SunWukong
Define shitty?
what does that word mean to you?, poor?, filled with scroungers and immigrants?, full of ethnic shops?.
You may consider them "shitty" but I consider them home, full of people from all walks of life (well almost frankly if you look down at us and say our area is shitty and needs renovating then you can fuck off).
You used the word 'shit hole' to describe where you lived.
they may not be full of shops but the majority that are there are independent Halal butchers, green grocers, ethnic hair dressers corner shops etc.
And I thought my town centre was ghastly.
Who are you to call an area full of affordable housing shitty?
You called it shitty. You used the word 'shit hole'. Did you mean to use those words, because you taking umbrage at me for describing an area in the same terms that you did seems a touch unfair.
who are you to say that a Victorian 3 story house that once was split into flats housing many should be bought up on the cheap by a rich person who will hog the whole house to themselves?.
Who are you to say that a house should be split in to flats?
I love the idea that turning a group of flats which was once a house back in to a house is 'hogging' it.
All this redevelopment means is throwing out the poor and all the character and culture along with em, filing an area with less people who take up more space and turning the high streets into carbon copies of each other Starbucks, Costa, Pret etc. Demonisation and destruction of communities leads to rage and an ever increasing divide that will overflow into violence. (as it does in France)
Of course the violence couldn't be the fault of unlimited immigration and the insane policy of multiculturalism, could it? No, it's the fault of evil rich people in nice houses.