I actually have some friends who live in that area, and trust me..................the people I'm referring to DON'T WORK. There are 10-12 of them living in a 3 bedroom flat in the same building. They spend days from 10am-10pm in the bookmakers gambling on roulette machines then through the night playing music and drinking, it keeps other residents awake some nights as there's often about 20 people in the house. They also loiter outside the building at all hours, conversing very loudly, in between visiting the bookmakers.

As this thread is now going off topic, and I have already apologised for assuming they were from Albania or Romania, I won't make any further comments regarding this.

Whoever they are have you reported them to the council? They sound completely anti social and dare I say, if they are sleeping 3 or 4 to the room then there must be some regulation somewhere being breached.

Just get used to it as a precursor for early next year when their friends will arrive to enjoy a similar lifestyle.

I actually have some friends who live in that area, and trust me..................the people I'm referring to DON'T WORK. There are 10-12 of them living in a 3 bedroom flat in the same building. They spend days from 10am-10pm in the bookmakers gambling on roulette machines then through the night playing music and drinking, it keeps other residents awake some nights as there's often about 20 people in the house. They also loiter outside the building at all hours, conversing very loudly, in between visiting the bookmakers.

As this thread is now going off topic, and I have already apologised for assuming they were from Albania or Romania, I won't make any further comments regarding this.

Whoever they are have you reported them to the council? They sound completely anti social and dare I say, if they are sleeping 3 or 4 to the room then there must be some regulation somewhere being breached.

Just get used to it as a precursor for early next year when their friends will arrive to enjoy a similar lifestyle.

I suspect the friends I know will end up reporting them as it's not getting any better. I'm just glad I'm 3 miles away!

Please keep further responses on the topic of the actual subject of this thread, which the update on the appeal by the Home Office regarding the judgement on the issue of the minimum income requirement for Spouse Visas.

I hope that this stays. It is not Thai related but it does have impact on all those British men and women who do not earn the minimum salary and want to bring their "law abiding" spouses to the UK.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-24911619