Hackney – Be careful what you wish for

Is Hackney a nice place to live or is Hackney rough?

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 […]

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Is Hackney a nice place to live or is Hackney rough?

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 […]

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Leytonstone prides itself on the large number of fried chicken shops

Is Leytonstone a nice place to live or is Leytonstone rough?

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’

Is Romford a nice place to live or is Romford rough?

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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Bexleyheath

Ah Bexleyheath. There have been several posts already on this wonder of a town, yet I feel that no one is summing it up well enough. FIRST A POINT- IF YOU WRITE IN TEXT YOU ARE A ****. THIS IS NOT OPEN FOR DEBATE. SENDING IN THINGS IN TEXT MAKES YOU AN ILLITERATE ******* THEREFORE […]

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Thamesmead, one of the hottest up-and-coming charvo towns ever

Is Thamesmead a nice place to live or is Thamesmead rough?

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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sidcup (the highstreet, the station, the sidcup ares near new eltham,albany park

sidcup is a ********..my local fish n chips shop got held at gunpoint, theres lds ov groups ov bois and girls all over the place settin cars alight, havin fights, smashin things, robbing ppl, even the albanians that come down from bromley come down to rob ppl, theres always kids lookin 4 fights all over […]

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