I've had a lot of harassment from my neighbours and am looking for
some advice?

for all information:

http://swanseavalley.wordpress.com/

------------------------------------

for short info:

Title: The twist in the tail - why did they prejudge me and why do
they have such prejudice in the Swansea Valley

As a young man buying my first home and moving away from my family, I
hoped that I had chosen a good place to live. The house and garden
needed renovation but I had the energy to get on with everything
(slowly ) and to make an excellent place to live. The house is a very
old (1852) stone built cottage type property, there is a lot of land
with it and living in the country has always been a dream of mine.

I imagined that the people in the country were going to be very
friendly and much more easy going than city people. I really thought
that the area I was moving to was a nice place and somewhere I could
settle down. I believed that living in the country would be less
stress and that one day when I had finished the house that I might
meet a girl and even start a family there.

The reality was nothing like I had imagined. My direct next door
neighbour was completely prejudice towards me and did not like me. He
systematically said things about me to all the other neighbours (even
before I got there I imagine) and made up lies that I was a rough
person from a rough area and bla bla bla. I heard him talking badly
about me to one neighbour and not long after I started to get grief
from that person. He turned everyone against me this way and he
enjoyed doing it.

Instead of my neighbours being friendly to me they would stare at me,
glare at me and look down at me as if I was not wanted there. They
were the opposite of nice to me, they were horrible. Because of the
extreme prejudice I received, I now look at the place as a horrible
place. The people need to be educated and the harassment, bullying and
intimidation needs to be looked into. The pontardawe police and the
neath port talbot council support the people who are prejudice instead
of helping the victim.

The pathetic and cowardly bullying that became worse and worse for me
made me decide to sell up, but this is where there is the twist in the
tail - I have now found out that my Great Grandfather lived in
Ystradgynlais, my Grandfather was born there and the lived on a farm
there until he was 10 years old. I was more of a local than the people
who were giving me the worst grief. The locals never really gave me a
chance and never talked to me normally to get to know me. If I had
been given a chance they would have realised that I was just a normal
and a good person. If they had any problems with me I would have
listened and done something to put it right. They always said to my
face that they had no problem with me but they were lying.

The truth is that they didn’t want a single man living there, they
wanted a family or a retired couple or similar. Because they had
prejudged me wrongly from the start and because they always had bad
thoughts about me, they could never see me for the real person that I
am. They wanted me out and I would never stay where I am not wanted.
Once I knew for sure that they were intimidating me and that they were
prejudice, I decided to go.

But I am a writer, I love to write and every time I was given grief I
would write everything down. By writing down my thoughts I would feel
better. I now have so much material that I am writing a book. They say
that from a bad situation comes good and this experience that I have
gone through is now a part of my life and I will no doubt write a lot
about it as the years go by.

I hope to help others and to help the people living in the Swansea
valley to change for the better. I have no revenge and no hatred for
what happened to me, that’s not the way I am or ever will be. Help
they need and I really wish that they can change their ways for the
better.

---------------------------------------
Prejudice needs to be stamped out in the Swansea valleys.

My Swansea Valley neighbour intimidation, harassment and prejudice.
When I asked for help from the
police and council, informed them I had been intimidated and harassed
they ignored me.

The problems in cilmaengwyn, ystalyfera, godrergraig, neath port
talbot. neighbours ganging up against another and making them feel
bullied, this should be stopped.

swanseavalley

http://swanseavalley.wordpress.com/

why did they prejudge me and why do they have such prejudice
in the Swansea Valley

A) they're welsh.

Until you have several generations (enough so that no-one alive
locally is old enough to remember when you weren't there) in the local
cemetery, you're an outsider.

swanseavalley wrote:
I've had a lot of harassment from my neighbours and am looking for
some advice?

for all information:

http://swanseavalley.wordpress.com/

------------------------------------

Some people are reluctant to open unknown links. I syggest you post the
relevant info. directly here, while trying to keep it concise in the first
onstance.

--
joe Lee

I can understand what your saying and agree with it, but the worst
grief I had was actually from non local people who had moved there,
outsiders themselves really. English people, people who came from
further than Swansea. I believe the real locals have more prejudice
towards Swansea people than anyone else imo..

http://swanseavalley.wordpress.com/


Colin Wilson wrote:
why did they prejudge me and why do they have such prejudice
in the Swansea Valley

A) they're welsh.

Until you have several generations (enough so that no-one alive
locally is old enough to remember when you weren't there) in the local
cemetery, you're an outsider.