To think I live in a fucking parallel universe?

[hungryhippo90]

I moved to a new build estate. I’ve never seen ANYTHING like it.

There’s a neighbourhood watch who put letters out on people’s cars if they’re parked in the estate. In fact a few cars got covered in tomato ketchup for being left here... not even specifically outside peoples houses. Some of the neighbours go out and moan at people parked anywhere near their house.

You get letters through the door if your bins aren’t in the back garden by 3pm the day they’re emptied (I don’t know what happens when you both work till 5pm!) there are a lot of moaning posts if it’s windy and bin day. One of the residents goes out and picks up litter, which is normal I guess but I’ve never seen it before.

There’s lots of moaning that there will be council accommodation on the estate and shock horror, the house prices!!

They currently have 3 different lawsuits ongoing with the housebuilder, the maintenance company who deals with the estates grass etc and I don’t even know who else.

One of the home owners asked the other day if the estate had security because they saw someone in a security outfit (there’s still buildingwork ongoing- there is security on that site nothing to do with the residents and FWIW it’s clear. This is answered by loads of ....maybe answers, and I start to think I don’t even live in this world. It’s clear we don’t have security! Who on earth would be paying for it? .....and one person pipes up with, ask to see their ID and their credentials (he wasn’t joking!)

Oh and there are pictures on the Facebook group - which you have to send your address to join by the way!) of every person they’ve ever seen walking through the estate.

Today someone posts a picture, someone posts a picture of two people, and one of them is out patrolling the estate for those not belonging here.

Please, please tell me I just live in a weird place and everywhere is not like this.

I find it beyond odc, a few of the other residents think it is beyond hilarious, and I used to laugh but it’s starting to bewilder me how grown ups who own houses, honestly believe our bog standard estate have security provided in the evenings.

I got kicked off the Facebook page for our estate by suggesting that the two 'suspicious' men that were photographed (they must have been late 70's, 80ish each) were more likely to be going for a walk (you can go the long way to a nature trail from the end of the estate) than scoping out houses to break into. Apparently combined with my refusal to join in estate walkarounds and for laughing at the suggestion that my children's friends meet them at the estate entrance rather than noisily (ie chatting or laughing) coming to my door show that I'm just not community spirited. I only do things that anyone could do like deal with the council when the street lights failed, take in every fucker's parcels and lead the campaign against the local school closing...

I think you might have moved to a new estate equivalent of Royston Vasey? xxx

Many years ago, a friends parents, who lived in Pinner (which will alert some as to how "posh" they were) retired to the country.

Theirs was a new build (they were still building the estate, and the paint was peeling ...). I went to visit and had my ear bent about how the locals were really up themselves. Apparently they had decided that they wanted a "no ball games" sign up on the village green (which my friends DF was opposed to anyway). The reason they didn't in the end is they couldn't decide on the exact wording.

They were also horribly racist, but that's another story.

Curious it's not thinking you can't be seen it's the publishing of the photographs and the question of what is the purpose of posting those photos? Surely they are sailing close to the wind if the implication is that the people in the photographs are criminals?

It still isn't illegal! Not even questionable if done without malice. You don't have automatic rights to your own image if pictured in a public place, only if it is used for commercial purposes.

It's stupid, and I am sure facebook would consider action if a few people reported it, but otherwise it is fine!

I had to look it up for our business club for the town facebook pages... businesses post pictures of alleged shoplifters all the time.

Ha on our street we are more talk to either side,nodding terms one or two houses down,ignore the rest 😁 Suits me fine never a truer saying than 'familiarity breeds contempt' We take our bins in whenever the hell we want

This is totally batshit. I've never lived on a new build so had no idea. Though now I think about it, I do remember hearing about wife swap rumours about the one in our village..

Oooh but I have remembered visiting my friend who lived on an estate. My car was parked in the road bit as her bay was filled. A man came out to check my tax disc matched my registration and presumably was so disappointed to find they did he decided to check my tyre tread as well with a 20p in the hope of catching me out that way.

hungryhippo90
just appreciate the tidy roads, the peace and quiet of the evenings and think about all the people who are driven mad by noisy parties. I would!

@Firesuit
I wouldn't want to live anywhere that had visible bins for more than a very few hours on bin collection day.

Why? How do other peoples bins affect you?

I wouldn't want to live anywhere that had visible bins for more than a very few hours on bin collection day.

Me neither! That's why I only live on roads where everyone is unemployed.

I've had a minor in comparison bit of drama with the neighbours at our house (we live in one half of a converted pub and the old outbuildings also converted to make a sort of enclave at the back. It stressed me out no end-I couldnt Iive where you live with all that going down OP...it would send me mental!

Caake- im gonna watch it but just so you know.... i will be watching the way i might die

Exfury- you evil neighbour you. unleashing kids talking and laughing on your community.... i will have this in a few years im sure.

Laiste- your mum could seriously live here!

im laughing at this, but seriously. its quite sad!

I wouldn't have thought that something like this really exists! How did they find each other?!

Surely everywhere has working people who therefore have to live with the bins being out all day?

I realised as I posted I was overlooking this tiny obstacle...

I don't know what's usual across the UK nowadays, or historically. I think historically bin collections were done in the early hours of the morning, say between 4am and 7am. So presumably you could put your bins out after dark, and if you got up early enough, put them away before daybreak.

If you were a slacker who didn't mind hurting your neighbours eyes, you could wait until you were actually leaving the house to put them away.

(The communal bins for my flat are collected before 8am, usually, I think. We have staff who put them out shortly before the bin men arrive.)

Does it begin with a b?

If so......yea........I've heard some stories that occasionally make me randomly start laughing if they pop into my head

Exfury- you evil neighbour you. unleashing kids talking and laughing on your community.... i will have this in a few years im sure.

It's terrible. Sometimes they even come and ring the bell when we're out. One of the watchmen suggested they don't do that. I may have been a little sarcastic when I pointed out that if they knew DD was out they probably wouldn't knock.

It's madness. 5 years being surrounded by building work (4 of the houses, including ours, have been here for years - the new houses were basically built around us) and now we've got people who seem to think they live in a potential crime haven rather than than a small town in the middle of nowhere!

lovesasign...... two words, one begins with a B, as does the town name?

We live in a tiny new build development and someone organised a Facebook page. Fortunately we have lovely neighbours, no vigilante behaviour and all have garages and driveways for cars. First new build and we wouldn’t swap it ~ guess we are lucky.

OP ~ your neighbours sound like the have a few screws loose, and the tomato sauce nut job needs arresting for criminal damage.

Exfury- these people live in their own worlds!! im sorry you are surrounded by such fools... whats a doorbell for if not to ring it?
just like my neighbour, thinking that there was security on the estate for us overnight.... like who pays for that? youd think they would know seeing as theyd have lived in their house 1-2 years +!!!

I don't get the whole bins thing. Our new build estate has tiny wee gardens and I relocated the bins to my parking space to make room. Some neighbour kept bring them in.
Forward 8 years ( same neighbors bar one house) and everyone now has them in the car park. Except me ironically. They are mostly disguised by cars of all shapes and sizes.
They just look like bins in a car park. I can't see why people have any issue with them.

I think you might have moved to a new estate equivalent of Royston Vasey? xxx

My thoughts exactly.

Do not open the door to any peg sellers looking for Dave, would be my advice.

tapandgo... if you dont mind me asking, who was your developer? sounds quite a rarety to have a really good finish on one... sorry being a bit of a geek.

You are lucky though! definitely agree re it being criminal damage! everyone swore they had no idea, but it was all cars that didnt "belong" if you follow.

will someone tell me what royston vasey is please?

Our estate has residents parking only now. Parking was never a problem. At the meeting I opposed it, saying that we are going to be asked to pay for something we currently enjoy free. Most people voted for it and now complain about the rising cost. There is never a warden to check so it is crazy. Two people in my street have got rid of their cars because they object to paying to park outside their own home. You have to have to buy a visitors permit too which is a total faff.

Bins look awful and it makes the whole area look cheap. Even if you don't have space to hide them, there are enough types of bin covers on the market to keep them out of view.