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YOUNG MAN: As I look down, I can see an empty beer keg,

standing beside a plastic bucket, full of...I don't know what.

And, looking out further,

a melange of undergrowth and rubbish,

and rocks and bricks and concrete,

and shoes.

And then, in the distance, the marvellous vista of the motorway.

(GLUMLY) It's like a dream come true.

CROAKING

SNORTING

TRUMPETING

CLUCKING

TWEET

BARKING AND MEOWING

GRUNT

What's the...what's the neighbourhood like round here, both of you?

YOUNG MAN: # Down in the ghetto...

# That's where the life is so... #

YOUNG MAN: We don't live in the ghetto. It's the inner city.

It's an urban redevelopment scheme.

The council really wants to know...

Urban. Remember. State the word.

NORTH-COUNTRY WOMAN: This is one of the best neighbourhoods you could live. It's handy for town.

Also to the local village at Stockton Heath.

So, I just love living here.

I have done since the first day we moved in...

especially because of the people who live around here.

(CHUCKLES) But that's er... Forget that bit.

(LAUGHS)

GEORDIE MAN: I know it's not mine. It's beyond my wildest dreams, cos it's really upmarket.

And I'm not kidding - I would never have dreamt in a million years, when I was in Newcastle,

that I would be living in a place like this.

WOMAN: It's a lot better. MAN: Much nicer.

Bigger. Yeah. A lot more room.

More garden. Nice to have a garden.

And dare I say it? More than one loo!

(LAUGHS)

CHILD: My dream house would be like...really modern-day.

There would be an elevator to go upstairs,

cos my feet get tired going up to bed, and I just like...

I have to keep on climbing it every hour.

WEST-COUNTRY MAN: That wall there, for about three foot up, was...

running with water when we moved in,

and I was a long while trying to work out why.

No, no, no, no, no. No.

No. What a stupid question! (LAUGHS)

Damp problem?

No, I don't think so.

And what do you mean by that, kind sir?

What do you mean? Substance? Substance? What is a substance?

Subsidence. Subsidence.

Sub-side-nce. Sub-side-nce?

Yeah. You lean? (LAUGHS)

Yeah, I'm lean! Yeah, I've got a leaning problem. Yeah.

No, no, no, he mean, if...

What you mean?

Subsidence? We don't get any subsidence here.

SECOND MAN: Nothing here at all.

I'm not sure...I think...

I'm not sure why. I don't think we get it here.

WELL-SPOKEN MAN: I mean, some people lay stones on sand, but I don't agree with that.

I lay stones on clay, which is what is underneath,

and I use the Italian system of ramming it in sideways

when it's moist...

and then jumping on it.

Jumping and jumping and jumping. You can actually cause yourself varicose veins if you do that.

MIDDLE-AGED MAN: And it was built by boys who knew how to build houses in the 1950s.

Cos that's built with brick. See?

A lot of these houses, you see, now, they're just thrown up.

This one was built, putting one brick on top of the other.

So, I think I'm here permanent now.

Absolutely permanent.

ELDERLY WOMEN: I've been here for over two years now.

Yes, I've been here about two years.

I've been here four years. Oh, I think I'm longer than you.

I... Oh, you would have, yes. I became...

I'm not sure how long I've been.

You were here when I came. I've been here four years.

About three or four years.

I can't remember.

But I think I've been longer than two years - I'm sure of that.

You have been, yes.

ELDERLY WOMAN: Well, it's just nice to know...

Like, I come here, and there's people like me...

There's a few hundred. Well, a few...

Yes, a few. And they're all the same.

We're all here for the same purpose.

Companionship. That's it.

Friendship. Conversation.

We talk about past lives sometimes. Future.

What we're gonna do tonight.

Monday, I wait for Thursday. Thursday, I wait for Monday.

No, I didn't say that. No, I know you didn't, but...

I said to one of them, "Did you have a nice weekend..."

CLANG Hmm.

But we did say that... I mean, we quite like it here, don't we?

We did say, if we win the Lottery, we'd put in a swimming pool, and we'd be quite happy here.

Like, somewhere warm in the winter, and then come back here in the summer.

Spain. Spain?

Algarve. Southern Spain.

I haven't given it too much thought. Miami would be nice.

When you pass people down here, you smile and say, "Good morning."

You wouldn't do that in Newcastle.

In Newcastle they'd think you were soft.

I mean, you just didn't do that. People just walked past each other and bumped into each other.

But down here, it's just nice and friendly, you know.

I mean...

It's great.

It's friendly, although we don't...

..mix.

No, that ain't the right word. We don't...

..walk in and out of each other's houses.

But everybody's friendly. Everybody speaks when you see them.

No, I can't think of anything I really dislike about it.

WOMAN: Well, you don't know what's round the corner, but I don't want to move.

MAN: Well, the shops are round the corner.

What do you mean, the shops are round the corner?

Well, there's the hairdressers, the shoe shop...

The clothes shop and post office. What's that got to...

Well, you said you never know what's round the corner, and I do.

I do know what's round the corner.

Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna move no more.

It's too hard work, for one thing! (LAUGHS)

This is where we are. We'll finish up here.

I like it, anyway.

WELL-SPOKEN MAN: What would I say I like about this neighbourhood?

The views. I mean, the views are just...

sunset to sunrise, sunrise to sunset.

Wonderful views.

WOMAN: Oh, here comes the rain.

Oh, dear.

Do you think it'll go? It seems to be.

It may just be a passing drop.

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WOMAN: Er...what next? Bedroom, with a big leak in the roof.

CHILD: No. We don't know where it comes from,

cos nobody's bothered to look.

Of course, I'd like to call myself...lucky.

But having your house struck by lightning on the day you move in...

It seems to me that that ain't such a lucky thing.

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