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I've lived in Islington, Highbury, Marylebone, Finsbury Park, Stepney Green and Clerkenwell, and can confirm that North/East London is filthy, crime ridden and full of cunts.
I'd rather not live there when South London is available instead, without the North London street furniture of stumbling crack-heads, moped-enabled snatch-muggers, acid-throwing youth's and the general filth and decrepitude.
I really like the place that Tenderloin posted (and which has been posted before), but it's in the middle of nowhere, relatively speaking.
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So you've never actually lived in any of the nice bits.
I agree that all the places you have lived are awful.
Swiss Cottage is an anomaly - a traffic snarled gyratory full of council estates in the middle of much nicer areas. Go west, east, north or south and everything is a vast improvement (Primrose Hill, St Johns Wood, West Hampstead, proper Hampstead, Belsize Park, etc).
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North/East London is filthy, crime ridden and full of cunts.
Everything in London west of Marble Arch and south of the river is contingent. There is no earthly reason to ever go there.
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Feel like the first one could be ok - the rest I've no idea what I'm doing
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https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/44841694
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/46931475
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spindrift
Tenderloin
If you can afford a million, spend a million and stop looking in "up and coming" and "edgy" neighbourhoods and move somewhere less crimey that's already finished. North of the river.
Somewhere where you don't necessarily need a garage because it's safe to leave nice cars on the street.
random pick: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53755428.html