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Has any of you joined the street life forum in your area
Ours is really friendly with loads of info like a mini vv

I joined ours, but it is a bit cliquey. Maybe it is the area I live in, Saundra, but there is lots of gardening and craft and gluing and sticking and those kind of things.

I probably spend more time than I should already online - I think VV and Facebook are enough for me xx

Yes Saundra I got the most beautiful pair of curtains from Streetlife. Worth a fortune cost me £50

Plus I got rid of a clothes airer on it too

I am thinking of asking for gardener recommendations

I've never heard of it!

I joined ours and it is quite interesting to read about happenings in the area where you live

lissie.

Yes, hubby and I both joined our Streetlife. There are some very nice people on there, but there are some rather odd people who seem to take the huff at practically everything. I feel that it could get too much what with Twitter, Facebook and the forums I visit too.

Have had an invite to join but not done anything about it yet

People who are experienced in using various forums (fora??) know that there has to be a bit of give and take. They allow others to express their opinion and know not to take things personally. I find that Streetlife is bringing in a lot of people (in our area anyway) who are not experienced in using chat forums and they don't like it when someone expresses an opinion which doesn't exactly coincide with their own opinion.

An example of this is one woman was giving a list of places to dine in the area which she could take her dogs into. After a few suggestions from others I simply said that I would not want to go and dine in a place where there were dogs (plural). She got quite hysterical about this and ended up getting the Admin to delete my post, which they said was "personal and offensive".

There are good aspects of it, but also you have to wade through quite a lot of pettiness.

That's daft Rodo I'm a dog lover but understand that many are not