to be very happy with my new COUNCIL FLAT?

[OMFFG]

I actually am and I can't quite believe it! It is a pita to bring shopping up the 2 flights of stairs but that is something we will get used to. I keep forgetting when I nip to the supermarket with toddler DC4, to only pick up a few things and end up with 5 bags of stuff and then I remember I have to get up the stairs with him and them!!

Apart from that, the flat is easy to keep clean (all on one level), we have 2 brand new balconies big enough to sit out on and grow some stuff on. The whole block's exterior has also been painted. We have a shared garden which the other 2 flats don't use so they have said they are fine with our trampoline being put up. The neighbours seem quiet, only hear them close their doors really. There are always spaces right outside the entrance door for our 2 cars and it is bloody cheap - £378 per month! We have not seem the benefit of that this month as we had to buy quite a bit of stuff - new cooker, curtains and rugs which came to over £600 but from next month we should be much better off. The area is actually a more 'sought after' part of town so we have been told and is much greener and there is a park/cycle track right next door, much better than the area we were living in and paying £900 for a mouldy house in.

I have also discovered that we are walking distance from the train station (about 15 mins) so I can return to work in London when I find a job and childcare and feeling positive about that) without having to pay out extra for petrol to station and car park fees which are extortionate here.

Oh we were also given a free paint pack from the council, could choose our colour scheme and it included enough for the whole place (3 beds) even down to gloss for skirting boards, masking tape and dust sheet. Over £200 pounds worth. There was laminate down already throughout the whole flat so the only flooring we had to put down was in the loo and bathroom.

I cannot believe that I feel rather happy and secure here. DCs are fine with it and it's closer to their schools. Total transformation in my way of thinking because I was terrified before we actually moved in. It actually sort of feels like we are in a holiday apartment. AIBU to extremely grateful to my local council who I had thought were fucking bastards!?

Tea nope I've checked and they recalculated due to it being near to the end of the tax year. Same payment next week. Off to spend it now - sorry again.

Am pleased that the OP has a decent place to live - everyone deserves that. BUT - if I came on here and started a thread about how I love living in my privately owned house and about how much extra money I had each month to spend, and how I had plenty of room for my trampoline and had just spent a load of £ decorating there'd be [biscuits] and and general flaminess all round.

instead of [biscuits] of course..

And the point of this post is???

Why would you be flamed. Surely people are happy for one another when things work out?

Yawn

It sounds Brilliant! I'm very happy for you :) And jealous as all get-out

My life is brilliant
my flat is cool..

God that James Blunt is a cunt.

My life's a bit crap.
I make an effort to focus on the positive, otherwise I might have to kill myself.

Agree with you about James Blunt.

Wasn't this exact same post made a couple of weeks ago?

Oh, x posts with just about everyone else on the thread, I see.

Dont forget the mention that your DH also had a payrise this month

Given you have just three threads simply about a council flat that was a pit of dispair in one thread and a palace in another - perhaps you need another hobby

I've missed the point here, haven't I?

Struggling to keep up with thread but am I correct that James Blunt is helping with the painting

for the shopping, get a large rucksack. you can carry a lot of heavy shopping in a rucksack whilst having your hands free to carry children/buggies.

also another trick is to leave some of it in the boot of the car whilst you take the other stuff up.

you could also get a carrier to pop dc in and then carry shopping up from the car.

you are right, you do get used to it.

I think James Blunt is helping the OP type.

His painting skills are rubbish, he drips everywhere .

Pffft soverylucky is that all?

When I switched the taps on in my council flat, actual diamonds and gold came out instead of water. And the wallpaper was made up of plasma televisions all with premium sky package. And Aggie and Kim came round every day to tidy up.

blimey - you lot are so underpriviliged, when I lived in a cahnsal flat, we had a jacuzzi bath in three ensuites and people to turn them on for us. And the benefits people (cos obviously we were on benefits, like) realised they hadn't paid us enough and personally bought round a big cheque so we could have a nolidee in the costas. The trampoline had its own room too. I fees sorry for the OP, she really is suffering

Ooooh make it into a mini series for FX maybe?

We can have a cliffhanger at the end of every episode, I propose for episode 1 the cliffhanger is the DCs with a face as the trampoline is picked up by Keith from the nearby estate who saw it on Freecycle.

Episode 2 can start off with you having to walk past it watching as Keiths kids bounce up and down, with a face and a sigh, you carry on walking, only to see a new family moving into your previous home.

Cliffhanger at the end of episode 2 will be you, DH and the kids just stood at the entrance to your new flat, and the camera pans across to a lonely syringe, with a Staffy guarding it. More faces.

BUT ITS OK, at the start of episode 3 we see that the syringe merely dropped out of a diabetics Luis Vuitton (natch) on their way to the station to catch the train to Harrods, and the Staffy was actually standing guard to make sure no-one touched it, thus dispelling the rumour that they are Devil Dogs.

End of series 1 sees you decorating your flat, and finding a genuine Monet hidden behind the flock wallpaper.........