I need a detached house with no neighbours at all

[darmstadt]

I'm quite happy living in my multi-cultural multi-racial apartment block. There's a couple of Brits (not including me), some Spanish, some Portuguese, some Finns, an Egyptian chap, some French, some Italian, some African (not too sure which countries), some Asian (again not too sure which countries), a Sikh family, some Orientals and even some Germans. Lucky me to have such a wide range of people to live amongst and share my life with rather than being stuck in a ghetto

[Unix]

You labelled your hypothetical criminal as a Romanian but felt no need to describe the ethnicity of your positive role model (the lawyer).

I am 99% sure that you did this because you are a racist.

Nope Romanians are not a single race of people, it describes a person born in that Nation (or one that legally resides there), Im sure there are Black, White and other races in Romania.

[kevpuk]

<snip>some Finns<snip>

Yikes! I married one.....funny bunch

[d000hg]

Wales, the North - it's all the same, poorly educated thickos who can't hack the competition in the SE.

You can do better than that Sas.

[Unix]

Anyway to summarise this rather futile and silly thread:

If you are successful you can select your neighbours by buying in a classy area full of educated and successful people living in large detached houses.

HTH, BIDI.

My point is there are such places in the North of the UK, but the rest I agree with, obviously the OP is not in one of them.

[speling bee]

Nope Romanians are not a single race of people, it describes a person born in that Nation (or one that legally resides there), Im sure there are Black, White and other races in Romania.

This is my favourite defence. So what you're saying is that you're a nasty little bigot but not a racist one?

[d000hg]

Anyway to summarise this rather futile and silly thread:

If you are successful you can select your neighbours by buying in a classy area full of educated and successful people living in large detached houses.

HTH, BIDI.

Living in a street full of Sasguru-clones makes becoming successful seem rather less desirable.

[vetran]

You really must avoid making the rather grevious mistake that everyone is of your lower social class.

some of them can spell.

We all know your pulled myself up by my bootstraps and I'm a self made man persona is based on being born with a silver spoon up your rear end! You being 'Tim nasty but dim' is hardly an achievement!

[darmstadt]

Yikes! I married one.....funny bunch

Yes they are, but nice. I worked in Helsinki once and it was, at times, a bit strange. The Finn couple above me drive a Porsche 911 cabrio but I'm not too sure if its the wife or husband as they wear a doo-rag and black sunglasses. Many years ago when I lived in Brentwood I had one of the chaps who was in Procul Harum living below me and his wife, a Finn, used to like sunbathing on top of the garage under my bedroom window. I used to get lots of visitors. If your wife is anything like her then you're a lucky man

[sasguru]

Living in a street full of Sasguru-clones makes becoming successful seem rather less desirable.

Most of my neighbours are considerably less good-looking than I am.