Living in a housing estate is such a dehumanising experience

I grew up in a lone house in the countryside. We weren’t rich, nor middle class. I simply had old boomer parents who could purchase property for 50p back in the day. Ah how we missed out..

Anyway. Due to abuse I cut contact with my entire family in 2018 and ended up in a housing estate with my partner. Although I’m glad to have a home, it’s truly a sickening way to live and I can’t believe people purposefully raise children here.

There is noise constantly. Dogs barking, children screaming, people fighting outside, lawn mowers, cars and the one that shocked me most- constant road or house construction. But it’s not just the noise. Today we woke up to our water not working, turns out there’s work being done on the pipes down the road, so it’s been turned off. Just randomly. No warning, nothing. Where I used to live, you’d have been given a letter in the post and a weeks notice before anything like that ever occurred. But here, they don’t give two fucks about people.

The amount of times I’ve woken up with a fright because some builders are doing some crap right outside my window… I’ve had to start sleeping with ear plugs. In my own home… what a fucking disgrace.

So yh. I feel bad for anyone who has to live like this, and for those of you who raise kids here- shame on you, honestly. Do better. Adults don’t deserve this crap and neither do children especially. I am much more suicidal since living in such a shithole.