Decision due on new homes (From Daily Echo)

"Affordable housing" = "housing for the work-shy", subsidised by honest hardworking taxpayers.

Keep the garages!!!

Keep all the affordable housing on the estates as much as possible. There is a lot of room on Thornhill estate for more homes, keep on building.

Could you tell me why you hate Thornhill so much? Not everyone there is bad....yes there are some undesirables but there is everywhere. Thornhill is lovely in most places, and, may I add, it is a vast area. I live in Thornill. I have three children (all by the same father I might add - and no I am not related to him either), I am happily married, I own my home outright, we have two cars which are our own, taxed and insured. Neither myself or my husband have ever been in trouble with the police. My children do not wander the streets or go anywhere unsupervised (they are too young). Both my husband and myself have degrees and are both employed as teachers in well known schools. Hey we could even be teaching your children! I was born in Thornhill and have lived here all my life. Not everyone here is bad - spend some time here and get to know the people and the area before making assumptions about all that live here.

A-concerned-Mum wrote:
Could you tell me why you hate Thornhill so much? Not everyone there is bad....yes there are some undesirables but there is everywhere. Thornhill is lovely in most places, and, may I add, it is a vast area. I live in Thornill. I have three children (all by the same father I might add - and no I am not related to him either), I am happily married, I own my home outright, we have two cars which are our own, taxed and insured. Neither myself or my husband have ever been in trouble with the police. My children do not wander the streets or go anywhere unsupervised (they are too young). Both my husband and myself have degrees and are both employed as teachers in well known schools. Hey we could even be teaching your children! I was born in Thornhill and have lived here all my life. Not everyone here is bad - spend some time here and get to know the people and the area before making assumptions about all that live here.

Well said..........i think its the one's with a chip on their shoulder or feel that they are middle class or above that condemn people like you and your suburb of Southampton.........
...probably Tories....just so out of touch

A-concerned-Mum wrote:
Could you tell me why you hate Thornhill so much? Not everyone there is bad....yes there are some undesirables but there is everywhere. Thornhill is lovely in most places, and, may I add, it is a vast area. I live in Thornill. I have three children (all by the same father I might add - and no I am not related to him either), I am happily married, I own my home outright, we have two cars which are our own, taxed and insured. Neither myself or my husband have ever been in trouble with the police. My children do not wander the streets or go anywhere unsupervised (they are too young). Both my husband and myself have degrees and are both employed as teachers in well known schools. Hey we could even be teaching your children! I was born in Thornhill and have lived here all my life. Not everyone here is bad - spend some time here and get to know the people and the area before making assumptions about all that live here.

My word, aren't you a humble success story? Or is it rather that you are highly defensive and wearing rose-tinted glasses so have a blurred perception of the reality of that part of Southampton and cannot see what many others can see and experience?

clausentum wrote:

A-concerned-Mum wrote:
Could you tell me why you hate Thornhill so much? Not everyone there is bad....yes there are some undesirables but there is everywhere. Thornhill is lovely in most places, and, may I add, it is a vast area. I live in Thornill. I have three children (all by the same father I might add - and no I am not related to him either), I am happily married, I own my home outright, we have two cars which are our own, taxed and insured. Neither myself or my husband have ever been in trouble with the police. My children do not wander the streets or go anywhere unsupervised (they are too young). Both my husband and myself have degrees and are both employed as teachers in well known schools. Hey we could even be teaching your children! I was born in Thornhill and have lived here all my life. Not everyone here is bad - spend some time here and get to know the people and the area before making assumptions about all that live here.

My word, aren't you a humble success story? Or is it rather that you are highly defensive and wearing rose-tinted glasses so have a blurred perception of the reality of that part of Southampton and cannot see what many others can see and experience?

To A-concerned-Mum, Southampton.........
..I rest my case

Lone Ranger wrote:

clausentum wrote:

A-concerned-Mum wrote:
Could you tell me why you hate Thornhill so much? Not everyone there is bad....yes there are some undesirables but there is everywhere. Thornhill is lovely in most places, and, may I add, it is a vast area. I live in Thornill. I have three children (all by the same father I might add - and no I am not related to him either), I am happily married, I own my home outright, we have two cars which are our own, taxed and insured. Neither myself or my husband have ever been in trouble with the police. My children do not wander the streets or go anywhere unsupervised (they are too young). Both my husband and myself have degrees and are both employed as teachers in well known schools. Hey we could even be teaching your children! I was born in Thornhill and have lived here all my life. Not everyone here is bad - spend some time here and get to know the people and the area before making assumptions about all that live here.

My word, aren't you a humble success story? Or is it rather that you are highly defensive and wearing rose-tinted glasses so have a blurred perception of the reality of that part of Southampton and cannot see what many others can see and experience?

To A-concerned-Mum, Southampton.........

..I rest my case

You don't have a case to rest.

Glibly, you have (false) assumptions - middle class, tory voter - and you have political prejudice.

But they do not make up a case.

What exactly, makes Thornhill a Shangr-ila and Utopian place in which to live and bring up children??

Enlighten me.

Of course my political assumptions of you are false...never doubted that for one minute........Thornh
ill is no Shagri-la and never said it was....however there are some excellent people, parents and kids at Thornhill who are good and honest> but as you know they are all tarred with the same brush which is totally unreasonable.
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No one ever said it was a marvellous place to live but your put down of "rose tinted glasses" suggests that you have no regard for the good honest people there.
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However, with your sarcasm i dont expect to ever enlighten you.
And to suggest that i have political prejudice is so off the mark !!

Lone Ranger wrote:
Of course my political assumptions of you are false...never doubted that for one minute........Thornh

ill is no Shagri-la and never said it was....however there are some excellent people, parents and kids at Thornhill who are good and honest> but as you know they are all tarred with the same brush which is totally unreasonable.
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No one ever said it was a marvellous place to live but your put down of "rose tinted glasses" suggests that you have no regard for the good honest people there.
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However, with your sarcasm i dont expect to ever enlighten you.
And to suggest that i have political prejudice is so off the mark !!

Shhh. Steady on. Keep it quiet. Your PR skills might act as a magnet for people from all over the Planet to want to uproot and move to Thornhill.

Nothing wrong with sarcasm to bolster a point. It's just another tool for any wordsmith. Why deride sarcasm when you use it too to strengthen your own views?

Hypocrisy.

Of course some decent folk live in Thornhill, as decent folk populate every community. But if you gloss over the well-documented history of this particular blighted community then you are not objective and deny the fact many, many, many people regard Thornhill as the last place on Earth, in which they would choose to live, let alone bring up a family.