Where to live in London?
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
While Leo is definitely right, then I think in Brixton's case it's getting pretty undeniable. Obviously Foxtons opening their first branch in a neighbourhood is a pretty massive clue as to what's happening, but even before I left two years back, it was becoming steadily gentrified (where gentrification to me means, at least in part, opening services that exclude through price and design large swathes of the community, rather than the good kind of modernisation that improves existing services/opens things up to more people).
Brixton used to be 400pm territory - couldn't say for sure but I very much doubt it now. As to Tottenham, don't be put off -first of all it's a pretty large and diverse place. I personally think Haringey around Green Lanes is a good area (and I think Mr Tea among others would back me up here) - going from your desiderata (is that the right word?), loads of cheap food, great pubs, genuine diversity (as in, unlike Brixton, different kinds of people to be found inside places, sharing space and not just on the street), good access to most places including central (it's on the Piccadilly line, goes straight to Holborn). I've never shared a house there, so not sure what costs there would be for that, but I think it would be reasonable.
@luka - Tooting is really nice, but I'd never ever live on the northern line (if I needed to take the tube). Hellish in the morning.
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Slothrop
Tight but Polite
Harringay Green Lanes is a great area, although it tends towards friendly and respectable rather than buzzing and edgey. There are useful night buses for going out but you haven't got club nights on your doorstep like you would have in Brixton or Dalston or somewhere. I remember a lot of early morning schleps along City Road to get back to the 341 route.
Everything else about it is great, though.
Everything else about it is great, though.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Equally, if you wanna go out in Dalston/anywhere along the A10, it's fairly easy to get to from there
Stamford Hill is actually quite nice too, thinking about that road.
Stamford Hill is actually quite nice too, thinking about that road.
john eden
male pale and stale
Would recommend the Urban 75 forums for Brixton info.
Still a Green Lanes / Stamford Hill loyalist myself.
But Tottenham/Walthamstow are cool too and cheaper.
sufi
lala
I fled unreasonable rent in brixton C2006 (according to this thread!), then left a wake of suspiciously high leccy bills in ganja smelling dodgy sub-lets in Dalston a few years later towards ...
- Sunny Palmers Green
unaware of it's own ironies,& of course green lanes right through the middle, also New river and the tory mega-brutalism of North Circular, with it's IDP squatter settlements sheltering beneath.
surrounding areas are interesting too - north into pleasantly leafy greater enfield, southgate & so on, east towards edmonton, which is i reckon even more apocalyptic than peckham
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shiels
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Appreciate this info everyone.
I saw that stuff about foxton's and read up on it on that urban75 forum, they do seem like greedy cunts. i'm still gonna try and line up a view viewings in brixton.
i stayed up around finsbury park, manor house area last week and i liked it. i'll check around green lanes too. everyone tells me their area is the best! rep your ends etc.
I saw that stuff about foxton's and read up on it on that urban75 forum, they do seem like greedy cunts. i'm still gonna try and line up a view viewings in brixton.
i stayed up around finsbury park, manor house area last week and i liked it. i'll check around green lanes too. everyone tells me their area is the best! rep your ends etc.
viktorvaughn
Well-known member
My sister's in Walthamstow and loves it. Enough gentrification for decent coffee and a few places to eat, some nice pubs (The Broadies one is near by) but not loads of nobheads. Good transport links and hackney a 15 min cycle away for weekend pottering.
shiels
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The place im escaping has 3 days of recreational rioting every July just down the road, would make me feel at home I suppose
Fair enough warning heeded!
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
what price range are you looking at Shiels? You might have said upthread but my bleary eyes this morning can't find it
benjybars
village elder.
yeah man tottenham high street is quality
bit dodgy at night maybe but just cycle everywhere and you'll be fine. probably.
i lost my virginity in N17 so will always have a special place in my heart..
sufi
lala
yeah i'd also say Bruce Grove is not so bad (edmonton is a lot worse in terms of hopeless deprivation and poverty. urban desolation etc)
it has a castle, and some nice old buildings, it's own strong identity, & isn't dominated by chain stores, quick trains to hackney and liverpool st for your hipster moments & easy access to green lanes on the w4 hail & rude country bus
it has a castle, and some nice old buildings, it's own strong identity, & isn't dominated by chain stores, quick trains to hackney and liverpool st for your hipster moments & easy access to green lanes on the w4 hail & rude country bus
Someone from Bruce Grove tried to rob me last night, out here in Groningen. He got up close, had phone in his hand in my pocket but I somehow managed to knock it out of his hand and catch it. Luckily, no knife or gun involved and my phone has no password and all my logins, so this was a close escape.