I have changed my name to this new one in recognition of the number of faces which will follow in the replies.
I am going to be completely unreasonable, I know I am and I don't care because I am hacked off at present.
I am unable to get a mortgage - in common with millions of others.
I am a lone parent - in common with millions of others.
I rent privately which costs me an arm and a leg every month - well over half my income.
I have now been assessed by the council for a council property. I am entitled to two bedrooms but am only entitled to an upper floor property according to the bumph they have just sent me.
WTF! An upper floor property. When half my bloody neighbours are in houses with gardens (for which they pay considerably less than I do) and don't do a days work - some have never done a days work in their lives. Yes it's the green eyed monster - that I will totally admit. No I wouldn't want their bloody lives - just their house. Why can't they have the upper floor flat? Nobody is disabled - they all seem to have enjoyed the nice weather (forget the last five days) judging by the beer cans which have littered the street when I have returned from yet another bloody stressful day at work.
I could stay in private rent BUT I then have to accept that on the whim of my landlords I could be homeless. Unless I have the deposit I cannot put a deposit down on anywhere new. As anyone who rents privately knows - you don't get the deposit until you are well out of the property and they've established it hasn't been wrecked. In the meantime I assume I'd be homeless.....
All I want is a secure tenancy in a house with a garden which I can enjoy. It doesn't have to be in the poshest part of town - Lord knows I do not live in a "nice" area now - am in the notorious estate avoided by the "naice" people. I'd like it at a rent that is not extortionate though.
Rant, rant, rantety rant.
Sorry - all very unreasonable I know. And as MN is so bloody PC I know I am now in for a right kicking. Off you go.......