Hounslow is looking pretty rough these days

Living in Hounslow, West London

Why there so much rubbish everywhere in Hounslow? It seems to be common practice to dump items like fridges, beds, old rusty microwaves and stained mattresses on any available street corner or back alley. I can’t quite work out how or when they dump them, it must be pretty hard not getting seen walking along […]

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The London Borough of Hackney – the ******** of London

Living in Hackney, London

The London Borough of Hackney has always been regarded by Londoners as an utter dump, or in cockney vernacular “a ********”. In the last ten years , the media has been obsessed with the borough – claiming it has been “gentrifiied”. Of course “gentrification” was nothing more than a scheme for estate agents to charge […]

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Clem Attlee Court, Fulham, full of wannabe boxers and gangsters

Living in Clem Attlee Court, Fulham

Clem attlee court, a council estate off of the rubbish laden north end road. The place is full of wannabe boxers and gangsters most of whom are skinny, scruffy and who couldn’t punch their way out of a wet paper bag. The teenagers hang around in tracksuits spouting colourful language at vulnerable passers by. They […]

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Battersea, the ghetto of the 80’s!

Living in Battersea

I’m amazed that there isn’t an article for this on here yet! Ah Ba-a-sea (as we all called it, a local knows it has 2 t’s in the name but neither are used): the home of my formative years in the 80’s. I’ve not been back here since meeting up with a young lady for […]

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West Drayton is one of the biggest sh*tholes around

Living in West Drayton, London

WEST DRAYTON. Lived around here for years in the sleepy village of Harmondsworth. West Drayton itself is one of the biggest ********* around. Choc-a-block with ****** from neighbouring Langley and Iver, and an ever increasing presence of immigrants settling in all over the place. More coffee shops and fast food takeaways than you can shake […]

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Brockley: Hipster Dads, Goldsmiths Students, Social Housing Tenants and Dungarees

Living in Brockley

I think Brockley 10 years ago would have been a markedly different place: one bereft of the beards, the flat whites and the numerous restaurants offering an approximation of hipster haute cuisine. Now you can’t get on the overground without having your skin exfoliated by the bristles of the creatively bearded, find a “normal” coffee […]

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Leytonstone prides itself on the large number of fried chicken shops

Living in Leytonstone

Leytonstone is an area with an eclectic mix of people, an area speared through the heart by not only the motorway/A road running through it but also by the divide of South and Upper Leytonstone. 15 years I have survived here and it is not without its attractions, not just one of the greenest boroughs […]

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Hammersmith and Fulham one big awful hole

Living in Hammersmith and Fulham

This is meant to be one of nicest, most expensive boroughs of London, but it seems if you’ve not been mugged, then you will get mugged by the local estate agent, as prices to buy or let are beyond beggars belief. This manor which includes the Shepherd’s Bush ghetto, is one mass polluted, overcrowded, dirty […]

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Shepherd’s Bush: the red-headed stepchild that thought it was special

Living in Shepherd's Bush, West London

The first thing that will great you on arrival to Shepherd’s Bush is a big pile of **** on the floor. Whether it was left by a dog or a human is anyone’s guess but after living here for 2 years I can firmly say it’s probably the latter. After gingerly avoiding it – a […]

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Whitton, Twickenham…Where’s it all gone?

Living in Whitton, Twickenham

Ah Whitton, a once quiet, subtle and small area situated slyly between Hounslow and Twickenham has now become a blight on the surrounding area; even next to Hounslow. You see, after having spent the last 5-6 years living, going to school and generally going out around Whitton, I have experienced the first-hand deterioration of this […]

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