an even worse one if possible , the true offense such estates commit against their population : the psychological effect on people of being stranded in a place where you literally can not see a way out : where you cant see a main road or a bus route even from the end of your street ; where its hard to direct a taxi or visitor to within half a mile of your house or flat ; where those whove lived here all their lives can still get lost ; where what you see around you is the collapse into squalor of a built environment not maintained and a planted environment literally gone to seed .