[Closed] Who's got the most muticultural neighbours?

I live in West Norfolk having married a local girl, i'm from Portsmouth and treated as an "interloper" and someone of interest!

It's about as white middle class as it gets where I live!

Not me. I've only once seen a POC in my road, and she was visiting. There may be some East Europeans around but I'm not aware of any. I have seen a Lithuanian registered Audi parked a couple of streets away a few times, so obviously I voted Out.

Stop procrastinating and order that shitting Uber already, Mol!

I live next to an allotment, it's agricultural.

I live next to an allotment, it's agricultural.

We waited 4 years for that?

Booo, I say, boooo!

Not us.

When you've Indian and Chinese restaurants/takeaways employing white staff you know you're not in a 'multicultural' area.

http://www.ourscottishborders.com/invest/facts/demographics

And the Brexiter at work still thinks we've a local immigrant 'problem'...

It's about as white working class as it gets where I live!

Apparently we've 1356 people in our council ward. Of which, 1304 are white, 1254 British.

There are 3 Indians and no ****stani/Bangladeshi. Fourteen black, and two arabs.

Quite homogeneous really.

Having said that, I live next to a Japanese woman. And one of my friends on the road does have an Irish passport! 😀

My whole neighbourhood is very multicultural, but funny enough, of my immediate neighbours, there is one elderly German Swiss woman, and everyone else is white British. Unless you count my own, Russlanddeutsch/Ukrainian/British-Canadian family as ethnically distinct!

I've got an Elvis impersonator, a bloke who cleans his Fiesta every day, a plumber, a plasterer and a few people I've never met. All white, but then it is pretty unusual to see any black or Asian faces in the area. Even the girl behind the counter of the Chinese takeaway is white.

Not very multi-cultural where I live now, unfortunately.
Ignoring the actual question somewhat....I grew up in Wembley, which is in the London Borough of Brent - one of the most ethnically diverse areas of the country.

On one side our neighbours were Hindu (they've moved & there's now a family with a Caribbean background living there) & on the other side they are Muslim. Over the road, there was a couple of Caribbean families. There were also Jewish people down the road, as well as a couple of Irish families.

God knows how many cultural/religious backgrounds we had at high school - I think in our year of around 120-130 children, there were only 20 who would be considered White British.
One of my best mates at school had a Kenyan dad & Indian Mum, another's parents were from Egypt, my Sister & I (twins) were good friends with another set of twins who are Greek-Cypriot, my first girlfriend was Chinese, but I had a real crush on two girls who had a Persian background & another who was from Yugoslavia....
I used to go running with a Portuguese bloke who could absolutely slaughter me (800m in ~2mins - can't remember if it was just over or just under, but I was running 2min 18s at the time) and we used to give a local Somali kid (Mohammed) a lift to XC races & athletic meets when I ran for Thames Valley Harriers, as his family didn't own a car....

I think at school, the most common surname on the register was Patel.

Quite a mix thinking about it and an environment that I definitely miss.

It's about as white middle class as it gets where I live!

+1.

Pretty much everyone else is a Daily Mail reading, white middle class pensioner in our road.

If a POC is seen in local area most of the neighbours would assume either they were delivering takeaway food or generally up to no good.

I live in Cirencester, the tweedy heart of the Cotswolds. Does that answer your question?

Our neighbours are from Down South, though they have lived in the village for over thirty years now. That's about as radical as it gets on our street.

Having said that a lesbian couple moved in to the house at the bottom of the road at the beginning of last year, but no-one's really spoken to them as they're not overly friendly

I live surrounded by a sea of Spaniards. I'm the odd one out 🙂

Work is better: I work with people from Peru, Venezuela, Argentina, Colombians, and more Spaniards. (Monolingual but multicultural, I suppose).

Considering our family predilection for general loudness and the fact that I spend most of the summer in the garden BBQ'ing vast hunks of smoked pig we get on remarkably well with our Somali Muslim neighbours.

The dad's got well into his road cycling since moving here which has helped. His daughter is also getting quite keen and seeing as she's basically composed of 75% leg, I'm hoping she'll try racing, as with a bit of training I suspect she's going to be proper rapid.

Somali pancakes are ace BTW, highly recommended.

Not me...

Even in my lads class of 25 at school, there's only 1 'minority'

Our road is like a bad soap opera, shoehorning most of the stereotypes of French society into a dozen houses: 3 doors down to the right there's a Turkish-kurdish family, next to them is a Moroccan family (as there is 3 doors to the left) opposite them are a franco-vietnamese family and on the corner are a family from Martinique. And then there's us 🙂
We're just missing a totally over the top West African matriarch to turn it into a sitcom.

Edit: May I add that not being content with the ethnic mix in our village and being virtue signalling,lefty pinko's, two abandoned houses in the old part are being restored to house Syrian families by the villagers.

I live in a Kent village.

On my road there is a Muslim family, the father, white British convert. The wife is Asian descent.

That's it for the whole village, apart from an Indian chap that owns the village shop, although I never seen him but know he's an Indian as his white, local staff, are always slagging him off in a casually racist way. Charming.

At work I work with the League of Nations, Brit, Dutch, American, S African, Singaporean, Chinese, Indian and some others.

I live on the Isle of Wight. Neighbours are Chinese (coincedentally with close family in the Taiwanese bike trade) and I'm technically an overn'er. Rest of the close is white, although there is a lady of eastern euro descent living with an older gentleman - not sure if that raises eyebrows and twitches curtains or not.

It should be added the island voted to leave and is a safe seat for a pro-Brexit MP. Not that I'm saying the island is geriatric, white and stuck in the '70s, you understand.

Direct neighbours - French, ****stani, Greek, Brummie, American, Russian.

All are globalist/consumerist and are middle-class, so not exactly 'culturally diverse'.

Having said that a lesbian couple moved in to the house at the bottom of the road at the beginning of last year, but no-one's really spoken to them as they're not overly friendly

Unsurprising, they're known for being tight-lipped.

(Sorry.)

Like my street, Ocrider, but I can add Spanish and Portuguese. A lady who has just retired replaced work at teh tax office with voluntary work in the refugee centre. The area is leftward leaning but the NF scores around 15%.

It's all old white people.

Odd really.
Always lived in very diverse places before.

Although we've got a large Asian population people are pretty segregated, in terms of residential area and therefore schooling etc.

I've lived in much smaller and larger places, not so far away, that have been much more integrated and I find it a bit sad, tbh.

My next door neighbour

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according to this - https://www.streetcheck.co.uk

...my street is about 83% white, and 80% born in UK (main minority here is Eastern Europe, the catholic church does very well).

So, not all that multicultural.

my next door neighbour

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Very mixed neighbours here - swedes on one side, turnips at the back, cabbages the other side, wheat across the road, and maize a bit further down the road. 😆

The area is leftward leaning but the NF scores around 15%

Unfortunately they score higher here (a lot of the French families are pieds noir and still hold a grudge from the 60's)

doris5000 - interesting link.

My postcode is 97% whits and 83% British born.

We have Italian, Polish and Malaysian neighbours. My daughter's friends at school have parents from Germany, Poland, Greece and Hungary.

My next door neighbour is Ukrainian and married a woman that one would describe as a 'traveller' that has 2 daughters by different fathers that are both now shacked up with 2 lads with 'origin unknown' nationality!!

Me. Next door was born in Barnstaple, across the road grew up in Bideford, and next door to them from Scotland???!! Wurz that too??

Like much of rural Scotland, the biggest population of non-natives are English - almost 30% in my postcode.

Just checked the postcode where I was brought up.

White 250
Mixed Ethnicity 1

UK Nationals 245
Others 6

That has to be one of the least diverse streets in the UK.

Interesting link indeed. 92% white, 91% British born for me.

I also looked up my brother's postcode in East London - 14% white, 37% British born.

According to streetcheck posted above my area is 92% white, being a rural fishing town in Galloway i guess thats to be expected as i know of only two africans who live/work on one of the fishing boats in the town, we have a chinese restaurant but the chans have been here for as long as i can remember and there are quite a few polish folk in the area who work at the fish factory.

Me for the win then.

Large council(mostly ex-council now obvs.) estate north of london.
Rarely hear anyone speak english.
Never any trouble, though it seems every week, is firework celebration time for someone.

I have two homes - where I live in Edinburgh isn't hugely multi-cultural, however where I live in London is very much so.

there's an Italian and Indonesian couple across the road that's it.

I have a Brexiteer one side and a Policewoman the other.

That streetcheck page is interesting....

For my postcode...

376 people
372 White
2 Mixed Ethnicity
1 Asian
1 Other.....

For the postcode where I grew up...

18% white
only 33% of residents born in England

For religion, out of 447 people,

149 Christian
136 Hindu
121 Muslim
A couple of Buddhists & only one Sikh which surprised me....

I live in one of a block of four terraced houses.
The first house I don't know where they are from but there English is very bad but at a guess I would say North African. The second house is mine, he third house a young Romanian family live and in the fourth house there is a Portuguese couple.

This is very recent two years ago all were owned by local English family's who lived in them long enough to raise a family but have now moved on and sold to buy to let landlords, apart from the Portuguese who own there house.

Interesting link there doris.

https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/

according to that, 263 people live on my street

there are 16 houses, so that's roughly 16.5 people per house. Seems quite packed, there are only 2 people in our house so smoe of the others muct be really cramped 🙂

in fact to my knowledge at the time of the last census there were (takes off socks to carry on counting up...) 45, including the kids - still more than I'd have expected to be frank as there were at least 2 single occupant houses, both ladies having been widowed

Not me, I think I am the closest to being foreign because I went to France over christmas 😆

I don't understand that "streetcheck" thing. According to them there are 286 people in my postcode - I doubt it very much, there's only 4 houses!!

Having lived in areas where as a white bloke I was definitely in the minority, and really enjoyed it (I'm soooooooooo cosmopolitan daaaaaaaahlinng) I now live somewhere where they still burn witches.

Had a massive barney about a year ago in my local with a few of the regulars. Apparently I was being a precious snowflake for objecting to them blaming all the country's ills on '****'s' and '****s'. It's like living in a bad sitcom starring Jim Davidson

I don't understand that "streetcheck" thing.

Me neither, it says that on my street there is [b]one[/b] terraced house; how's that work?

According to Street Check, there's one Chinese person living in my street. They must spend a lot of time indoors.

Darlington is a very white British town. To maintain stereotypes, the only non-white British people in my street are the Hindu family who run the corner shop and a Gypsy family who own a haulage company.

We live in a cul-de-sac - that is proper French so we must be multicultural.

Like most of Scotland our road reflects the nation - about a third of us are English. 😉

At the outdoor centre on Loch Tay one of our old staff was known as, and would self proclaim, he was the only black in the village....

I don't understand that "streetcheck" thing. According to them there are 286 people in my postcode - I doubt it very much, there's only 4 houses!!

It's based on Census Output Area data rather than actual postcode.

from the link:
They are supposed to have at least 40 people to maintain confidentiality.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2001censusandearlier/dataandproducts/outputgeography/outputareas

Ahh, there's a bit of info on the housing tab under the link "Are these numbers higher than you expected? Click here for explanation."

About the Census Data
The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Waterside Avenue, Marple, Stockport, is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. They are performed once every 10 years. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. The figures are therefore representative of the local area, not a specific street address or row of houses. .

The census collection is designed so that each group of postcodes should contain at least 100 people (50 in Scotland). This is done to preserve the anonymity of the people in that area, as some postcodes cover a very small area, sometimes a single building. You can see the area covered by the census statistics by clicking "Show Census Area Covered" below the map on the Summary tab.

I live in Bradford which is racially segregated. So where I live, the neighbours are all British white.

I have no problem with my neighbours they are nice people but the landlord who recently bought the house to my right where the family of unknown origin live completely destroyed the beautiful front an rear gardens cutting and ripping out any sign of life leaving just a Barron dead mess because he believed that because the gardens looked like they needed maintaining was putting people off, the landlord for the sake of post is Asian.

According to that website I live in the most non-multicultural and middle class road, ever.... 😕

117 people, 111 are UK residents, 86 Scottish and 24 English, 100% white, 27 working of which 24 of us are AB, no flats or terraces and 75% of the homes are owned outright....

Monday to Wednesday (or Thursday) "home" is west London, specifally the environs of Shepherds Bush. Multicultural is an understatement.

Thurs - Sun, home is a small village in the North as white as the driven snow.

In both places I am an interloper.

out of 101 people in my area, theres 68 scots, 21 english, and 1 indian according to streetcheck. Been here for over 10 years and dont think ive ever seen an indian....

That Stretcheck seems pretty accurate for where I live - 489 White and 3 Mixed. Country of birth is UK apart from 6 EU and 3 Other. Interestingly, 67 people don't hold a passport.
Can't be much of West Yorkshire with numbers like that surely?

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Small Hampshire village...

The one Chinese is a lovely fella who spends most of the year in Hong Kong.
The "other Asian" is the result of next doors son having Zero social skills - so he bought himself a Thai bride.

[i]White 101
Mixed Ethnicity 3
****stani 143
Chinese 5
Other Asian 21[/i]

What do I win?

Hmm, very small somerset village. Streetcheck says this:

White 279
Mixed Ethnicity 5
Bangladeshi 1
Other Asian 2
Black Caribbean 1
Total 288

And to be honest, i have no idea where the non whites are living - even the 3 non English people I know are 1 Irish 1 Portuguese and 1 Spanish. I actually fear a little bit for my kids education!

Sadly, just prior to brexit the spanish lady (a local school teacher) was told 'I'll be glad when we're out and we can kick your kind out of the country' right outside her front door. A real shame her husband (quite a talanted amature boxer) wasn't there to hear.....

Where I used to live (East park Road, Leicester) it is now this:

Ethnic Group
White 33
Mixed Ethnicity 8
Indian 245
****stani 26
Bangladeshi 7
Chinese 1
Other Asian 20
Black Caribbean 2
Other Black/African/Caribbean 1
Other 13
Total 356

Which feels like it's swung to a few less whites, but the general feel of the place would be the same.

street check says 59% white and 69% English born which seem about right , though I would guess a fair few of the white are not also English born .

I was born in Ossett in the 60S and we didn't have any non white residents till I was 12 and then just the one Indian family running a corner shop.

Where I grew up in wembley

White 94
Mixed Ethnicity 18
Indian 86
****stani 16
Other Asian 60
Black African 44
Black Caribbean 49
Other Black/African/Caribbean 33
Other 22
Total 422

About as multicultural as it gets in the local town
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We've got: Romanian, French, unidentified Eastern European, white British, Afro-Caribbean and some bonus crusties in caravans on our street. The joys of East Central Bristol. For the most part, everyone gets along.

Do I win?

Ethnic Group
White 252
Mixed Ethnicity 1
Total 253

chip - Member

Where I grew up in wembley

(Not that) small world....

Whereabouts? I grew up just off Park Lane, about a 2-3 min walk from the High Rd....
Primary School was Wembley Manor (although Park Lane was closer) and went to Preston Manor High School.....

The postcode I grew up in:
White 143
Mixed Ethnicity 1
Total 144

The postcode I now live in:
White 128
Mixed Ethnicity 1
Total 129

So no - some of my best friends are not black 🙁

When I was at school the new English teacher (who arrived from Burnley) noted the lack of diversity. She asked the class if there were any non-whites in the area. There was a long pause until somebody said, "I think there's a Chinese family in xxx (Highland town 30 miles away).

100% Weegie on both sides.

Weegie is the most diverse type of diversity. .

Not very it seems.

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My neighbours are sheep, a few horses, a couple of tawny owls and a barn owl on one side... couple of locals next door (Cumbrian), and a southerner across the way (multicultural see!).

This is what you get for living in the Lakes 😉

Weegie is the most diverse type of diversity. .

This.......... Kinda 😉

I could have taken a girl home to my parents of absolutely any ethnicity and my parents and neighbours would have unquestioningly welcomed her into their homes....................unless she went to St. Brendan's High School

I genuinely overhead a conversation between two old guys when I was a kid debating if the local Asian shopkeeper was a Protestant Muslim or a Catholic Muslim. 😯

Liverpool. White British in every house on my road.

When I lived back home in West Yorkshire there were a lot of people on my street from various cultures. I was on friendly terms with most of them.

In Macclesfield my neighbours, all bar one, are middle class whiteys. The bar one is Mr Wong, nice guy but seems quite nervous or shy so only know him to wave / nod at.

In Macclesfield my neighbours, all bar one, are middle class whiteys. The bar one is Mr Wong, nice guy but seems quite nervous or shy so only know him to wave / nod at.

So what you're saying is in your street, most are all white, but there's one guy who is a completely Wong.

So what you're saying is in your street, most are all white, but there's one guy who is a completely Wong.

You've just lost the right to mock one of my shit puns ever again. Even I wouldn't have gone with that. 😉

We had some offcomers once. Fed us for the winter.

Ethnic Group
White 161
Total 161

Country of Birth
England 0
Wales 0
Scotland 161
Northern Ireland 0
Republic of Ireland 0
European Union 0
Other 0
Total 161

Religion
Catholic 61
Other Christian 58
No Religion 42
Buddhist 0
Hindu 0
Jewish 0
Muslim 0
Sikh 0
Other Religion 0
Not Stated 0
Total 161