Living in London
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- nUBBER0
thanks milo
- Gordy220
I live in Bethnal Green; bit of a dive by all accounts but so close to everything and you get more for your money than living a half mile up the road in Shoreditch...
- paraselene0
bethnal green is good. and at least y'all have the tube there.
- clint0
around church street in stoke newington is great.
don't go to islington, full of over priced pseudo upmarket restaurant frequented by stiff middle class twats pretending to be left wing liberals.
shoredtich used to be great but slowly morphing into the above.
hackney is great, full of hidden treasures.
and mosques...
- milo0
No problem, I've lived all over North London & Stokey's the only place I've really felt at home..
Give's you a good insight into all that's going on.
- normal0
Hackney near London fields is nice as broadway market offers a lot in the way of dining and drinking in addition to having the park nearby to lounge in on rare hot summer days. I saw three tennants super drinking street alcoholics arguing outside of a pub there while some newly moved in hipsters stared on in disbelief. The SA's turned to them and said, 'Welcome to hackney'. But I like my turf a bit rough anyways keeps the twats away so I for one welcome our new Tennants drinking overlords.
Islington is a gentrified white wash and boooring.
Though it's cool to be hater on shoreditch (all the while living there) it still offers the best nightlife in London. Beats the freakin' townies in West London.
South of the Thames is non-existent in my mind. Everyone that moves there never gets seen or heard from again.
I've lived in Stoke Newington for about 4 years now and love that as well. Abney Park is one of my favorite parks in London even though I'm not gay. You get all sorts around here and there are some alright boozers and good dining.
So my choices would be Hackney/Stoke Newington/Bethnal Green/Dalston they're cheap and fun, you can buy booze all night most places and there is a lawlessness to the night life.
- paraselene0
South of the Thames is non-existent in my mind. Everyone that moves there never gets seen or heard from again.
normal
(Jul 22 05, 04:17)i must admit i am in constant fear of disappearing.
*whimper
- ********0
did anyone hear something? just there? nope? yeah it was probaby nothing.
- nUBBER0
thanks for all the comments they have been useful...
- paraselene0
laugh?
woteva. my front door only needs one (1) lock. worth disappearing over says i.
- paraselene0
that last post wasn't directed at you, nub.
*wink
good luck in your search.
- rasko40
who the fuck would want to live in Old St? its a shithole and full of cocks, I would turn suicide bomber if I lived there.
They wear top hats to bars for fucks sake
- paraselene0
rasko, you are always a fucking ray of sunshine. haha! top hats!
- nUBBER0
ok then rasko whats your prime spot of choice?
- Chimp0
Yeah I always disapear when I go to work south of the River. It does seem a bit cut off same with Hackney.
Loads of young people live in Hackney and it has a good vibe, also close to Shorditch. But no tube and buses take ages to get anywhere. Still I have lots of freinds over there and they don't seem to mind.
I'm a bit biased towards Highbury. Not really the 3 wheeled push chairs you get in Angle, (skt, I know you want one) Also one stop from Kings X and 10 mins on the bus to Old St.
I would either live in East or North London
- O_Two0
Whilst painting live at a gig at 93Feet east last weekend I met a girl, I only wish I knew how to post the photo I have of her.
She was wearing what appeared to be a Luftwaffe Commander's hat combo'ed with a pair of giant aviators.
She looked like she woke up in the middle of the night, couldn't find any light switches, stumbled around, accidently covered herself in tar, rolled around in her mum's amateur dramatics costumes box and just left the house.
I asked her if I could take her photo, and she gave me this ridiculous vibe like *sigh* "I'm not trying to get attention by dressing like this, I'm just expressing myself." *another sigh* Shyeah, like dressing up as a nine year old with attention deficit hyper disorder who's parents have left it on it's own for 3 weeks is an instinctual behaviour.
I love it. East London is great.
- ********0
Accross the road at cafe 101 on Sunday there arrived a group of italian boys and girls that looked straight out of an early prince video. So much entertainment.
- Chimp0
Sounds better than Vauxhall. I saw a dog lick another dogs piss off the floor while it was still warm.
- dc_again0
i've live in angel, new cross, croydon (well, it's kind of london), bow, chiswick, tower hill, fulham and now teddington, and teddington is the only place that i would ever consider settling down in. it's freakin gorgeous. we have the river, grass, trees, beer gardens, birds (other than pigeons) and no graffitti, and i'm at work in Covent Garden in 45 minutes.
- nUBBER0
"chimp"
lets see the pic of that bird then...