Folks standing in your street, frequently

always_sunny

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Thank goodness I don't live where you live!:eek:

In London/SE is (I thought) common. I remember once pulling up with the car near Catford Bridge Poundstretcher to get some detergents and just in the car park there would always be 20/30 blokes 'awaiting' for work. Mostly Eastern Europeans.

AFAIK they don't cause any troubles, my only reason to ask is cause I have never experience so closed to my front door...feeling (yes) a little paranoid leaving the house with suitcases going on vacation!

Lily-Rose_3

Annoying as it is for you, you can't do much about it. It's a free country, and if they're in a public place, and causing no harm or bother, they have a right to be there really.

Not being funny or deliberately provocative, but maybe you have too much time on your hands if something so small is bothering you? And what, are you just sitting there waiting for them, so you can see them there and complain? It seems like a very petty and irrelevant complaint.

It's not as bad for you as it is for my next door neighbour; 3 or 4 women from the houses opposite regularly come to talk to his neighbour, and all of them walk RIGHT up HIS drive, virtually to the kitchen window, (which is at the side of the house,) to talk to the woman on her drive! Bizarre as they don't walk up HER drive LOL! They walk up his and talk over the fence!

He has no gate so can't keep them out! Now THAT is worth a complaint as they are on his drive!

I don't mean to be cranky or mean BTW, it's just that your complaint seems massively trivial. And I can't fathom how it's affecting your life.

pollyanna24

My parents have a similar thing outside their house. Well, next door, more specifically.

Eastern Europeans live next door and I can only assume every room is let out and they find it easier / more social to sit outside on their own wall rather than sit in their rooms as they probably don't have a living room.

I find it annoying and a bit intimidating every time I'm either going in to my parents or leaving, but have accepted it is the way it is in some areas of North London where the vast majority are renters in HMO.

Tiddlywinks

'Side walk', 'dude'? You do know we're in the UK?

missbiggles1

always_sunny wrote: »

In London/SE is (I thought) common. I remember once pulling up with the car near Catford Bridge Poundstretcher to get some detergents and just in the car park there would always be 20/30 blokes 'awaiting' for work. Mostly Eastern Europeans.

AFAIK they don't cause any troubles, my only reason to ask is cause I have never experience so closed to my front door...feeling (yes) a little paranoid leaving the house with suitcases going on vacation!

But that's in a shop car park, not in a residential area!

zarf2007

pollyanna24 wrote: »

My parents have a similar thing outside their house. Well, next door, more specifically.

Eastern Europeans live next door and I can only assume every room is let out and they find it easier / more social to sit outside on their own wall rather than sit in their rooms as they probably don't have a living room.

I find it annoying and a bit intimidating every time I'm either going in to my parents or leaving, but have accepted it is the way it is in some areas of North London where the vast majority are renters in HMO.

yeah maybe some people need to think of this when they vote 'remain'....we really need low skilled people in HMO's driving down salaries, increasing costs on NHS/schools/tax credits....

but hey, noone wants to speak the truth for fear of being labelled racist.

ctbfc

pollyanna24 wrote: »

My parents have a similar thing outside their house. Well, next door, more specifically.

Eastern Europeans live next door and I can only assume every room is let out and they find it easier / more social to sit outside on their own wall rather than sit in their rooms as they probably don't have a living room.

I find it annoying and a bit intimidating every time I'm either going in to my parents or leaving, but have accepted it is the way it is in some areas of North London where the vast majority are renters in HMO.

Not in Cricklewood by any chance?

When I was a delivery driver there were groups of people there on the streets waiting for work. I did on a couple of occasions see police speaking to them and checking ID's.

always_sunny

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

'Side walk', 'dude'? You do know we're in the UK?

'Side walk' = footpath
'dude' = bloke

how do you manage to order a beer across the channel?

always_sunny

warehouse wrote: »

You appear to be one of the many idiots now frequenting this site.

Thank you!!!
I was starting to think I was over-imagining things!
As I said, they cause no harm I am slowly getting used to but find it a bit odd!

lewishardwick

zarf2007 wrote: »

yeah maybe some people need to think of this when they vote 'remain'....we really need low skilled people in HMO's driving down salaries, increasing costs on NHS/schools/tax credits....

but hey, noone wants to speak the truth for fear of being labelled racist.

We only have ourselves to blame for that. Most people think themselves too good for 'menial work'. "I'm not cleaning toilets, that's disgusting!", "I don't want to work out in the heat all day picking fruit!"

So here we have people coming over here, 'slumming it' for a couple of years while they work hard and take their cash back home with them where it's worth a lot more. I really don't blame them!

Do you really think if we leave the EU we'll kick out every single migrant worker. If you think the NHS is screwed now, just you wait.