to be pissed off at my friend who is a council tenant

[judgejudithjudy]

Friends boiler broke down & was fixed for free within 4 days. When mine broke down, I had to apply for a loan to get it fixed & took 4 weeks.

All she's done is moan on Fb it's taken too long.

Felt like adding get a job & try paying for it yourself & then you'd have something to moan about!

Still paying off the sodding loan - how I wish I had a council house ??

Feminine when did I say that? I said:
"I think it's true she has every right to live in a decent place, she does pay rent to the council"
How is that me saying she deserves substandard accommodation? I said she rents from the council... she pays them her hard earned money and therefore does deserve good accommodation.
What I am also saying is that her rent is lower than any private tenant would pay, and she is fortunate to have this. It frees up more money for her to spend on herself and children. She therefore should feel an element of gratitude, and should perhaps consider this when venting regularly on social media.

Why is it your friend's fault that you haven't got the gumption to have boiler insurance?

You are badly organised and apparently jealous that your friend doesn't have to suffer similarly.

Here in the so called prosperous SE it takes on average 10 months to house people in Band A ie those in desperate housing need. Our local council workers are trying their best but guess what, half of them are going to be made redundant because of the cuts.

I see it in real life all the time, From the other Mothers at my DD's school.

This is a small and quite sought after village with only maybe 25 council or HA homes, It's hardly a rough estate (like where I grew up) but I still get the nasty comments.

Eatshit
No I didn't say she can't moan if something breaks. A boiler is completely different to moaning that your brand new kitchen is taking too long to be fitted. And yes someone who is getting a new kitchen fitted practically for free does have less right to complain than someone who has saved for years to afford it. Using limbs as an example is frankly completely ridiculous.
And tbh as much as it irritates me when she posts these things, I simply block her from my newsfeed, problem solved

I see the OP has vanished.

I'm lucky in that my husband does work, but we really do live week to week, some weeks once all of the bills are paid there is nothing left, so thank god we do have the council to fix our things when we need it.

I hope you find something soon Derek, it's not easy when you are a single parent and you want to work.

EatShit
And that is your opinion with your own example. The example I speak of is ONE person I know. She had a usable kitchen replaced. She got to pick the cabinets, worktops etc and they took an excruciating 3 days to fit it. Yes she is free to complain if she wishes, and I am free to find it annoying. I am also free to disagree with you and quite frankly you don't need to use such foul language to make your point

Note to self.

GOADY FUCKERS.

IGNORE.
IGNORE.
IGNORE.

OP you forgot to name change back after the last post as nurse

EatShit
I would imagine it vastly depends on the council. I have also been told it is incredibly hard to move when in a council place. This person has lived in 5 different council houses due to complaining about neighbours. Despite only being 30 years old. I suspect she is very very good at complaining.

People don't understand council or association tenancies properly. You don't have to be unemployed, you can be working and/or claiming no benefits at all - imagine!

And on that note. Our HA rent has increased dramatically since we moved in, it is now at their targeted level of 80% of private rentals in the local area.

Which would be fine except the private rents in the area where I live are very expensive, however the immediate development where I live is a completely different kettle of fish. Vandalism, noisy neighbours, neglect of properties etc. When we moved in we had to spend a fortune just to bring it up to a standard children could live in. The garden was waist high, bare floorboards with holes in, crumbling walls with about five layers of vintage wallpaper on.

The one thing I am extremely grateful for is security of tenure so it seems ungrateful to complain, yet we are paying 80% of inflated rental levels (due to lack of supply in this expensive area) which makes it an exorbitant rent and the accommodation isn't equivalent in any way to private rentals.

Council or association housing isn't the same as it used to be. I am very relieved we and the DC aren't always just two months away from having to move, as we were in the private sector, but it seems madness that the rentals are targeted at a certain percentage level as though our accommodation is equivalent to private properties. And of course, this has to be topped up by housing benefit for a lot of people as even if they're working, wages are so low and rents so high. At least here, benefits go to an association and not paying off a private landlords mortgage I suppose.

Amd before anyone asks, DH works although I am disabled, and I have certainly paid a full whack of taxes over the years. None of which I begrudge though, as I believe very strongly in a welfare state providing excellent education, healthcare etc for all.

I just wish though everyone, particularly families, had a secure roof over their head, and I get angry about the fact they don't. I can't find it in me to begrudge anyone a secure roof, it seems very sad that people do. A race to the bottom rather than wishing to improve everyone's' circumsantances.

My life's shit so theirs should be even more shit, isn't really a nice ethos to have.

asjudge

Friends boiler broke down & was fixed for free within 4 days. When mine broke down, I had to apply for a loan to get it fixed & took 4 weeks.

All she's done is moan on Fb it's taken too long.

How is it a tantrum? I said its annoying. Yes I would imagine people moaning about jobs is annoying to someone struggling to find one also. I didn't say she can't moan. I said it's annoying. You are completely over analysing

Fuck me, how is it "free" when people are paying fucking rent?!

Truth be told it's probably more HER i find annoying than anything else, which is why I no longer read her posts, easy solution