Buying/Renting property in London: Where would you live?

Brixton is fine. nice community feel.

I'm in Stoke Newington. It's also nice, church street can make you believe, if its quiet, that you are in a village. Good parks, cemetery.

But if you have the cash - a house in Canonbury would suffice.

Only people who have never actually been to a village; there's about 20 restaurants/bars, a whole food shop and some chi-chi clothes shops. It's also full of young couples with children called Noah and Fred. Nothing wrong with all that maybe but it's nothing like a village.
Also, Sainsbury's want to build a big new store down at the bottom, behind the whole food shop so Church St is going to become a traffic nightmare.