To hate living on a council estate?

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We bought a house a few years ago on a council estate where my PIL also live. DH and I thought it would be good to be close to them for the future.

Ive been ok here for a while now but since the last 5 years or so, it has really gone downhill.

Main problems are
People dump sofas, furniture, bags of rubbish, boxes and just anything really on an almost daily basis. There is a child safety gate at the front of my house as I type this.

Nowhere to park. We live very close to an educational establishment and students and staff just park outside and on the roads on the side of our homes. It looks like a bloody car park every morning.

Litter

We have tried to make our home as lovely as we can but as soon as I step outside or look outside of the window, it just looks crap.

The litter and tipping is so bad, that I actually feel a tinge of embarrassment when calling people to my home.

The shame is that all the neighbours are actually quite nice people. It's people who dont live there, that are causing the problems!

Does anyone else living on a council estate? And is it as bad as mine?

Dezza where are you? Im in Liverpool. Seen a few people on the beloved facey but never in my street has he come!!

I'm in Leeds.

Never heard of this at all. Neither have friends. I text mum and she said it's never happened here. Guess depends on the councils. This one is shit, they threaten to kick you out for not cutting your grass but do up the house after £5000 worth of damage has been done for when the junkie gets out of prison

For 6 years I lived in an 11th floor ex-local flat in a tower block on the edge of an estate with a bad reputation for crime. The drug deals in the corridors and homeless sheltering in the stairways didn't really affect me. I took the approach that if I kept my nose out of their business they wouldn't bother with me and it seemed to work.

But by the time I left I was so fed up of the piss in the lifts, deliberate blobs of rancid spit on the lift buttons and sharing the lifts with 'status' dogs who scared the hell out of me, it was a relief to leave.

For the most part everyone I spoke to in the block seemed nice people so I was a bit baffled by who it was making the lifts so skanky.

Now I live on an estate on a culdesac opposite the only 4 remaining housing association houses. I love my estate. All my neighbours are great and everyone's kids play out together and are polite and friendly.

Estates can have very different personalities. At the moment I've drawn the lucky straw!

It's not to do with the Council, it's the Community, Dezza. Councils don't bestow Father Christmas favours for the lulz.

Aw it must be to do with the councils, Timley your lucky me an the kids would be made up if it came in the street. Dezza your road sounds like mine, strange thing is iv had more problems with odd neighbours than i have with "junkies".

The santas are organised my charities, nowt to do with the council.

By not my.

Leopardinabobblehat..Not one person said private landlords are to blame!! Are you a private landlord or something.

I hate the estate we are on.

we have just had hundreds of thousands spent on doing the area up.

When the plant flower beds the flowers are stolen or destroyed.

The new shopping centre the are building gets windows smashed at the night time. The night security guard got beaten up.

Houses are starting to be robbed in the run up to Christmas.

My DGM windows gets egged around once a month.

There is furniture dumped out on street.

The local park gets set on fire all the time

I hate it and as soon as we can afford to move we will, i grew up here. Its awful now

Well I apologise for thinking it was the council. Just a question.

I live on a massive council estate. I love it here. It is honestly the happiest place I have ever lived. There is quite a lot of rubbish and unkept houses and gardens and there is blatantly all sorts going on but i and many others are not involved in any of that and it kind of just goes on without disturbing anyone.

My neighbours are some of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet I am very lucky. We all say hello and chat up and down my street and I feel really safe living here.

There is a real community feel on my estate.

My neighbours are fab.

The neighbours have only got together to try get the junkies out. Not worked either due to her mum working high up in housing.

Apart from that I only speak to a few.

But wait a minute... the OP said this:

The shame is that all the neighbours are actually quite nice people. It's people who dont live there, that are causing the problems!

It's not the people who live there..... the OP's problem isn't the council estate at all. It's the students and staff from the nearby "educational establishment" and neighbours in the surrounding area!!

So... problems with students and staff parking and littering? Talk to the school about it, make them aware of it.

But you made it clear the actual problem is NOT the council estate. Interesting how you place the blame on the estate though, even though that's not what you're highlighting as the problem.