and of course totally inaccessible to normies anyway due to astronomical rent/housing - that's @shakahislop's self-fulfilling prophecy of representation driving realityactually notting hill is a special example as hollywood parachutes in there regularly - there's a particular tension about the way it's portrayed on film as a sort of archetypal london, but disneyfied (Paddington films, those effing terrible hugh Grant films... for example), that particular britishness of richard curtis, which is "diverse" and modern, but, erm, without black people or un-posh folks,
notting hill as the edgy farthest corner of mary poppins london
and in a way, Mcqueen's sanctification of NH history is also part of that process,and of course totally inaccessible to normies anyway due to astronomical rent/housing - that's @shakahislop's self-fulfilling prophecy of representation driving reality
in the other direction: as a brit it's fascinating to experience being in america for that reason, we have a special insight & understanding as @luka might say*,The UK is really protected from that dynamic I think given that so much of what's on tele and especially films are set in this kind of weird foreign continent, America, where almost none of the UK audience has ever been