I used to live on the Hackney/Lower Clapton border a few years ago, before gentrification. Even back then, I used to think it was rough although I used to take a kind of sadistic pleasure in informing any out of town friends visiting that we were driving down the North London murder mile while on […]
I used to live on the Hackney/Lower Clapton border a few years ago, before gentrification. Even back then, I used to think it was rough. Although I used to take a kind of sadistic pleasure in informing any out of town friends visiting, that we were driving down the North London murder mile while on […]
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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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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Romford is commonly referred to as ‘**** town’ and i’ve heard that a number of times when people have asked me where i’m from. The thing is, it’s hard to dislike Romford – it’s a slice of fried gold next door to Dagenham and gangster paradise Ilford. But, it’s notorious for a lot of really […]
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This has to be one of the hottest up-and-coming charvo- towns ever. It has everything. City planning designed for illegal motorbike riding, its very own Argos, KFC and McDiddles ‘restaurants’, a Ceaucescu-style estate, Wilkinsons, a canal to throw shopping trollies in, and rivalry with nearby loser hotspot Plumstead/Woolwich ****. The local councils have dumped thousands […]
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Slade Green is the tiniest little place in the middle of surrounding **** area’s such as Erith and Crayford, but i can’t believe it is not listed on iLiveHere because there seriously is a greater amount of ****** than there are houses! On every corner of every road you will find an Exxxxxxx family who […]
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