To think she is so bloody ungrateful!!

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And lives in a different world....
Someone I know got offered a gorgeous 3 bedroom house with a massive garden etc and all sje has done is whinge! She was given a £200 decorating grant but all she keeps saying is "Oh well its not like im getting any help, i mean i need help with carpets, i cant live like this im not having it!"


I pointed out that i lived witg one room done for 2 YEARS. Its gotten me irrationally angry! I think im going to get a flaming but meh, some people want everything handed to them on a plate.

I had a colleague once who had days off because her car was in the garage being fixed. Somebody said why didn't you get the bus or train. She never used public transport and had no idea of the times. Some folk!

MrsDeVere I love you. That is all.

MrsD of course people on MN would be perfectly content to find no carpets, they would be grateful to have any roof over their head don't you know?

Just as some of us should be grateful to be given a 'free' house and have it 'subsidised by the tax payer' I hope I didn't miss any HA/council house myths out there we should simply pay rent, never complain about anything and possibly grovel to our landlords every couple of days, thank anyone who looks like a taxpayer, and apologise to anyone who privately rents or owns their own home on a regular basis too.

A single parent is a parent who parents alone

All DCs have a father and a mother.

Don't follow your comments.

Good grief this is getting silly.

Everyone deserves somewhere safe and warm to live...but if you were renting somewhere that cost £1000 a week, you would be livinh somewhere better than if you were paying ten quid a week. Social housing tenants pay a fraction of the market price.

Can people really not see where i am coming from?

Yes, no carpets are just one of those things in ha or council properties. Never crossed my mind to be pissed off about it.

All DCs have a father and a mother.

And sometimes one of those sods off* and does not actually parent.

To parent- verb. To bring up children. Typical activities include feeding child, emotionally supporting child, reading stories with child.

*Sometimes this is involuntary, e.g. death. Widows and widowers with children are also forced to parent alone.

I am genuinely surprised. Maybe its because everyone here knows HA carpets are not provided so know what theyre getting when signing up....
I hope ive not offended anybody but wow seriously didnt expect it to go like this

Yes but its not hidden when you sign the tenancy and get offered the house, iyswim. Its the tenants responsibility here. I suppose if it was done ny the HA the rents would be higher.

£10 a week? Nice appeal to ridicule there. It was something over £50 a week for a one-bed years ago. (Which I paid with my wages.)

The over-inflated prices of the private market do not mean that the standards of council properties should have dropped as the market rose. It means that private tenants are being ripped off.

I think HA and council should bloody well put carpets in, when you rent privately you aren't expected to walk on bare floorboards.
And most tenants in social housing are working and GOSH! paying rent.
I honestly don't get why the HA's and the council can't put basic flooring in.
Apparently carpet and flooring are classed as decoration, even some lino would be better than floorboards.

Well exactly Beer, no one would rent a house/flat that had bare floorboards and even LLs who accept HB will have put basic flooring in.

Mine had freezing, filthy concrete as flooring.

I bought cheap carpet, and the colour rubbed off it in places!

Again, people know this before signing.

Concrete flooring, uncovered, fucking hell.

I have actually been to view private rented places with no carpets. The rent was really cheap. Some of the pp ive rented the carpets have been bloody awful, not to mention deposit and fees that need paying.

I would love to be back in ha or council, 3 moves in 3 years because LL decide to sell. No security at all