Car parking outside my house

[Robert Poste's Child]

Surely you should get double points for two in a row, AM?

[Seabag]

Sorry tallulah71, but the 'dropped-curb-driveway-parking-space' is a whole different thread

And parts of that I can sympathise with you on

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

Happy New Year

[Louisa]

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.

[DulwichFox]

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

Louisa.

Keeps the Hounds off of my back ;-)

Foxy

[Louisa]

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.

[Seabag]

Louisa Wrote:

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

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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!

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> 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

[Robert Poste's Child]

(Deleted as system somehow posted twice, sorry.)

[Robert Poste's Child]

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.

[Zebedee Tring]

I think that Louisa and DF would regard me as an incomer since I've only lived in ED since 1987.

And if I were a hipster (which I'm not since my beard is too short), I would be the oldest hipster in town.

[DulwichFox]

RPC I have no objection to ANYONE moving to ED. and integrating.

I do object to people who come here and want to change everything but my Curtains.

Or even my Curtains..

DF

[Robert Poste's Child]

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.

[Seabag]

It's gettng more like evolution vs creationism

Thankfully, evolution wins out

[Alan Medic]

I don't understand who these people are who would move here and want to change everything. Why would they move here in the first place if they thought everything needed to be changed?

[healey]

"I will defend my right to reserve a space when needed once in a while."

You have no such right. Why is this so hard to comprehend?

"I pay to use the roads..."

You aren't the only taxpayer in ED, you know.

[KidKruger]

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 !!

[Robert Poste's Child]

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.

[KidKruger]

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[Louisa]

Why does everything come back to class with you lot! Thought we were talking about reserved parking spaces.

Louisa.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Nice attempt at deflection Louisa, but to put it more clearly, my point was that what seems to be behind a lot of your critical comments is plain old class prejudice.

[Louisa]

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.

[Robert Poste's Child]

Indeed.

[Zebedee Tring]

Pressing your buttons? Wouldn't that constitute sexual harassment?