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Some people seem to think they own or have more rights in an area just because thats where they have lived for ages.........they don't
If you have bought a property you have as much right to be there as anyone else end of
Time to stop this narrow ignorant thinking
If you have bought a property you have as much right to be there as anyone else end of
Time to stop this narrow ignorant thinking
Give it 40 years and a couple of intermarriages with the locals and you'll stop being foreigners ...
... and have ascended to the level of 'incomers'
You won't be local until there are five generations of you in the churchyard.
"Them's incomers thems are, thems came 'ere dooring the Warrrrr"
... and have ascended to the level of 'incomers'
You won't be local until there are five generations of you in the churchyard.
"Them's incomers thems are, thems came 'ere dooring the Warrrrr"
Around 20 yrs ago, I moved to a small village in North Derbyshire. We were labelled outsiders for the 3 years that we lived there. The local club (miners welfare club) was quite strange. First few times we went there, almost everywhere we sat, we were told "Tha can't sit there youth,Ow'd Jack'll be in in a bit, He allus sits there."
It was like musical chairs. I even stood at the bar one night only to be reminded that Ow'd Bert allus stands in that spot.
Only when I started playing for the darts team, did anything approaching some sort of acceptance, happen.
Same happened to me. Went to a new club got a lot of grief until I started playing darts for them. Got whitewashed by the womens team so looking for a new club. Its so hard to fit in!
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thatbloke
Its our only home guys, I wish we could afford a holiday home. We really arnt rich or even well off. We have nearly lost the cottage more than once due to financial difficulty's , restoring an old cottage and having a baby at the same time isnt easy.
I think the problem with a few people round here is they dont get out much, even people from the next village up could be classed as foreign. I'd say jealousy will play a big part in some people opinions of us as well. Apparently this old girl rents her house, which is really massive, I mean its got to be a five bedroomed house at least so I dont see why she should be jealous of our wee place.
I think the problem with a few people round here is they dont get out much, even people from the next village up could be classed as foreign. I'd say jealousy will play a big part in some people opinions of us as well. Apparently this old girl rents her house, which is really massive, I mean its got to be a five bedroomed house at least so I dont see why she should be jealous of our wee place.
Around 20 yrs ago, I moved to a small village in North Derbyshire. We were labelled outsiders for the 3 years that we lived there. The local club (miners welfare club) was quite strange. First few times we went there, almost everywhere we sat, we were told "Tha can't sit there youth,Ow'd Jack'll be in in a bit, He allus sits there."
It was like musical chairs. I even stood at the bar one night only to be reminded that Ow'd Bert allus stands in that spot.
Only when I started playing for the darts team, did anything approaching some sort of acceptance, happen.
Sounds just like round here...If you 'aint wukked darn t' pit'....you must be some sort of 'poof'
They don't bother me though 'cos I've got working dogs and canaries..
Seriously though,where I lived in Nottingham,a 'crocodile' of schoolkids would be at least 50% coloured if not more...round here it's like going back to the 50s
A black kid is extremely rare.
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Heat4input
Once got told by a 7 year old that ''you starved us''(the english),his parents were 3rd generation irish settlers but they still taught there kids to hate us
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Mickymoody
Have you moved to the village where Midsummer murders is set?
I can relate to the earlier post, 'Don't sit there, old Jim sits there he does', so after a quick check that I wasn't sat on him, with an empty room, I stated, I'll move if he comes in, 'No you will move now, that's Jim's place, always has been'...
So moved a seat down, hoping to meet Old Jim, turns out old Jim had been dead 20 years...(?)...
After that place had no room for customers, because all the seats were occupied by spirits (bad pun!), many people moved onto a social club a few meters up the road, where an argument flared up, are you loyal to your area, are you born and bred to your village? Turns out the majority most were born and inbred from another nearby township, or slum village, and moved in, but loyal to their newly found surrounds, heaven from slum, and I was an outsider, as being living in that area for most of my life, my moving out for a while, made me an outsider...
Village mentality...?? Maybe I could understand it in some remote Cornish village (no offense), but not somewhere on the outskirts of Madchester! If someone that has lived there all their lives and a newcomer comes in, ye olde peoples are curious, and distrusting it seems, even to those that return to their roots. Now I get old people at the bus stop, telling me my Family history, that I don't know, and telling me about history I never knew. "You tell your Mum, Agnes was asking after her", I recall this to my Mother, and she says, I spoke to her once in 1962....Agnes must be, by account 110 years old??
I can relate to the earlier post, 'Don't sit there, old Jim sits there he does', so after a quick check that I wasn't sat on him, with an empty room, I stated, I'll move if he comes in, 'No you will move now, that's Jim's place, always has been'...
So moved a seat down, hoping to meet Old Jim, turns out old Jim had been dead 20 years...(?)...
After that place had no room for customers, because all the seats were occupied by spirits (bad pun!), many people moved onto a social club a few meters up the road, where an argument flared up, are you loyal to your area, are you born and bred to your village? Turns out the majority most were born and inbred from another nearby township, or slum village, and moved in, but loyal to their newly found surrounds, heaven from slum, and I was an outsider, as being living in that area for most of my life, my moving out for a while, made me an outsider...
Village mentality...?? Maybe I could understand it in some remote Cornish village (no offense), but not somewhere on the outskirts of Madchester! If someone that has lived there all their lives and a newcomer comes in, ye olde peoples are curious, and distrusting it seems, even to those that return to their roots. Now I get old people at the bus stop, telling me my Family history, that I don't know, and telling me about history I never knew. "You tell your Mum, Agnes was asking after her", I recall this to my Mother, and she says, I spoke to her once in 1962....Agnes must be, by account 110 years old??
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thatbloke
The last village I lived in wasn't even a village. It was about half a dozen houses in-between two villages. No body spoke to anyone apart from the odd good morning or hi.
The nearest local pub had about 5 drinkers in it. I went there and started chatting and eventually they told me they were outcasts because nobody in the village pubs would speak to them. That pub closed down soon afterwards.
Apparently just before I arrived the pub had changed hands and the new custodians barred most of their clientèle for drug taking, so everyone left except the outcasts.
The nearest local pub had about 5 drinkers in it. I went there and started chatting and eventually they told me they were outcasts because nobody in the village pubs would speak to them. That pub closed down soon afterwards.
Apparently just before I arrived the pub had changed hands and the new custodians barred most of their clientèle for drug taking, so everyone left except the outcasts.
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