kerrier council are throwing my family on the streets

Wee_Willy_Harris

Well then, Sherlock, you will hve noticed that as long ago as last fFeb the OP was talking about the problems her previous partner was causing.

PasturesNew

Hugbubble wrote: »

They had a BDSM club near the station??? Now I find out! :rotfl:

I think I made that bit up, a bit. Not sure what the word for it is, swingers club maybe? Perhaps just a fetish place? No idea, not been.

So ... I googled. Gaslights, 4a Penryn Street - maybe. Google Streetcar doesn't seem to have bothered with Redruth.

Seems to be respectable now: http://www.gaslightsbar.co.uk/

Hugbubble wrote: »

To be fair, on my fleeting visits home, I rarely get time to go into the town centre, so I haven't seen it for a year or three. My impressions of it are still clouded by my teenage years experiences of it. It is good to know it is improved- goodness knows, it needed it.

I've just always known it as "don't live/buy there, it's grim". I went to the cinema once and have driven through probably 4x maximum. But I did randomly spot some new indoor market that looked OK.

PasturesNew

OK, so the OP engineered a move to Cornwall, expecting to be handed a council house on a plate ... even though it has one of the biggest housing crises in the country (high prices due to 2nd/holiday homes), poor economy (Objective One funding for years as it's one of the poorest areas in the whole of Europe) ... and he thought houses were just sitting around waiting for people.

Oh dear.

As for work - to the north you have the uber-posh St Ives, only work there's probably waitressing or working in an art gallery, seasonal work only. To the south is Penzance, which sounds lovely but is really a hole and you can even snap up studio flats from £30-35k at the moment and cheap flats with sea views ... but even I'm not tempted to even go and look as it's a hole. In the middle, you have the rural/mining areas - decimated by the loss of mining in Cornwall, these communities have not recovered from all the mine closures and are simply pockets of despair.

It's not looking good is it.

Looks nice when the sun's out though, eh!

Jowo_2

A more positive interpretation, a less cynical one, is that the OP has had a traumatic personal experiences because of a controlling, abusive relationship.

This distraction, and a lack of knowing how to 'play the system' means that she wasn't equipped to deal logically with her relationship breakdown and homelessness and her ignorance in these matters meant she has disadvantaged herself and has lost her secure accommodation because she did not get timely and accurate advice.

It may be less about deviousness and more about poor decision making and a lack of ignorance about other options at the time that could have better dealt with the domestic issues.

twirlypinky

i still think that they should go home and deal with the problem in surrey rather than run away. maybe that's just me,

Hugbubble

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think I made that bit up, a bit. Not sure what the word for it is, swingers club maybe? Perhaps just a fetish place? No idea, not been.

So ... I googled. Gaslights, 4a Penryn Street - maybe. Google Streetcar doesn't seem to have bothered with Redruth.

Seems to be respectable now: http://www.gaslightsbar.co.uk/


I've just always known it as "don't live/buy there, it's grim". I went to the cinema once and have driven through probably 4x maximum. But I did randomly spot some new indoor market that looked OK.

Ahh, yes, Gaslights. Its been there since I was a kid. Never been in though. Granted, it does like pretty seedy. Mind you, I have been in the charming Twilight Zone (Redruth's only night club)....whose only claim to fame- still- is that The Hitmaker and Her was once filmed there in the 80s.

Wee_Willy_Harris

twirlypinky wrote: »

i still think that they should go home and deal with the problem in surrey rather than run away. maybe that's just me,

And, I'm sure, that would have been the advice you would have given to Samantha Stobbart.

C_Mababejive

PasturesNew wrote: »

Oh dear.

As for work - to the north you have the uber-posh St Ives, only work there's probably waitressing or working in an art gallery, seasonal work only. To the south is Penzance, which sounds lovely but is really a hole and you can even snap up studio flats from £30-35k at the moment and cheap flats with sea views ... but even I'm not tempted to even go and look as it's a hole. In the middle, you have the rural/mining areas - decimated by the loss of mining in Cornwall, these communities have not recovered from all the mine closures and are simply pockets of despair.

It's not looking good is it.

Looks nice when the sun's out though, eh!

Oh dear..

Never been to Cornwall and didnt realise that it had sh&t holes there as well...is there no escape?

Mainland Spain looks good when the sun is out also.

Lance

This was obvious from the start! "Hey guys, I tried to have the council over and jump the queue but they sussed me out." Ahhhhhhh hugs!

Wee_Willy_Harris

Lance wrote: »

This was obvious from the start! "Hey guys, I tried to have the council over and jump the queue but they sussed me out." Ahhhhhhh hugs!

She's been pretty consistant in her tale of issues with the ex partner, as far back as Feb last year. But nothing short of actually seeing it first hand will satisfy some people, which may go some way to explaining why 2 women die, on average, every week in this country at the hands of violent partners.