Would you live in a housing estate made only for middle class people?

[Melvinaa]

/afforded only by those with professional salaries?

I’ve always lived in areas where poor and rich live cheek by jowl. But I’m considering move to a housing estate which is designed/afforded only by professional people. So the overall demographics are going to be very middle class because rents range from £2000-£5000

They still might be twats though.

It sounds awful.

Don't believe everything you read on middle class people on here tell you .Their behaviour can still be bad . Lots of parties in gardens , drunk behaviour .Go out to leave their children have parties police turning up to shut them down .
Badly behaved animals . Kids home from schools , teens left to it while they are working all hours 🙄 .

Poundbury in Dorset springs to mind.

Our road is gated, our house is gated, as are the other houses in the road - there aren't many. Happily it's quite mixed. We have a gay couple, a couple of Muslim families, a couple of Hindu families, a couple of widows, etc. Everyone is lovely except one can go months without seeing anyone. One neighbour and I nod cheerily because we leave at the same time every day - we have never had a conversation. There is very little community. It is lonely.

Why can people afford to live here: drs, lawyers, accountants, etc.

That’s about professional class rather than social class. Anyone who has been born with brains and ambition can get a good job. But to get a fabulous mix of community you need law abiding citizens, all with an eye on the common good but an appreciation of inclusion and difference.

My community is somewhere that in the face of it you would not want to live. Poverty, depravation and urban unattractive surroundings. But we have musicians, historians, allotment folks, beekeepers, plantsmen, dog breeders, bands, caring volunteers, experts of all sorts of niche things - caravanning, rare orchids, curry cooking, tai chi, buying homes in various parts of the world etc. One very ordinary person I bumped into the other day has spent her life building a women’s refuge in some remote part of a third world country I’d never even heard of.

My point is that these are all ordinary working class folks that give a little back, but would be excluded by that snooty gated community. Their loss.

Q4 Do you intend to have hot tub?

Q5 Do you intend to have a fire pit?

Q6 Do you have children who make noise in summer?

I wouldn’t live on any sort of housing estate. I do, however, live in a village populated almost entirely by middle class professionals & middle class retired people. It’s not perfect, and competitive materialism is definitely an issue, but it’s still a very nice place to live.

For rented homes. Can't these people afford to buy.

Lawyers and professors in a rented estate. Where might this 'estate' be?

Wow, no. I live in a very middle class area, but that is ridiculous and I wouldn’t touch the place. If a friend moved in I’d ask if the rules say her kids have to move out at 21 if they haven’t qualified in a suitable profession ? That is just revolting snobbery and if you’d be comfortable there then you’d be a narrow minded bigot just like them.

I wouldn't particularly want to live in a housing estate, especially one where everyone was renting and there were no homeowners invested in the community. It sounds very odd.

I live in a small village, with 8 houses on our road, Jobs, as far as I can tell are:

Project Manager & Accountant
Private business owner x 2
Private business owner
Retired government librarian & her lodger
Retired doctor
One newly built house, not yet occupied (hoping for a sociable family)
One rented house,unknown occupants with a Volvo with Latvian number plates.

All friendly except the Latvians who are very mysterious. I'm a single mum with a medium job. If anyone looks down on me they have been far too polite to say, and seem happy enough to eat my mince pies and drink my fizz at Christmas.

When I bought the house I was too focused on getting ds onto a primary school list to worry whether my future neighbours were A,B,C1. 😁

Well, that's life.

It'll be a much better standard of living.

We'd all live that way if we could afford to.

Merseyside?

I wonder what the racial make- up is...

Don't really wonder, I can guess. Hoops are always designed for other reasons than just the stated.

Hard no from me.

Most people working in trades ie working classes jobs earn more than people in traditional middle class jobs ie nursing, teaching, junior civil servant roles.

Then don't live there and find somewhere else. Bit of a non question.

Have you met many doctors and dentists in London? A substantial proportion are non-white. So that theory falls down straight away.

No, wouldn’t bother me in the slightest.

Bless @Usernamen

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So a type of income restricted housing but for high income people?

Doesn't this already happen by default by what rent prices are charged?

I have lived in exclusive wealthy areas before and actually liked it.

If one wanted to filter by race in London, one would not use profession. Certainly not the traditional professions.

Plenty of areas are too expensive for most people to afford to live. Whether it happens by supply and demand or design, housing grouped by income is common.

For me it wouldn't matter about class or what money someone had it would be all about living with calm respectful neighbours with consideration for others . A collective pride in where we lived , no noise eg backfiring popping cars , etc

I like this. Some more suggestions for the questionnaire:

What paint do you intend to use throughout?
A Dulex
B Farrow & Ball
C Whatever’s cheapest

Where do you buy your furniture ?
A John Lewis
B Argos
C It’s mostly inherited

Sounds awful, I hate housing estates anyway as they are awful for people who can’t drive as developers never consider transport for actual residents so they are very isolating.

When it says professionals only, is that for both adults if couples or families rent? I couldn’t live somewhere with such an elitist attitude.