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Originally Posted by Guitarmaan
This is funny to read, and very telling.
I lived in Uxbridge for over 30 years (for my sins) and still have family there. And as I type right now, I'm temporarily in Uxbridge yet again 
Uxbridge has changed folks. It's been sudden and severe. For so many years Uxbridge was indeed a model of safety and predictability. Saturday night fighting aside, this place was almost as safe as Windsor. But not anymore. And the reason I said it's funny to read this is just earlier today I had a conversation with family about now having to be cautious in Uxbridge. But it's really no joke.
Basically a lot of condensed housing was built in Uxbridge, but it didn't sell. So as ever the council steps in and leases the housing. So you end up with leased council housing. A lot of it. And for our American friends council housing is the equivalent to Section 8. Along with decent people, come the jailbirds and misfits.
Council tenants in the majority are friendly ordinary people. But there's a minority who make a big impact. And I know they've arrived because I've met them. I realised straight away that things are different here now. It's similar to the movement of poorer people from Los Angeles to the Inland Empire. Suddenly San Bernardino took a turn for the worse and Palmdale locals wondered what the hell had just happened
Anyway I thought I'd chime in on this because it struck a chord. Obviously the word is out... Uxbridge isn't what it used to be. |
This post reminds me of a recent conversation I had with someone I know who now lives round here.
She and her family lived in Uxbridge and according to her, as you were saying, much new social housing sprung up.
However the big controversy was that the new social housing was being used by people who had been moved out of other boroughs and the very strong suggestion was that these other boroughs were shipping out their problem tenants and other less desirable people on the housing waiting list.
What you say seems to give further credence to what she said.
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