The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

GDB2222

Pastures, how are you going to find a new home that has no kids in the vicinity? Is there a strategy you can follow?

If you find a child free zone, will it remain so?

Pyxis

Oh yes! That's another thing! :rotfl:
I don't like drinking beer from a half-pint mug shaped glass....... I much prefer a stemmed goblet! It tastes nicer! :rotfl:

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, how are you going to find a new home that has no kids in the vicinity? Is there a strategy you can follow?

If you find a child free zone, will it remain so?

I think it's a case of finding a property that doesn't have a kid-magnet open space near it, like a parking area or bank of garages, or an open plan space in the front, or a house that's in a Close.

I'm sure Pastures has said that she doesn't mind children playing in their own gardens, but not when they are rampaging around her car or on her property or up her fences!

And with your own perfectly defined boundary, it's easier to ward off invaders!

Jackmydad

Pyxis wrote: »

I think it's a case of finding a property that doesn't have a kid-magnet open space near it, like a parking area or bank of garages, or an open plan space in the front, or a house that's in a Close.

I'm sure Pastures has said that she doesn't mind children playing in their own gardens, but not when they are rampaging around her car or on her property or up her fences!

And with your own perfectly defined boundary, it's easier to ward off invaders!

It's what I think. These open plan places are all well and good, but the people who plan them probably live in moated Elizabethan manor houses themselves.

I like a well defined "**** off" zone around me.
If you're inside it without my permission you'll be told to **** off!

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

Pastures, how are you going to find a new home that has no kids in the vicinity? Is there a strategy you can follow?

If you find a child free zone, will it remain so?

As pyxis said ... it's not that they can't exist ... but I want the ability to monitor/defend/fence off my bit...

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

It's what I think. These open plan places are all well and good, but the people who plan them probably live in moated Elizabethan manor houses themselves.

I like a well defined "**** off" zone around me.
If you're inside it without my permission you'll be told to **** off!

That should be on Estate Agents' house particulars:

"This well-appointed house comes with a WD FoZ".


I just love it!

My dream house would deffo have a well-defined FoZ! :rotfl:

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

It's what I think. These open plan places are all well and good, but the people who plan them probably live in moated Elizabethan manor houses themselves.

It's like hotels.....

The very good hotels make a point of getting a manager to spend a night in each room, checking everything out to see how user-friendly it is, and putting right anything that isn't.

If developers had to live in their properties for a while, then these problems might not arise quite so much.

I didn't watch it, but wasn't there a programme once where a landlord had to swap places with his tenant for a week? I think it was a genuine eye-opener for some of them.

silvercar

I didn't watch it, but wasn't there a programme once where a landlord had to swap places with his tenant for a week? I think it was a genuine eye-opener for some of them.

The week the landlords moved in

Jackmydad

The one problem is that people think they can do as they please without any fear of rebuke or retribution.
The other problem is that they largely can do as they please without any fear of rebuke or retribution.

The law has become an arris. In the old days if you were standing in the street shouting obscene words, someone would have come out and "remonstrated strongly" with you.

These days any "strong remonstration" would probably end up with the wrong person being locked up.

We have in effect made an "idiot's charter" where nothing can be done by the individual, or will be done by the authorities, to curtail the behaviour of idiots.

Jackmydad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Then we give them a free house and income ... giving them somewhere to sh4g and generate another generation of idiots

Bizarrely, if I said where I lived and asked 100 people in the street "tell me about this place..." they'd all say "oooh lovely, generally older people, well heeled, pleasant, a lovely place, I'd love to live there/love to be able to afford to live there... they're so lucky". Unfortunately .... no area is 100% the idyllic place the media have you believe. Scum are allowed to rent anywhere... and it only takes one to make life miserable for 100. In my case I have found a lot of them, when one leaves, another problem arrives.... and the "rough estates" aren't even here - they're other parts of the town.

My mate lives on one of the rough estates... I never see this nonsense when I go there... but, if you buy there, you expect it, it's part of the deal you're buying into.

Don't get me started PN!
There was something in one of the papers some years back about some tiny % of the population causing nearly all the various types of nuisance. Civil and criminal.
Everyone knows who they are.
Why aren't they stopped?