I guess most of you will have grown up on council estates or the suberbs/neighborhoods! etc.. Me being brought up in the country and not ever even knowing our neighbours although they didn't live that far away(that was they done thing), well it's still a great mystery of life for me what it must be like, especially council estates, i had friends at school from them, it must be a bit strange especially if you don't like your neighbours or "near bys" , i suppose you just adapt to your surroundings. What are your experiences?
Being brought up on estates, suberbs etc
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I used to live in a reasonably large town then was moved away to a tiny village, never wanted to leave and I wish it had never happened really, ah well, when you're that age there is bugger all you can do.
I live on a really nice little estate, it's not a council one, but it's not posh either. Just a nice peaceful estate for families with young kids and old people really, but everytime I walk through one of the rougher estates or drive by one I just thank **** I'm not living there. I love my little estate, I'd say it's the english version of a US picket fence neighbourhood, but god would I feel depressed walking out of my door onto one of the council estates that I'm so familiar with on the other sides of town.
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I wear a flat cap and smoke a pipe! Coucil estates ha, what are these you speak off?
i would hate to live on a council estate, never had the misfortune thankfully. gone from a detached house in a small village in the coutry to bigger villages in a semi detached and now in a close at the edge of a small town. prefered the detached house like, but if your in a nice area semi detached with lots of nice neighbours isnt so bad. if you have ever been down a council estate you get the skanky families with 20kids causing trouble all over the place, not nice lol.
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A dmpoole story :
This is an ex drummer of mine who died a few years ago Paul and I asked him how he got his facial abnormality.
He told me that he shared a drive with his neighbour but his neighbour was always blocking his path.
One day it got a bit too much for him so he confronted his neighbour and he caught him with a punch that broke his jaw & cheek and he spent 2 weeks in hospital.
Now imagine my world of council estates and what a shared drive would look like.
About 6 months later I get invited to a party and his house was a mini mansion (we knew he was a millionaire).
I asked him where his neighbour was and he pointed to a house about half a mile away.
I asked him about the shared drive and he was talking about the road we drove down to his house, there was a left turn to this other blokes house
OP - that's your world that is.
This is an ex drummer of mine who died a few years ago Paul and I asked him how he got his facial abnormality.
He told me that he shared a drive with his neighbour but his neighbour was always blocking his path.
One day it got a bit too much for him so he confronted his neighbour and he caught him with a punch that broke his jaw & cheek and he spent 2 weeks in hospital.
Now imagine my world of council estates and what a shared drive would look like.
About 6 months later I get invited to a party and his house was a mini mansion (we knew he was a millionaire).
I asked him where his neighbour was and he pointed to a house about half a mile away.
I asked him about the shared drive and he was talking about the road we drove down to his house, there was a left turn to this other blokes house
OP - that's your world that is.
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I grew up in Possilpark in Glasgow, formerly known as the most deprived area in Western Europe. It was row upon row of damp council tenements full of drug addled junkies, benefit scroungers and car thieves.
Was my journey through childhood a bad one? Hell no. If deprived means having a great school to learn in, a huge park area to play in and a dozen full size football pitches to use for free then I must have suffered without noticing. Yes, I do raise a few eyebrows when people ask where I grew up but as far as I was concerned, it was no different from anywhere else.
Was my journey through childhood a bad one? Hell no. If deprived means having a great school to learn in, a huge park area to play in and a dozen full size football pitches to use for free then I must have suffered without noticing. Yes, I do raise a few eyebrows when people ask where I grew up but as far as I was concerned, it was no different from anywhere else.
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That is a rather sweeping statement. I notice that where you live didn't help you with capitalisation, punctuation or spelling.
A dmpoole story :
This is an ex drummer of mine who died a few years ago Paul and I asked him how he got his facial abnormality.
He told me that he shared a drive with his neighbour but his neighbour was always blocking his path.
One day it got a bit too much for him so he confronted his neighbour and he caught him with a punch that broke his jaw & cheek and he spent 2 weeks in hospital.
Now imagine my world of council estates and what a shared drive would look like.
About 6 months later I get invited to a party and his house was a mini mansion (we knew he was a millionaire).
I asked him where his neighbour was and he pointed to a house about half a mile away.
I asked him about the shared drive and he was talking about the road we drove down to his house, there was a left turn to this other blokes house
OP - that's your world that is.
What?
That is a rather sweeping statement. I notice that where you live didn't help you with capitalisation, punctuation or spelling.
I don't think he was that far off the mark tbh. In every council estate you are going to get at least 1 of 'those' families. However, I'm pretty sure that every council estate has far more than just 1. It's just reality I'm afraid.
The difficulty is having no friends as a teenager because everyone around you succumbs to a state of alcohol abuse, drugs and partying at the local prostitute markets(nightclubs). Could say I apply to the stereotypical no father, neglect, abusive alcoholic stepfather and what not but no one gets to choose.
If I had the choice, would I have been brought up elsewhere? Of course, it would be nice to let your kids roam around without the fear of being battered or verbally abused. It has made me appreciate a lot more than most though, which I am grateful for.
If I had the choice, would I have been brought up elsewhere? Of course, it would be nice to let your kids roam around without the fear of being battered or verbally abused. It has made me appreciate a lot more than most though, which I am grateful for.
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Dont like either of my neighbours but it was nice being able to play out in the street with mates who lived on it because of it being a really quiet estate and never being far from someones house etc. I guess growing up in the country could have its pros, i would love to have the great outdoors on my doorstep rather than it being a good 15-20 minutes bike ride away to where the countryside really starts.
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Essentially living on one. I refuse to start a family here.
There's a collection of maybe 4 different families that turn the area into a cesspit.
There's a collection of maybe 4 different families that turn the area into a cesspit.
