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only to spend it on a small terrace in somewhere that's...sorry guys who live there...a bit...neither here nor there?
I get what you mean about Crouch End. But it’s just a really nice area to live if you have kids and don’t have to work. The day care and schools are great. There are loads of GPs (the Queenswood Medical Practice for eg is brilliant - especially if you have children). Lots of parks. Nice shops.
You shouldn’t’ stereotype, but fuck it I will anyway… you get the feeling that the yummy mummies lobby their husbands to accept the slightly shit commute based on the upsides, and given they probably work shit hours anyway, what difference does getting back a bit later make anyway?
It sort of reminds me of Vicky Park, where I imagine it works best if you WFH most of the time or occasionally make the short cycle to a studio in Hackney or at worst Shoreditch. Otherwise why would you want to pay a fortune to live somewhere miles from a tube?
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Otherwise why would you want to pay a fortune to live somewhere miles from a tube?
You could say that about all of Hackney, not just Vicky Park. I don't think you understand Hackney - we like being miles from a tube :)
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I'd imagine a lot work in the City so it's 15 minutes on the train down to Moorgate (or a quick change at Highbury and Islington if you want to head into central london).
A lot of places, Stoke Newington being the obvious example, are attractive because they're not near a tube and that impacts on who lives there.
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Uhuh. I can’t square that you can have all of this and have a spare £500k in your pocket if, say, you were prepared to live in Enfield. Or Catford.
OK maybe not the nice shops. I dunno. You get what I mean. Is it worth £500k?
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You reckon real people are actually doing it?
I can't get my head around who has access to £1m either through cash or loan only to spend it on a small terrace in somewhere that's...sorry guys who live there...a bit...neither here nor there? I guess I'm old enough to remember times when £1m was a fuck-tonne of money that really set people apart.