Area gone to shit, feel forced to move 😪

This is true. There have been news reports this week of canvassers going door to door and asking people living there if they have allegiance to Israel.
We may not be living in Nazi Germany (yet) but DP and I have been discussing this issue today. He and I are part of the last living generation who know about the 1930s from our own parents lived experience. Terrified is not too strong a description.

Totally agree. There is a certain tone to these comments, and it's very obvious.

Is there an article? That video just shows someone assaulting a Palestine supporter.

We’ve had similar problems over the past five years. Previously smart streets have been converted to HMOs, and they now look dirty and scruffy, hundreds of wheelie bins all overflowing. There’s a lot of antisocial behaviour, and the long-standing locals are shipping out. But in our case, it’s university students that are causing the problems not foreigners.

Nobody has taken my name or knocked on my door to discuss the topic of Jewishness.

I only found out one of my best friends was Jewish after I'd flown to L.A. for her wedding and she told me some of her family wouldn't attend because it was Rosh Hashanna (sp?)

It wouldn't occur to me to be anti-Semitic. Nobody has ever suggested it to me as an ideology.

How on earth do you know for a fact that 'so few BAME people post'?

Doesn't anyone else think this environmental change is to do with growing inequalities? The rich are getting richer - have you not noticed the cheaply built new blocks of flats are for rent tather than sale? The super-rich (these blocks are often owned by bans and financial services companies) exploiting those unable to afford to buy. The rise in take-aways - the low paid are working two jobs and have no time to shop or cook. Immigrants are a scape-goat. The wealthy Reform members and sponsors are making you poorer and more desperate by fleecing you.

I doubt that they are co ordinated threads. But as soon as I read your post I guessed who had written it!
How in earth do you know from posters names whether they are Asian or not 🤔

I agree. I notice things like less bins and less street cleaning too. Fly
tips everywhere and they aren’t cleared quickly. Abandoned vehicles too.

Not stereotyping, here is what OP said:

We're overrun with food delivery bike riders (many of whom live in the HMOS) who congregate in the high street, leering at women & young girls

To add the area used to be good. Now ... landlord that does MO n council have destroyed it.

Sadly OP if the area is as objectively horrendous as you say, you’ll be unlikely to find a buyer anyway.

My dh and I always say we can not keep out running bad beighbours. They seem to be everywhere! We have had no peace with neighbours for years. Its sad. We have a multiple occupancy in the flat beneath us( we own a maisonette) We have dope smoker council tenants stinking the place up at either side. We can not use the garden space we own as they have a horrible wild dog. We are not in a position to move and fear moving into maybe even worse... we do not have a high income and I am a carer for both our dc so at home most of the time. So we have had to accept our lot, but as 1st time buyers we feel quite frustated.

at the same time, some areas that were absolutely hideous have became very fashionable and attractive.

Mixed heritage here. And outside London. YANBU. It isn't a race issue or a multicultural issue per se. It is an HMO issue though. We are seeing perfectly lovely areas turning into over crowded, densely populated areas with everything that comes with increased human activity and none of the infrastructure to manage it. Houses meant for 3 or 4 people with up to 10 in there generate more rubbish, people hang outside because there is no privacy or places to sit inside. Takeaways pop up as kitchen space is limited and so on. Add into that, the increased likelihood of HMO properties attracting men with no families, then the feel of an area is bound to change. I have had friends move into leafy, smart brand new housing estates have to move within 5 years as every house around them turned into illegal HMOs with no parking, noise late at night and rubbish everywhere. It was like living on a student campus with no grounds staff clearing up after late night drink the bar dry...

Duplicate

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5491232-to-be-shocked-that-this-is-happening-in-the-uk-in-2026

This is the MN equivalent of this

"Why fake AI videos of UK urban decline are taking over social media"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g8r23yv71o

Yeah. Good enough to bring you a pizza but not good enough to live within any commutable distance to whiteville suburbia.

Wow, stereotyping much?

You sound like half the population when my Dad moved here from Ireland.

They'd assume he'd spent all day tarmacing drives, rather than arranging mortgages in the bank he worked in.

If you don’t like the area any more, perhaps potential buyers would be of the same opinion. Buying and selling houses isn’t easy just now.

Yep, whilst he provides Deliveroo meals in the rain to white people who have contempt for him.

Heaven forbid that a single foreign man needs a home eh.