What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

My formative late teen/early twenties were spent in that neck of the woods. I lived in a flat above what is now the uke shop on Hanbury street in '98-'99. It was a fun, cool place to hang out and live but it was still also very much "just another slightly scuzzy bit of London'. As were all the other places we could afford to live such as Finsbury Park, Hackney Central, Haggerston, Dalston, Tufnell Park, Stokie etc. It's a theme park now. The new Leicester Square.

The saddest thing is the only affordable places left are Edmonton and Forest Gate. And they're not even scuzzy - just shit.