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The problem with knocking down the multi-storey car park in Popes Road was that it hurt a lot of market trader's pockets, some businesses are complaining of a 40% drop in business... People are going to Tesco instead, which suits the council just fine... They're apparently opening another branch on CHL, in the unit where Brixton Cycles was BITD... Cuz the one in Long Acre is too far away, right?
I believe Tesco were to blame for Streatham closing down as that's being turned into a mega-superstore/ice rink/bowling alley/shopping centre... Conspiracy?
Antic London is still trading, they're selling off all their pubs outside London AFAIK... I just don't like that they're calling it the Effra Social... But if it confuses the Clapham helmets, and sends them there instead of the Effra Hall, that may be a good thing...
I've been meaning to go down to the ice rink and watch some hockey, looks like fun...
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Two blokes in the Effra last night were discussing buying a Fulham townhouse for £750k. It wasn't Patrick. Oh and every other bloke in there had to ask directions for the toilets.
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I had heard that about the parking spaces too but like the ice rink, I didn't see it used so much. The Tesco/Sainsbogs invasion is getting beyond a joke. The metros and locals seem to be springing up like weeds. I'm no hypocrite, I will do a big shop in some supermarket or other because it is cheaper but I like to buy things like eggs, bread, milk, beer, snacks, last minute stuff etc from the local shops and their convenience outweighs the price. There is a new Tesco metro at Loughborough junction for gods sake. There are 5 local shops that have survived there side by side for years. Supersaver Express has been owned by the same family for 30 years, the Costcutter dude is one of my favourite people on the area, but I don't know if they will survive.
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In other news... Wow!
Reverend Billy & Save the Nour Cash & Carry Gospel Choir 1/27/13 - YouTube
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doesn't this conversation happen every 6 months?
With the same cast of character, aye
Yeah it does...
We all know Brikky will never quite be hip, too near the/full of sloanes.
Suburban whining thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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Almost ran over Patrick the other day near the market (he stepped out into the road without looking). The look of contempt he gave me.
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The Somerleyton Road development plans are a bit strange too. Oval Theatre House are moving in which is good. Effra EYC is expanding, which is good, but some strange community development company who seem entirely unaccountable are claiming to be controlling it all...
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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 ;^)
Says the bloke who moved in from Clapham
/lowblow
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Says the bloke who moved in from Clapham
/lowblow
Low blow insofar as, yes, I moved in from Clapham when my wife divorced me and I gave her the house we owned so she could live there and look after the children without financial worries. On the other hand, I was living in Brixton since the mid 80s when you were presumably at school in Surrey.
Did you know where the toilets were instinctively the first time you went to the Effra?
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[QUOTE=Markyboy;3379380]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.
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