Sentences with phrase «living on a council estate»

I live on a council estate myself and I daren't put this [costume] on walking through there, I'd get mugged.

I started painting again when I was living on a council estate in south - east London and wanted to tell the stories that people tell each other about living in a place like that: stories that become urban myths.

«I live on a council estate in Birmingham UK.

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People on council estates were either criminals or living the Life of Riley at the expense of the taxpayer.

A quick anecdote; I lived and grew up on an undesirable council estate in NE England - the drug dealer on the corner claiming incapacity benefit rankled much more with my father than when the chap down the street had a lottery win.

The political class Adam [Afriyie] has got a very compelling story in many ways, he's self - made, was brought up on a council estate in Peckham, a guy of colour, very successful businessman and in many ways... If you look at David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, George Osborne, Ed Balls, they're all people who have essentially spent their entire working life in politics, almost all of them have been PPE or equivalent graduates from Oxford or Cambridge.

Neighbours on the Fieldhead council estate said the suspect had lived here 40 years with a female relative, who died a number of years ago, leaving him alone.

Davis, 67, is not a traditional Tory, having begun his life with a single mother in Yorkshire and growing up on a council estate in south London.

An economic slowdown is widely expected by city officials, economists, and budget watchdogs, and the Council's budget response notes the consequences it could have on consumer spending, tax revenue, real estate prices, and cost of living.

Edinburgh International Film Festival There's a slightly condescending tendency among many critics to brand almost any British film set on a working - class council estate as «miserablist» simply by virtue of the aesthetics of its setting, despite the fact that many thousands of people live functional, three - dimensional lives in precisely such conditions.

Never Far from Nowhere (1996), her second, is set during the 1970s and tells the story of two very different sisters living on a London council estate.

The most rewarding part of serving on the Broker Advisory Council is the willingness of all the brokers to donate their time, talent and experience to make Real Living the best real estate company in the industry.