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Seabag Wrote:

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> Louisa's silly matter, is a whole load of other

> guff

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Here we go, new year, same old Louisa bashing. I will defend my right to reserve a space when needed once in a while. I pay to use the roads, and I'm going to bloomin well use them!


Louisa.

Louisa Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> > Louisa's silly matter, is a whole load of other

> > guff

> >

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> Here we go, new year, same old Louisa bashing. I

> will defend my right to reserve a space when

> needed once in a while. I pay to use the roads,

> and I'm going to bloomin well use them!

>

> Louisa.



I agree with you "once in a while, when needed" is totally acceptable


Any other grandiose ideas, about a space to park your car outside your house, are just plain silly


And 'Louisa bashing' is a bit rich, given your form


HNY to you

Louisa Wrote:

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> Fox we are fighting a losing battle it seems. The

> yummies hipsters and blow ins have got our old

> school ED numbers and they're hunting us down

> until we are made extinct.

>

> Louisa.


I think you may have inadvertently put your finger on it there, though - why do you feel you are at war with anyone who has come to live here since birth? It seems to echo the immigration debate but I don't get the impression that the incomers want to do anything except integrate and enjoy living here and contributing to the area. This isn't intended as a criticism (though your posts do make me laugh sometimes) - I'm genuinely interested.

Just thinking aloud here, but what happens if you move here then have children - do they count as local if they've lived here all their lives and been to school here? Does that change if it's a fee-paying school? And then does that change if they got a scholarship or a bursary? What if they moved here to do a key worker job - a teacher or a doctor, say? Or how about if they moved here as the demographic of the area changed to set up a local business which has created some jobs? Interesting.

Hold on a minute ?

Integrating with what ?!


This isn't Lacock, some national heritage village where everyone has to oblige as if they're still living in 1640.

It's a formerly run-down suburb that, by a stroke of luck, has had a steady influx of people with ideas and motivation to add their little bits to the area, bringing it into the current decade rather than three decades out of date - you can take it or leave it but it's just plain churlish to wax cynical over it.

Been here since 1990. Bought because it was the cheapest place I could afford the largest house I could envisage ever needing, have enjoyed every stage of change, I miss some things and welcome some new things.

If it became such a bain I'd move away - God knows we've made enough equity to now have the CHOICE, so what's the issue ?!!!!!!


Buy a 3 bed terrace in Ventnor for ?200K and experience the same shite shops, shite food, shite high st with almost zero rate of change that ED had 25 years ago !!

I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but to me the subtext of the argument seems to be about perceptions of class. The development of the area just seems to be the context.


That itself is interesting as for much of the 20th Century - like many of the suburbs - ED seems to have developed to give clerks and lower managers access to the City. From the comments I heard from the older generation when I moved here, that was in fact the real stigma - nothing being as irredeemably beyond the pale as the lower middle class back then.

RPC unfortunately, certain posters know how to press my buttons. Yesterday Seabag pressed those buttons on more than one occasion on a few threads, and I foolishly fell into the response trap and it oddly turned into a class battle for no reason. Then posters today see oh here we go again Louisa is banging on about class, actually, no I wasn't, others brought it up and I simply continued the conversation. I have no need to turn everything back to class. I mean for god sakes what does a reserved parking space have to do with a persons social class?


Louisa.

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