To think she is so bloody ungrateful!!

[hickorychicken]

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.

Gleeful?

People need to be housed OP, that doesn't mean that they should be forced to accept crap just because they don't have the same choices.
Hey, we could build us some camps to keep all the poor people in together, they usually have concrete floors too.

I put loads of newspapers down, because I couldn't afford underlay/good underlay! (Can't remember exactly which now. Just the price, the colours, and my rage when it rubbed off.)

It was about ungratefulness!! Nothing about finding the money (since she has sources and isnt short) im not gleeful im frustrated. This really has been taken out of context.

Not just ridiculous, it's mean and spiteful.
Nasty little council jobsworths who don't actually give a shit.

Why are perfectly good carpets removed, you leave your carpets if you sell or move from private rental, why should HA or council be any different.

A couple lived opposite my mother. One of them worked for a local, very posh, interiors shop. Their house was beautifully furnished and carpeted with really high quality carpets, off cuts I assume from their job. The house was pristine. The woman died suddenly and the husband soon moved out into a smaller place

The HA ripped out those beautiful carpets and skipped them. A young family moved in and are still living with bare floors. Their baby crawling on bare chipboard stuff

It's a bloody crime. Apparently it's routine to sweep everything away. Obviously if they are filthy or damaged they need to be got rid of but there was no kind of joined up thinking in that case.

What about a chance at a new start, a nice new home and security for the rest of her life, is that not something to be grateful for and then think of the decor later....?

I live in rental, we have been here for eight years, the stair carpet was replaced last year because it was worn in places.
I'm currently working on the agents for a new oven.

It's a double edged sword.

Got a council house in a state.

Got the grant.

Did it up. Carpeted it thanks to my mum.

Left it cleaner and in better condition than when I got it.

Got charged £600 for the pleasure.

Now I am homeless and trying to get a home, that money needs to be paid first.

I was grateful back then, not so much now.

How does one spell disingenuous?
Is that right? It never looks right to me...hmm...maybe there's another word that means the same and is easier to spell.....

Is that really substandard? Ive lived like that for 2 years and thought it par for the course....maybe i was wrong

Why are carpets considered a decoration if you are having to walk on concrete or shite boards in your bare feet.
FUCKING HELL.

Social housing tenants pay a fraction of the market price.

No they bloody don't. They pay a smaller percentage. Housing Association rents are charged at up to 80% of market rates. On average, 'affordable housing' rentals were 68% of market rates in 2012.

When I first moved in, I swept and hoovered the bare floor boards as much as every day. I was heavily pregnant with a toddler. Still got rat in through attic and it came down into the house.

That was the worst thing to wake up to in my life. I'd shut the thing into my room with me.

The council don't do pest control at the weekend. Mum had to pay for a private company. I had to move out for two weeks. Rat died in my clean washing pile on my bed. I had to clean it all up myself. High risk in pregnancy, waiting for care from social services.

Paper loved the story though. Council changed their weekend pest control policy.