cant for the life of me think of a place where the definition in my head actually exists.

Well how the deuce are we meant to think of a place in your head then?

If you and I keep going though we might make it to 3 pages, though my boy will be coming round from his nap soon, and I really need to clean the bog before that happens. Laters…good luck with your quest for other folk finding a definition in your own head…

Hand-wash-basin-roll-of-carpet-hatchback?

ok, how about this?

can’t really tell if it’s an estate though

photoshop fail estate?

EDIT – might not be an estate… might not be sinking.

If it’s an estate car it’s a winner!

EDIT – See this pictorial. of a sink estate.

This one is an estate though:

I was there (with about 40 others) when the plonker got stuck. Shame as the car was only 2 weeks old.

sink estates in my opinion do exist, but are as much a result of housing policy as anything else. If you can qualify for council housing you probably have issues of some description. Be it drugs, single parent, asylum etc. What you end up with an estate of problems.

Wow how narrow minded are you!
Since when is being a single parent an ‘issue of some description’.
I am a single parent but I am certainly not an issue or a problem.

Since when is being a single parent an ‘issue of some description’.

A lot of single parents do not earn enough to pay their way. I’m sure the poster you quoted didn’t mean that all single parents are in that position, but knowing how much childcare costs I’d suggest you’re in a minority.

Since when is being a single parent an ‘issue of some description’.

and being a single parent will increase substantially your points score for getting social housing.

I’m sure no malice was intended.

restless, not saying you are a problem, what i am trying to say is all the groups that are most likely to need help are because of housing policy often dumped into the same estates often with very little help.

For the record i came from a single parent household, money was always tight, you learn to do without, well you know no better so don’t know you are doing without, such is life. No one says life is fair, but i saw many others take the easy route of getting what they were “entitled” to. The environment in which you live matters, call it peer pressure if you will. It does no one any favours to dump those who need help into one place, preferably far away from the decent schools, the decent middle class areas, etc.