
Council properties are more common in rural/semi rural areas than city's and large towns.

But you were at school some time ago. I'd expect if you went back now you'd find most of those council houses were now in private hands, if they were in OK areas.

20-30 years ago, this village would have had more council houses too - but not any more. We considered buying one but didn't (nothing to do with it being ex-council, BTW; problems with the vendor).