to be pissed off that someone thinks my house looks like a housing assosiation

[spottyoldzebra]

do you think that too?
its just like this house only 2 bedroomed

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-10852209.html?pageNumber=3&backToListURL=%2Fproperty- for-sale%2Ffind.html%3FlocationIdentifier%3DREGION%255E15148%26index%3D20&locationIdentifier=REGION^ 15148&radius=0.0

zebra - does anyone ever accuse you of not listening ?

because really you are NOT listening to anyone on this thread.

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So it does!

if some peple really want to make out people in benefits do not get judged on mumsnet they are clearly lying

I am old enough to remember record players...it was bloody annoying when the needle kept slipping...

the lights are on but Mrs Brain has buggered off to the Land of Dim....

Oh FFS.

So what if your house looks like a HA house? I wish mine did - they tend to be modern build and quite nice.

I grew up in a house that looked like a council house - does that mean that everyone assumed we lived on benefits?

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How can a HA house 'look' like any particular stereotype? HA houses are all over the place- new builds, ex council, or like ours, the only house on our road not to be privately owned, so who could tell?

I'm not ashamed to live in a HA house. Circumstances, which I am not prepared to divulge here, prevent us from doing anything else for the time being (although I have owned, and privatey rented in the past.)

However, we both work FT- well, I am doing my PGCE so I am studying or on placement FT and our joint income is not an insignificant amount. We could probably afford to pay a mortgage, but we aren't in a position to apply for one.

I resent the tone of the OP that implies there is something shameful about living in social housing, and that we are all living on benefits. I'm afraid this is just not true!

What is wrong with a housing association house?
Do they have large stickers on the window, denoting their status?

The house posted just looks like a modern built 3 bed semi?

A house is a house. For goodness sake, what is this post about?

juicy one

I am SO please to live in a HA flat and not be at the whims of a private landlord!

I don't get any benefits or subsidies in any way.

It's a bit like that old Monty Python sketch.

Who exactly are you trying to piss off spotty? Council/HA tenants, single mums, people on benefits? Have you nothing better to do?

OP certainly is busy trawling through those archives. Nothing on TV tonight?

funny how noone is really answering this?

so if i was upset that someone thought i was living on benefits when i wasn't that would be different would it?

funny how people on here are always telling others get get some pride and respect and get off benefits then isn't it?

so why is it so wrong that i should object to people thinking we are not paying our way?

{groan}

If i've heard it once......

Happy Christmas love.

YABU.

It just comes over as being out and out snobbery - same as one of the PTA school run mums telling me she was So glad her door was coloured - so at least it doesn't look like all the COUNCIL houses on her street....

A house is a house.

Get over yourself.

you are not making any sense. Are you drunk?

How is renting from a HA "not paying your way"?

'so why is it so wrong that i should object to people thinking we are not paying our way?'

This is just showing your ignorant thinking. You are the one claiming that those who live in HA houses aren't paying their way, or you wouldn't give two figs about someone thinking you live in one.

Pathetic.

because no one said that

funny how you are worried that people think you live in a HA house.
But not at all worried that you are unable to string a coherent thought together and are coming across as really foolish.

No it wouldn't be different because most people ( most sensible people) have no issue with those who need benefit support receiveing it.

If you trawl through the boards you will find homophobia and sexism and racism.
That does not mean that that is how the board as a whole feels.

It is an OPEN forum.
People can post any shite as you are ably illustrating . That does not mean it is a concensus view.

Are housing association houses the same as Council houses?

Well, our house is a ex council house...but tbh, it doesn't bother me what other people think....because, well, I know our situation , I know we are fortunate enough not to have to survive on Benfits, etc....but it doesn't bother me what others think....!
Spotty, do you like your house....(sorry haven't read much of this thread), if you do, really why care what others think.....