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

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/02/london-inequality-house-prices

Australia has never looked more appealing...

You mean Clapham right?

My mates place in Camberwell was valued at 250k about six months ago, an identical flat in the same block just went for 350k.

Madness. I might finally finish mine, sell it and move to the Bahamas and live a life of sybaritic luxury.

You mean Stoke Newington right?

I don't have a 'tache, I don't think they'd let me in.

My flat would get me into a dilapidated mansion in a conservation area in Malta

tache? More like child and job at the bbc.

Do they just give you a child now as one of the perks at the beeb?

You have to go to Salford to pick up your baby

Forget 'taches, they're too heavy.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/02/london-inequality-house-prices

That reflects what's happening in Leytonstone, the gentrification includes people moving there because they have been priced out of N1 and N16, Islington and Stokey having been cliches of gentrification for decades. This is quite a large shift in the demographic, we could see the reversal of white flight in LBTH and Newham. Anyone who bought a 3 bed flat under right-to-buy in East London in the mid nineties is now selling up and moving to a nice little bungalow in Essex, bit of garden, lovely. But who takes their place? The poor will be displaced, the locals will be priced out of the area, this being London the new arrivals will be racially mixed but not to the same degree as before. I'm not opposed to gentrification, but this is a very rapid change.

Uhnnnnnnggggh.

Uhnnnnnnggggh.

Let's face it, the stone age population of Brixton is on its way out.

Streatham.

I didn't want to hint quite so strongly that Chalfie is over the hill.

Australia has never looked more appealing...

You've clearly not lived there. :)

Mildura, Ballarat, Bendigo, etc, don't count...

You can still get business outside the Brixton Hill Sainsbury's...

Morrisons in Stokey... About 6pm one night, I guess.

I had big bags of shopping and was walking home when I was approached and asked what I was doing...

"well, I'm buying these groceries"
"don't want no fun wiv me then?"
"ah.... look, I've got icecream I need to get home"
"can I have some icecream?"

fair question... but it was chunky monkey, so no dice there either.

seemed a decent fella though

Classy fella.

I once got offered a "cuddle" by a crack whore (the wire being my reference) outside Herne Hill station at about 11 on a Tuesday morning. She followed me down the underpass and continued to attempt a cuddle but was really attempting to extract my wallet from my back pocket. I called her bluff and sent her packing. I had to move to Mare St soon after as HH just seemed too dangerous and sleazy after that.

#csb #itsallpramsandlattesnow

Australia has never looked more appealing...

In that video he walks right down your street !

^ I know... But £400k for a house on Effra Parade? You are having a laugh, mate... Inca at no.8 sold his entire building to the family who live there now for £400K and that was three years ago!

Bit sad that he picked on the pattie shop and the burrito place in Granville Arcade, the pattie shop (best patties in Brixton along with First Choice Bakery) is run by West Indian locals and the Irish fella that owns Panzón has been doing his thing in the area for almost ten years... BITD he used to do two burritos for a fiver on a Monday night in the Hobgoblin...

Can't argue with him tho', I went to a coupla big Jah Shaka blues parties at Dick Sheppard when I was in my teens... Scary as a skinny little white boy but fucking awesome fun...

I love hearing the reggae blasting out of Brixton's back streets during the summer, a much rarer thing now...

Not today - it's Splash.

Anyone else getting really fed up with it all?