New housing estate social housing

gazter

kimbyanne wrote: »

I am shocked at some of the responses, so many snobby people. As for the "do hard working families want to buy next to "social housing", seriously? So the fact I live in a shared ownership property makes me somehow less hardworking than you?

If you buy a new build, chances are (unless its a really small development) its going to have social housing. If you don't want to live near social housing, don't buy a new build, easy as that.


I live on a new build development and we purchased our house via shared ownership, it was the only way we could get out of rented as no matter how much we saved for a deposit, we were priced out. The fact that to most of you, this makes me an undesirable neighbour is ridiculous. Our house is immaculate inside and out, as is all the other "Social Housing" in our area.

I have lived there a year and the only "nuisance" neighbours I have seen are actually people who own their houses privately!

I'm not sure that shared ownership could really be considered social housing. Affordable housing, yes. Social? No.

Norman_Castle

nickyg2000 wrote: »

Btw the steriotypes are there to see fat woman smoking out their fronts doors and dropping butts on the floor etc etc and I could hear a yappy dof for the record

If you move in you could exchange skills. You could help them tidy their garden and they could help remove your ignorant naivety and develop your literacy.

makeitstop

Norman_Castle wrote: »

What difference does does it make if its social housing?. If an owner occupier or private renter does the same is that any different?.

Most interesting that you choose to highlight the part underlined in the quote above, and, no other part of what was written.

To be clear, my reference to buying near social housing was directly referring to the question posed by the OP, nothing more. Having said that, privately owned (and occupied) housing does (in my experience) suffer from less disregard than rented property, although, I am in no doubt whatsoever that people from all walks of life are capable of being indifferent, scruffy, disrespectful lazy to55ers.

Lungboy

Lily-Rose wrote: »

OK I’ll bite.

This is quite possibly the most judgemental post I have read on here for months.

I read TBeckett's post as being ironic, and actually mocking the attitude of the OP rather than agreeing. I could be wrong, but I hope not.

Pixie5740

Have you read TBeckett's other posts, like this little gem,

"I feel the same when I am standing in the airport queue waiting an hour to be welcomed back to the country I pay 60k a year income tax to. The examine my passport with suspicion. I really should just replace the passport photo page with last years p60."

Lungboy

Ah, no I hadn't.

Jhoney_2

Pixie5740 wrote: »

Have you read TBeckett's other posts, like this little gem,

"I feel the same when I am standing in the airport queue waiting an hour to be welcomed back to the country I pay 60k a year income tax to. The examine my passport with suspicion. I really should just replace the passport photo page with last years p60."

Having recently read TB's hilarious potential house buyers want to bury dog in garden before exchange thread, I am holding on to hope - for the time being...

Johnnytwostep

nickyg2000 wrote: »

I'm in the process of buying a 2 year old home on a new build estate. NOT a home my gifriend and I would go for but location and size etc are great and there's nothing else (South east). Anyway there's a far bit of social housing on the estate 5 houses next to mine, and you can tell crappy gardens with crap left out. My question is should I be worried? Or am I being s snob? It's just you don't want them to think them and us etc get a dog poo through the letter box etc! It looks like Young family's as well

Good god do not buy the house, yes you should be worried.

Give it a few months and there will be rusty cars on the drive, overgrown gardens, feral children, probably called Chelsea, Chantelle, and Bobbie-Joe running riot. All of this whist you are going out to work and they are sat inside watching jeremy kyle on their widescreen tvs, only leaving the house to pop to the off-licence to buy beer and fags.