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Is Crouch End really that 'nice' (if nice is being able to avoid seeing deprivation)? Big areas of Catford are, not £1M nice, but genuinely nice feel, neighbourly, lots of community stuff, and also lots of curtain-twitching and tutting about hilariously minor things. Strangely I find more 'desirable' areas often more uncomfortable because the disparity is more in your face.
I don't know Crouch End and assumed it was a bit like Harringey, which is fine and doesn't feel wildly different to suburban catford except it takes longer to get to a shop. However looking at the map, if it's actually more like Highgate, then fair. That place is a magical island. Not long after I moved to London, living in Plaistow, someone recommended me a dentist in Highgate village, and I found going there a very weird experience.
Thinking about it, I guess catford just feels fairly 'normal' to me.
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if it's actually more like Highgate, then fair.
More of a budget version of Highgate. People with enough money to buy a +£1m house, but not enough to buy a Range Rover Vogue as well.
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I don't know Crouch End and assumed it was a bit like Harringey
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It is more like Highgate. It is a place middle class white people cluster to breed because there aren't many brown people and they don't have to step over homeless people to buy their bath bun from Dunns.
I say this as someone who used to live in Muswell Hill which is basically the same but up the hill, despite what people in Crouch End/Muswell Hill will tell you. Although Muswell Hill has a genuine working class white area over towards the North Circular.
They're both good for celeb spots, I used to see Maureen Lipman on the bus and Super Hans in Crouch End on a regular basis.
Muswell Hill is probably the only place I've ever been where most of the school children were taller than me. A budget version of Highgate is fair.
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I don't know Crouch End and assumed it was a bit like Harringey
Crouch End is different to Harringay. Even 30 years ago, when I lived around there, there were no edgy places in Crouch End. Crouch End has transitioned from Bohemians to Bankers without any notable teething troubles.
Edit - what @Fox said.
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There’s a bit going unsaid in this Crouch End vs Catford conversation, which is that people will generally pay up to be far away from obvious signs of deprivation, and if you have £1m you probably want to live around other people that have £1m.