What was the demographic of your childhood street?

[morqthana]

All happy and BRITISH through and through!!

Still is.

 

[morqthana]

No, I’m English not British, well both I suppose.

You can be the latter without being the former. But not vice-versa.

 

[Highway Man]

There seemed to be more old people cleaning steps gardens etc, doesn't happen as much now....does it?

I still have old people cleaning my drive and doing my garden.

 

[Highway Man]

You can be the latter without being the former. But not vice-versa.

That makes no sense, I think you had better correct that before you get reported

 

[ReganAndCarter]

I now live in a house on the road where I spent my formative years. Won't say 'grew up', because growing up is boring. Anyway, back then it was all caucasian. Pretty much the same now, mercifully it's virtually untouched by the 'benefits' of diversiddy. Though there are a few Spaniards living in three properties nearby, next door to each other. They're fine, no problem. In fact a lot more respectful and considerate that some of the whites that lived there before them. I'm very lucky to live in an area that hasn't really been troubled too much by multiculturism. Just think what we're missing out on. Wander down to one of the local pubs for a few pints of an evening and it's like the waves of swarthies never happened.

Odd thing is, in the 70s all the young families lived in the houses here and the old folks lived in the flats. These days the older ones live in the houses on the own or as a couple and the families are now squeezed into the flats.

 

[morqthana]

That makes no sense, I think you had better correct that before you get reported

I don't need to "correct" it for it to make sense.

No, I’m English not British, well both I suppose.

You can be the latter (British) without being the former (English).

You can't be the former without being the latter.

 

[Justin Passing]

I thought someone was saying you couldn't be British and happy, which is so obvious it's not worth saying.

I was vaguely aware of two other families in my street.
My mother had fallen out with their mothers though, so I wasn't allowed to speak to them.
People don't "fall out" so much these days - too much effort.

 

[Koolpc]

Still is.

Far from....

 

[King Billy]

I'm very lucky to live in an area that hasn't really been troubled too much by multiculturism. Just think what we're missing out on. Wander down to one of the local pubs for a few pints of an evening and it's like the waves of swarthies never happened.

Then why your obvious and intense hatred for this imaginary group?
Are you afraid of ghosts?

 

[King Billy]

I don't need to "correct" it for it to make sense.



You can be the latter (British) without being the former (English).

You can't be the former without being the latter.

'Tis a sad world when it's necessary to explain perfect bona fides sentences, to illustrate their eligibility, to people who claim to be educated.

 

[King Billy]

Far from....

Taken over by people who think they're dogs, messing up the pavements?

 

[Koolpc]

Taken over by people who think they're dogs, messing up the pavements?

Woooof!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I now live in a house on the road where I spent my formative years. Won't say 'grew up', because growing up is boring. Anyway, back then it was all caucasian. Pretty much the same now, mercifully it's virtually untouched by the 'benefits' of diversiddy. Though there are a few Spaniards living in three properties nearby, next door to each other. They're fine, no problem. In fact a lot more respectful and considerate that some of the whites that lived there before them. I'm very lucky to live in an area that hasn't really been troubled too much by multiculturism. Just think what we're missing out on. Wander down to one of the local pubs for a few pints of an evening and it's like the waves of swarthies never happened.

Where I live now, is far from the area I grew up, where I grew up was demolished decades ago - and no great loss. The overgrown village where I now live, has no 'swarthies', that I am aware of, and is designated a very low crime area. At the end of the street, used to be a general shop, run by I think a very nice Taiwanese couple, but it never did much business, and few years ago, they got the builders in, to convert the shop, back to a house. Most of the houses, are occupied by families, many have had large sums spent on them, to extend them, because the large plots they are built on, when land was cheap, lend themselves so easily to extensions.