General Chat

in your area out of interest we have a indian family in the take away and some polish people xx

No don't think so
Indian take away 4 miles away

jenx

I work at a library so we get a lot of foreign people in to email home. Mainly Polish and Romanian people. Very nice folks they are too.

Next door but one are Asian. The men work in a local Indian restaurant. The wife and 2 daughters hardly ever leave the house, and hide if we ever knock on their door. Every few months, they make curry and the smell coming from their house is absolutely gorgeous.

The man that cuts our lawn (we are too lazy) is Turkish. Every few months he pops back home to help on the family olive farm. Always brings us back Turkish delight that his sister has made.......Yum

One side to me are Maltese and the other side is Japenese.Both familes are very nice. Annie

i lived next door to a chinese couple once gawd did i hint there house smelled nice xx

i have aliens and mad ppl where i live lol
not sure what nationality they are though lol
Rosex

Mostly British people around here but there is a family from Bangladesh and another family South African / Asian.
All are very friendly hard working folk.

A little further away nearer to Folkestone are many Nepalese from the Gurkha Regiment.

Gwyn

We have Indians - alas not red ones, so no tepees in the garden. But smell of cooking sometimes is mouthwatering. An Italian about 6 doors up. OH is Irish so have one in the house pmsl.

Up the road is another Irish family - no two that know of, one southern ireland one Belfast. There is also a Geman lady up the next street. I am sure there are lots more.
Tina x

There are some in the local area over another part,,but not where I live,, not even another colour,,,

pmsl rosie xx

We have an asian family a few rds away and run our local shop / post office, they are always nice and polite - and say hello if we see them when we are doing our shopping out in town.

Having queued in their shop we have seen what they face every day which is not on, they work hard and long hours and perform a service no one else locally has chosen to do.

I personaly think they are a very important part of our community and I consider them high up in the local community and certainly more so than some of the layabouts that dont do anything than moan and collect their giro.

If it wasnt for them a lot of our older comminity would not get to speak to people on a daily basis and we would not have a local (free) cash machine and other things they have campaigned for.

I for one would be proud to have them living next door.

When I went out a walk at lunch time today from work I felt I was in a foreign country as everyone apart from the school kids were either African , Asian or something else non white. We have lovely Asian neighbours across the road, my next door neighbour is Polish , he`s been here for years.
Ros xx

Not really.There are a few people who are,I think,eastern european who pick the raspberries.They only stay here for a few weeks.
Some students at the college asked me what the ethnic mix was here.Actually they are!

where i live there are very few

foreign families

but we have lots in the town area

live and let live

My family is mixed race. My sil is of Antiguan parents born here. My neighbours to the left are Asian and to the right Turkish. The majority of the people living in our street are either Asian, West Indian, Somalian and a few English. Our community is very multi cultural. In my church we proudly claim to be of 16 different nationalities and we all get along like one big family. When I go home to Wales I always find it very strange not to see coloured people out and about.

my neighbour is ummm sad.
above me is bleedy looby looo
then above her are chinese and above them are white and mental.
not really colourful here at all
just all mental
apart from me that is :-))))
Rosex

Come to Cardiff Issy - we've always had a coloured population here - Cardiff has always been fairly cosmopolitan because of the docks - Tiger Bay and all that. In the suburbs though where I am they are few and far between - think there are two Indian families in my road - also as we have the psychiatric hospital practically on the doorstep we have a fair number of doctors of various nationalities and colours, along with nursing staff from the Phillipines and Mauritius - those last two countries seem to specialise in psychiatric medicine

In my street, there are Irish, English, Scottish, Polish, Indians, Pakistanis, Iranians, West Indians, Dutch, Germans, French, Chinese, Lithuanians.....

Yes - I have got some Poms living just down my road,
but despite that they are really lovely people!
(although of course I wouldnt want my daughter to marry one!)

xxxxxx mick