How many here grew up in state housing?

[FnG]magnolia;27938970 said:
Christchurch is not representative of NZ, thankfully. It's probably the least hospitable place I've had the misfortune of visiting and whilst the issues they've had with earthquakes and rebuilding are undeniably sad, it's just such a thankless city. It wants to be English - it wants to be Surrey, actually - but loses all of the positive things while keeping most of the terrible ones.

To answer the OP, no, I did not.
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Not seen enough of NZ to compare. Only the major cities of which I found Wellington to be old and crumbling and all around dirty, and Auckland quite delightful.

In Christchurch they have the rare chance to practically rebuild an entire city. Not often you get the chance to do that. Hopefully it's done wisely.
 
council house all my days, then when I got married moved into what was my grans old council house (my parents had bought it and theirs by that stage and gran had passed away)

ashamed? as a kid for some reason I did feel a bit ashamed and didn't like to say where I lived, now though not in the slightest. my parents worked their socks off to give me and my brother the up bringing we had and to feed us and keep a roof over our heads. actually rather proud of where I'm from
 
regulus said:
Not seen enough of NZ to compare. Only the major cities of which I found Wellington to be old and crumbling and all around dirty, and Auckland quite delightful.

In Christchurch they have the rare chance to practically rebuild an entire city. Not often you get the chance to do that. Hopefully it's done wisely.
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My partner was brought up in New Plymouth, by all accounts, that was pretty rough.
 
Yep, and do not feel ashamed of the fact in the slightest.

Strangely enough I moved back to the estate about 3 years ago and its still a brilliant place to live, most of the houses have now been bought anyway.

When I was growing up it was a constant source of ridicule, but looking at how things are now its rather gratifying to see that the "nicer or posh" estate where those people lived has now gone drastically down hill and most of those bullies are either dead, druggies or in complete dead end jobs.

Nothing wrong with social housing in the slightest, there should be much, much more of it.
 
zootfloot said:
Yep, and do not feel ashamed of the fact in the slightest.

Strangely enough I moved back to the estate about 3 years ago and its still a brilliant place to live, most of the houses have now been bought anyway.

When I was growing up it was a constant source of ridicule, but looking at how things are now its rather gratifying to see that the "nicer or posh" estate where those people lived has now gone drastically down hill and most of those bullies are either dead, druggies or in complete dead end jobs.

Nothing wrong with social housing in the slightest, there should be much, much more of it.
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agreed

they have learnt lesson, I'd kill to get my hands on a new social housing house. they are all well kitted out, mainly semi detached, nice planning

grew up in a housing state myself and not ashamed at all.
we had lots of mates and places to play
most people were buying their homes and doing them up.
I was lucky to not be in a bad area though, some were a bit rough but gradually they cleaned up
 
I did not, but had friends that did. Didn't really think much of it - their houses looked the same as any other and were perfectly nice people.
 
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