A not uncommon experience. Recently I went to a nearby estate (called a scheme up here) to look at something advertised for sale in the local paper. Same scenario - immaculate house (right down to the polished front door step), polite people, tea and home-baking offered to a complete stranger, etc etc etc. All around was neds, burned-out cars, needles, rubble, broken glass, and so on. Nightmare. Somehow one feels that these decent people deserve better, but they're doing what they think is right, I suppose, by staying put in such dumps, and who's to say they are wrong?