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Who lives in Council or H>A property ?

Current Living Situation?

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brimz

brimz

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As a bove can i get a poll

Parents
Shared house
Council or h.A
HOstel waiting for housing
OWNER
Private flat
Student halls

oh yeah n Mansion;)

knock , alb get on it plesase will be well intresting sociology ;)8(:o
 
Woo I did it!

I'm back and living with my parents while I sort out my own place. Before that it was a seven person shared house
 
Good work snolly! It might be useful to split OWNER into Paying the Mortgage and Fully Paid Off. But it's Brimz's poll, what do you think Brimz?


edit: and yeah I'm paying off an 18 year mortgage, would be paid off in 2021 if I stay here but I plan to sell up and go back to renting. I like the freedom of movement that renting gives you. Not saying you can't move if you buy, but there are more obstacles and risks. My parent's next door neighbours have had their house on the market for two years now and no-one is looking at it. They moved to their new place ages ago, I think the mrs inherited a house. When you're buying and selling it can take a long time and you can lose out (and possibly gain, of course) financially.

I suppose if I'd bought a place in a proper city rather than this large-but-dull town then I would happy enough to be a home-owner. At the moment I just feel a bit stuck. So much work to do before I can sell this place without taking a hit at the bank.
 
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6 person share with only one functional shower and fridge. Just getting used to having to excavate a space on the work surface between empty wrappers, crumbs and spilled sauce just to make some food. The mouldy walls are gross too, agency just says "Well it's condensation what can we do".

What's so bad about halls, I quite liked it other than having to smoke my weed in the bathroom and having to pick up my RCs from the security desk 0.o
 
I'm not 100% clear what you mean by Private Flat, brimz. Do you mean an individual renting a flat to themselves in the private sector? Or could it be an owner-occupied flat? And what if it's not a flat?

I guess if I'd done this poll I'd have used the following options:


Owner-occupied, paid-up
Owner-occupied, paying off
Privately rented home
Privately rented room in a share
Council or HA
Hostel awaiting housing
Student halls
Parents
Homeless
The Ritz
Spade's Mum

Not sure whether it being a flat or a house, semi or fully detached, is relevant to the poll.
 
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6 person share with only one functional shower and fridge. Just getting used to having to excavate a space on the work surface between empty wrappers, crumbs and spilled sauce just to make some food. The mouldy walls are gross too, agency just says "Well it's condensation what can we do".

What's so bad about halls, I quite liked it other than having to smoke my weed in the bathroom and having to pick up my RCs from the security desk 0.o
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I'm just (relatively) old for halls and the noise and having to hide under a tree in the middle of a field/bathroom to smoke pot got on my tits. My place was actually pretty nice, was a disabled flat with three rooms and two relatively quiet lads, though I corrupted one via the medium of drugs, which was nice. I've seen some horrific halls though, mate had a place in Manchester for a while that was like summat out a horror film. Shared house was probably worse on reflection, for the reasons you mentioned above, and being in the front room right next to the fucking doorbell. Also living with the most racist homophobic EDL supporting inexplicably punk music listening arsehole ever. That was a mistake, on reflection.

I am also in the lovely position of paying off a mortgage whilst not actually officially having a house, which is fun. And if it goes through, the neighbours will probably hate me.
 
I live in my mates one bedroom housing association flat. I have got the bedroom as my room and my mate uses the living room as his bedroom.
So officially homeless as I'm not supposed to be living here.
 
I used to live in a burned out factory for a while but I been in council places for a while (thank god)

The council yard I got atm is very nice, no skyrise 13th floor 'ting for me now :)
I got a duplex flat & the top part is mine, the bottom bit is a bedsit, my part is a usual flat.
 
my dad has done for most of his life, and my mum and stepdad did for a while. I live in my own privately bought house now. Me too about the mortage, what stress Id be under if i hadnt got that paid off.

What really amuses me is the small town snobbery about council estates. The pople on the newer estate on one side of town openly look down their noses at people who live on the other estate. Its fuckin ridicuolus, the older estate is in a farmore picturesque setingfor a start, river views and all that.

You possibly escape some of that narrow petty minded snobbery living in cities. Ive not lived in a city council estate.
 
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knock it's well diff in jock land i lived in brigton cross n cheaspside st Hostel lol!

3 hostels in my home town all drug ridden .

on my 3rd council flat in aqua .... the only nice one 1st was on druggy estate 2nd bloke got busted for crack 6 years he was using a retarted woman as his stash said it was his kids presents 6 years out soon .
 
I'm still in the same shared house I moved into nearly three bloody years ago after a few months sleeping on a mate's couch after my life unravelled (again).

It wasn't until this year that I realised the full horror of it all, because prior to then I spent most of my free time at my ex-girlfriend's place. I need to move out for privacy's sake (if not sanity's sake) but I also need to make sure I'm well enough to cope when that happens. Privacy and peace are great incentives to get it together.

It's a roof over my head though, and the people I live with are tidy enough. I just don't like the fact that they eat, talk and shag so much.
 
Some Council estates are real shit places, the one I used to live on had 1,500 people on it in such a small area & of course some are real crime hotspots & don't really have the best of people living there but some people are damn snobs when they have a view on social housing.

The woman I am with now when we first got together used to be really scared to come visit me & I would have to go meet her off the bus as she didn't want to walk around the estate by herself, she felt more safe in my company as I knew all the shotta's etc there (most of 'em I scored off myself)

As I said before I used to live with BHM in a skyrise block on the 13th floor, it was a real dump but the view was amazing, I used to love go outside on the balconey & watch the world go by & you could see for miles, the best was when a storm came, as you were so high you could have an amazing view of the thunder & lightning, everything has it's good points I guess plus one of my ex dealers lived on the 11th floor & we were on the 13th so when he turned off for the night I had nearly 24/7 access to him & didn't mind serving me at 7am when he woke up :)
 
I didn't know whether to pick owner - fully paid up or owner - still paying mortage because I've paid off my two main residences but have a few others on a low interest mortgage for rent purposes.

Therefore I picked fully paid off.
 
I'm a freeholder (she says, expecting brickbats). But when I moved in, I was technically a squatter; because my solicitors were dragging their heels and I had not completed by the time my tenancy ended on the place I was renting. So I took full advantage of the estate agents being very lax with keys, and moved in anyway!

Under the law at the time, I was actually the only person legally allowed to evict myself without a court order .....
 
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