What's up with the famous 1 bed flats in the UK

[Bathingforest]

I'm from a country where whole families in town live in 1 bed flat, the parents have the living room, the kids the bedroom.

Since when and why English people are so dismissive of such lifestyle...people work for their food, bills and clothing. What gives you a right to mock them.

I've seen it thrown around like a cliche, with rude attitude on top of this. The fact some people manage more than 1 bedroom doesn't prove anything really.

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People don't half post some weird shit on here

Not sure where this has come from but by law, such a set-up might be classed as overcrowding. https://england.shelter.org.uk/housing_advice/repairs/check_if_your_home_is_overcrowded_by_law

Ah, the cliche also adds simetimes: damp 1 bed flat. To tell you, I've seen 1000s of people either whole damp houses in the UK on the mould boards

The uk is a developed, relatively affluent country with a huge amount of 3 bed housing stock (outside london, 3 bed houses are the most common dwelling type in the UK. In London its 2 bed properties that are most common). Most people have grown up with the expectation that a family will live in a 2 or 3 bedroom property, with 2 kids either sharing a separate room to the parents or having their own bedroom each.

Where has anyone been mocking you?

Where do you live?

You want people in the UK to think it’s good and wonderful that some families are squashed into one bedroom properties? Why?

What's with the 'English people' nonsense? What gives you the right to assume that all English people think alike?

We have a few tenants from Poland who felt this was completely normal.

Aye

But boiled eggs are runny and that's the problem.

That sounds grim & like some sort of slum. I doubt many people are happy & healthy living in such overcrowded conditions.

That's not something we should aspire to or encourage in the UK.

You’ve hit the nail on the head with your first comment. ‘I’m from a country where….’

Quite frankly, I don’t give a rats arse what the people do in your country. Here in the U.K. we do things our way.

Imagine this in reverse! 🙄

Im a social worker. I actually agree with you on this OP. We do have this weird idea that children should have their own rooms - especially if they are a different sex. And you should have a house with a garden as the aspirational goal. I see people work their fingers to the bone, hardly seeing their kids, to reach this illusive goal. Im not sure its all its cracked up to be either. I think other cultures have a lot to teach us on this, but we won't listen. Sometimes less is more. Sometimes families connect better when they are all together more - they have communal spaces and shared bedrooms.

My brother lives in a huge mcmansion type house - his mid-teen kids rooms with ensuits are like their own apartments. They all barely see each other. My other brother was showing him his new newbuild home for his 3 teens and my wealthy brother admitted he was jealous and that he wished they just had a simplier smaller home so they all connected more and spent time together.

Sharing a small space is not poverty in my eyes. It can actually be very beautiful and connecting. I think british people are quite judgy of it though.

Don't you want to learn from other cultures? I think its important to keep an open mind.

Also my wealthy brother had the family live in a caravan whilst it was being built. It took 8 months. They all said it was the happiest time of their lives!

Im half australian and lived there for 18 years. People there would commonly take off for years with their kids nomading about doing the loop in caravans. (The loop is the figure 8 around the whole of Oz). One family had 5 kids. Its quite a common thing there and really connecting and awesome. Thats not poverty, and I think that is what the OP is illuding too. A family in a one bed flat who are happy whats the harm?

I think a lot of posters are just fed up of the English bashing on here.

Especially when they often mean the UK.

Oh and of course, they never say which country they're actually from whilst bashing this one.

Not really the best bashing when it consists of basically ‘You UK/English people are awful because you have higher standards than slum level housing for your families. Lower your standards UK/English people!’

I don't really know what you mean about Famous.

Many English people spend at least some part of their life in a one bedroom flat.

I suppose most people with families would find more room than a one bedroom flat desirable and more comfortable. I'm thinking of storage, drying washing, working from home, play space.

Most people in the UK don't live in mansions, they live in three bed semis and terraces. I guess they've adapted over generations to work for families.

It's one thing to travel around Australia in a caravan with your family - quite another drying the washing for a family of five in a one bed flat on a wet February Tuesday in Hull.

The OP hasn't mentioned the rest of the UK.

It's like England is the only country.

Agree

Racism with a touch of goadiness

It’s says UK in the title of the thread.

Still a rubbish attempt by OP at bashing though , even if only aimed at England/English people.

That’s poverty here.

Not looked down on but not an aspiration in the UK.

The differentiating factor is the weather. In warm countries your house is where you sleep, but outside is where you live. Chairs in streets, playing on the pavement or in the park and so on.