I moved to a new build estate. I’ve never seen ANYTHING like it.
There’s a neighbourhood watch who put letters out on people’s cars if they’re parked in the estate. In fact a few cars got covered in tomato ketchup for being left here... not even specifically outside peoples houses. Some of the neighbours go out and moan at people parked anywhere near their house.
You get letters through the door if your bins aren’t in the back garden by 3pm the day they’re emptied (I don’t know what happens when you both work till 5pm!) there are a lot of moaning posts if it’s windy and bin day. One of the residents goes out and picks up litter, which is normal I guess but I’ve never seen it before.
There’s lots of moaning that there will be council accommodation on the estate and shock horror, the house prices!!
They currently have 3 different lawsuits ongoing with the housebuilder, the maintenance company who deals with the estates grass etc and I don’t even know who else.
One of the home owners asked the other day if the estate had security because they saw someone in a security outfit (there’s still buildingwork ongoing- there is security on that site nothing to do with the residents and FWIW it’s clear. This is answered by loads of ....maybe answers, and I start to think I don’t even live in this world. It’s clear we don’t have security! Who on earth would be paying for it? .....and one person pipes up with, ask to see their ID and their credentials (he wasn’t joking!)
Oh and there are pictures on the Facebook group - which you have to send your address to join by the way!) of every person they’ve ever seen walking through the estate.
Today someone posts a picture, someone posts a picture of two people, and one of them is out patrolling the estate for those not belonging here.
Please, please tell me I just live in a weird place and everywhere is not like this.
I find it beyond odc, a few of the other residents think it is beyond hilarious, and I used to laugh but it’s starting to bewilder me how grown ups who own houses, honestly believe our bog standard estate have security provided in the evenings.
AIBU?
To think I live in a fucking parallel universe?
hungryhippo90 · 21/02/2018 14:40
That’s fucking batshit. Glad nobody round here carries on like that! 
I hope it's near me, I really want to go and wander about aimlessly looking shifty. 
People can be very strange. I'd probably be really bad at encouraging them in their madness and deliberately leave my bins out all night, move my car to various spots and go out at night in a balaclava. I'm not very good at being a serious adult!
Last new build estate I lived on there was a swingers club. 2 couples split when a dw ran off with another dh!! 
Sounds a bit like an estate near us. No parking in the road, no bins left out unless the bin lorry is in the vicinity, no For Sale signs displayed, porch lights must not be switched on before dark and MUST be turned off before 11pm... I'd be no good - I'd never remember it all
My road is a bit like this. It's hilariously batshit. They were talking about gating the whole road at the last residents meeting. 
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Uterus- I’m being serious, we live in the same estate! Not that I went to the meeting!!! We must live in the same estate.... B G mean anything to you? 
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