To think that this is a prime example of the entitlement from some people in this country?

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Someone on a large FB group that I am on posted yesterday to say that they want to move abroad and gave examples of a couple of countries that they want to go to.

They then said that they live in council housing here so would need to be 'housed' over there and how do they go about getting housed?

Basically they wanted to move abroad and get given that country's equivalent of a council house/social housing on arrival.

AIBU to think this is the absolute height of entitlement?

Its a trendy middle class thing, A bit Grazia

Sounds like a typical Facebook post 😂

Half of the local housing allowance? I find that hard to believe. LHA for a 2 bedroom in my area is around £570pm, my HA flat is £500pm.

Make up your mind. Your first and penultimate sentences totally contradict each other. The first is incorrect, incidentally.

Wow. I had no idea. I always assumed that council owned properties were more affordable than privately owned rentals.

Genuine question… then what is the benefit of having a council owned property then? Is it just down to security of having a home that you can’t get evicted from at the whim of a private landlord?

Nope, it strikes me as a lack of intellect if anything.

Yes.

Yes. Which isn't subsidisation, no matter how much you tie yourself in knots trying to it.

Some people have never paid rent or council tax. I've had someone tell me they've never paid council tax and are exempt as they're British. Trying to get them to understand it's because they've never worked a day in their life, not because they're British, was tricky.

If you are not working then yes. My area covers full rent.

And do they know what US social housing estates are like? "I grew up on a council estate" in the UK means "My parents were not wealthy and the surroundings were a bit grim". "I grew up in the projects" in the US means "I know several people who have been shot, some of them by the police".

I think you would have to be something very special and then the accommodation you obviously wouldn't need it. These countries want people who contribute not those who cannot. Have you tried to get a visa?

But many people do pay full rent
And also there are many people in private renters who have their rent paid by housing benefits these threads go round and round in circles, there is a lot of ignorance about social.hosing mainly from those who don't actually live in them.

I work on an advice helpline for older people. We had a young man enquire recently whether we could help him bring his elderly sick father over from india ( the old man had never lived or worked here), arrange for him to be admitted to a care home close by to him so he could visit and how could he get that all paid for. I was tempted to point out that as a country we can't even afford to pay for social care for our won elderly citizens. As other have said i think people have just got so used to everything being free that they get a bit carried away.

Well them the people you have encountered must be spectacularly ignorant but that doesn't mean it's the majority.

I'll send them to mine, if they want. LOL. They won't be given even a brick. Zero

I have read very similar on a FB posts. So no I'm not surprised.

Same for private rentals where the occupants don't work. It's not exclusive to social housing tenants.

Ask them if they plan to pop back to use the NHS too when they need HealthCare .

Not entitled, just dumb. Ah yes, rich nations the world over are opening their doors for the UK’s undereducated and economically inactive 😂

Do they know the council houses in the US are projects? Welfare here and welfare over there are two different things.

I had someone tell me the other day they thought they wouldn't have to pay council tax at all once they became a pensioner.

Exactly. And some feel they're entitled to judge people who are low income working class..like they deserve nothing. Sums this country up

Again its one comment from one person on a group
I live in social housing I read and consider my self quite educated ,I'm well aware I can't just decide to go to America and I wil be given social hosing ,I'm slsi aware its even harder ro get there than it is here
Yes there might he one ignorant person who can't comprehend its not a recpricol thing but I doubt there are many

It’s a way of subsiding mortgages by keeping interest rates low so that those that overstretched themselves didn’t lose their homes.

What a snobby post. You assume people who live in social housing are economically inactive? Guess my full time job is irrelevant then.