This has made me laugh. I used to live in a very pleasant suburb, quite affluent. But slowly immigrants started settling there. At first it was - oh this is a nice cultural mix, everyone welcome. Then you started feeling a little uncomfortable when rather than going to the play area and chatting to other mums, all of a sudden you noticed many of the mums speaking a foreign language between themselves and having no interest in speaking with you, the kids not mixing with the white kids. Then you start noticing this more in the schools. All of a sudden there’s a lot of time spent in the school with kids whose first language is not English.
You notice that a lot of the drivers are very erratic and dangerous, quite a few people start getting hit by cars. The shops which had done well close down and are replaced by ethnic shops, pubs close and up spring numerous dessert places.
You get a letter home from school sailing back PE because of Ramadan. Your kids school wants to start serving halal meat.
All those community events which ran for years, the carnival, remembrance parade etc get cancelled because large numbers of residents don’t have any interest in typically British traditions.
Your new neighbours buying houses off the long term residents who are leaving the area in ever increasing numbers don’t mix with you, as the only mix in their community.
Your kid starts secondary, half the kids can’t get into the same school when they would easily have done so previously because of all the immigrant children, often in large families get the places. The children your child has previously been friends with since age 4 are bussed all over. You child gets really upset, many of the kids in his new school won’t mix with kids outside their community.
you feel isolated and a stranger in your own town, you feel forced out. Crime shoots up, white kids are targeted in the local park. Yet if you say it was and Asian kid with a knife threatening your child with a knife people are more concerned with calling you racist than the fact your. Hold could have been stabbed.
Eventually you feel so stressed and isolated living there you pull your kid out of school. You have lost your attitude of “oh isn’t in nice to live in this mixture of cultures, let’s be welcoming” to “Jesus I’m not going through that again l” you look up the demographics of various areas and you’re veryvrelived it says 99.1% white British born.
The day you move your 1 remaining long standing neighbour cries saying they will feel so isolated now, no neighbours talk anymore.
But go ahead, encourage the immigrants into your area. You’ll soon regret it and turn out like the rest of us who have been through it. My area was nice, it wasn’t some inner city slum. It had many outstanding schools (why it was targeted). Look forward to hearing from you then.