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The future of East London
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Originally posted by sunnysan View PostDoes anybody have any thoughts on the future of East London.
Property pirces sky high, slow gentrification but at the end of the day it is still the East End and has a large proportion of skag heads, nutters and gangs etc.
In 10 years time, will it have nice little coffee shops and pattiseries or will it still be a ghetto?
So this little area is starting to look a lot cleaner than when I moved in, but there are also areas which are not so pleasent. The Factory which now has small industrialised units still has broken windows and is dirty. The Council Flat blocks are still pig ugly.Comment
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Originally posted by zathras View PostUp where I am (North Shoreditch)
I like the East of the city. Every address in London that I have ever lived at I have made sure that there was an "E" in the postcode.
OK it has changed a lot in the twenty or so years that I have been here and there are still a few areas that I would not want to walk around. It is an area of extreme contrasts, you have the sink estates and the rich people's new developments, and not a lot in between (until you get out beyond zone 3). 25 years ago, all you had were the sink estates and a few pockets of professional people in places like Whitechapel and Bow, so there has been a lot of progress and I am optimistic about its future. (I don't intend to stay here beyond the end of next year though)Comment
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Not all of it I hope, I grew up in Bow, round the Roman Rd Market area, went to Stepney Green School. There is still loads of council housing, though gentrification is happening, its not everywhere.
It would be boring if it was full of arty-farty poofta types.Politicians are wonderfull people, as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, like working for a living!Comment
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victoria park, hackney
i think that is the best place to live in east london
its already got the little pavement cafes and decent pubs
its also walkable to the square mile, walkable to canary wharf
its near shoreditch
admittedly its not far from murder mile either
on victoria park rd you have million pound houses next to council flats - due to the bombing flight path in WW2
...and you're right on one of the best parks in central London where they do the stella artois film festival in the summer
i loved it there!Comment
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Originally posted by chicane View PostLook at virtually every town and city elsewhere in the country for your answer. There will always be a roughly equal proportion of decent people and scummy people, and the distribution of decent to scummy areas will reflect this.
Therefore, for East London to be full of pleasant coffee shops and boutiques, West London would have to take something of a fall. Despite what our esteemed government would like you to believe, London 2012 will do little to change this.
Good point, where are all the people that you don't want to live in the East End going to move to? You can't move them all to Dagenham or Basildon (unless the people that live there now move out into new homes Prescott was supposed to build along the Thames floodplain).
To the east for the trend in gentrification in the inner part of zone 2 to continue (which I agree it will, its too close to the square mile not to), zones 3 to 5 will probably ghettoise (or de-gentrify) even further, if thats possible, e.g. crapholes like Barking and Ilford.
I can't see how the Olympic facilities will hugely change the demographic of the people living in zones 3-5, apart from pockets of new build stuff.
Yes, some brave young professionals will swallow estate agent spiel peddled in the Evening Standard property section and buy new flats in gated complexes. But they'll be living in an almost South African style devoid of any sense of shared "community".
After a few years eventually they'll move out to zone 6 and beyond to towns either just inside or outside the M25 for their own safety and to bring up kids, etc.Comment
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