What's it like to live in Brixton / Brixton Borders

BRlXTON'S DEAD

some nice moments in that animation.

BRlXTON'S DEAD

Your mum's dad's god's dead. Or something.

Never knew my grandad. But I bet he wouldn't like what I saw when I went through Brixton Village the other day. Bun dat!

You still go to Brixton Village? Nerged...

I was just walking through...oh the horrors I saw TS :'(

I'm guessing it was a Sunday morning? Horror show is about right...

Horror in what way?

Awash with popinjays, trustafarians and yuppies.

Awash with popinjays, trustafarians and yuppies.

Brixton has been like that for a while. It's become the acceptable side of 'edgy' for adventurous urbanites over the past 10 years or so.

It's becoming East Dulwich...

Yes, but now it's bad, really bad. Before they were coexisting but now they have totally turned the local eco-system inside out.

awaits obligatory Markyboy post

Those who say a place is dead or over, are as bad as those they look down on for moving into their postcode and making a place over. If you feel that strongly get to fuck and head to another part of town, otherwise quiet your buzz and fix up and engage in your community, and extol the merits of the parts of Brixton that those who head straight to Brixton village may not get the chance to see/find.

Nope, I'm keeping schtum from now on...

No

Those who say a place is dead or over, are as bad as those they look down on for moving into their postcode and making a place over. If you feel that strongly get to fuck and head to another part of town, otherwise quiet your buzz and fix up and engage in your community, and extol the merits of the parts of Brixton that those who head straight to Brixton village may not get the chance to see/find.

I can't really comment because I recall a lot of changes in the area, from the riots back in the 80s to how it is today. It's changed a lot but generally not in a bad way.

Apart from seeing things like the old boys that used to sit over a single pint of Guinness for 2 hours or so and play dominoes in the pub on Coldharbour Lane opposite the Prince Albert, the one that got turned into a cocktail bar / trendy pub for students and the like.

However, it is far more gentrified today than I remember it from 20 years ago but to be fair I don't frequent Brixton that often now. Just favourite haunts like Bamboula for good Jamaican food and the Ritzy - even though the Peckham Plex is half the price and has authentic sticky carpet ;)

Don't get me wrong, I love Brixton... So much so that I don't want to live anywhere else...

I do object to long-standing businesses that are loved by the local community being pushed out in favour of some fly-by-night restaurant or café because they're willing to pay more rent... The roti van on Station Road has gone, Nour Cash & Carry are facing a 22% rent hike and the Effra's only ever any good now if the footie's on... Otherwise you may as well be at the East Dulwich Tavern...

Le Reej remains a fantastic place to troll Herne Hill's yummy mummies and rad dads...

You should have been there a few weeks ago when Twerp took his shirt off.

I hope Max's manages to survive, I love going to that place.

awaits obligatory Markyboy post

I'd hate to disappoint you...

To be honest, the whole debate is pretty pointless because most of the people who complain about gentrification will fuck off somewhere else once they think about having kids. One person on here told me flat out that she wouldn't dream of bringing up kids in Brixton because of the "quality of life" (which she failed to define). Yet she's also complained on here about Brixton losing its edge. Well fuck off, are we supposed to keep it like it was in the 80's to satisfy the tourists who pop in for a couple of years?

You know my girlfriend, Joe - born in Brixton, brought up in Brixton, brought her kids up in Brixton. I'll take her view over anyone one here about whether it's improved or not. Not everything's an improvement but, if her daughters can go out at night and feel safer than she did when she was growing up, that's a good thing. I want it to be somewhere my kids are happy, safe and proud to live - not somewhere for thrill seekers.

And people who ponce about on fixed gear bikes talking about the regrettable gentrification of a part of London that has been blighted for years...do fuck off, you haven't got a clue.

Not you of course, joe ;^)

Hehehe...

My point is, I think, that the only people I hear complaining about the place aren't here for the long term. So who cares what they think?

Mark - Cambersmell / Peckharm aren't that different. I moved to Camberwell after living just off Acre Lane for years back in the mid 90s. Funny thing was when I moved to Camberwell I thought it was a bit 'gritty' and didn't really like it in comparison to Brixton - at the time I couldn't afford the rent because it was going up.

But I've since seen around here (as a neighbour to Brixton) change a lot over the past 10 years. Not as much as Brixton but close, very close.

^^Brixton Lifer
^^^Brixton Loser.

One person on here told me flat out that she wouldn't dream of bringing up kids in Brixton because of the "quality of life" (which she failed to define). Yet she's also complained on here about Brixton losing its edge.

Utterly laughable. It's like urban-safari for the priv-kids. Mind you the Hermit's Cave in Camberwell has always been a fairly even mix of locals and art students from down the road searching for something 'authentic'. They are tolerated with good grace.