Streatham...

[Leon]

Is beautiful and I love it.

[dogmatique]

Weirdo.

[Dubversion]

i like living there very much, partly because it's a leafy quiet place near to all the noisy places i like going to :)

[Belushi]

I used to live there, cant say I thought much of it.

[dolly's gal]

i used to live there too. grew to quite like it.

not a patch on hackney however.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

OP is strange

[CharlieAddict]

streatham as in tooting bec common is well nice.

[rennie]

streatham is the wrong side of the south circular.

[Leon]

Losers.

[DJ Bigga]

I lived in St Reatham for years and thought it :cool: ish

[rennie]

Losers.

i'm only one person!

[Streathamite]

Is beautiful and I love it.
so do I! I have a common 5 mins walk away
(charlieAddict - it's THAT common!)
a lot of peace.
some Ok pubs, restaurants etc when I want them, and 3 overland connections

[saucisson]

I really like the rookery at the top of streatham common, obv part of the grounds of what was once a massive stately house. On christmas morning two years ago went for a walk with my mum and my daughter up there. There was an old guy drinking brew but in some sort of christmas spirit he was tipping it into a plastic glass and toasting the sun (it was a crispy bright morning)...made and still makes me smile.

[arty]

I used to quite like living there, but are you sure about "beautiful"?

[g force]

Dunno about beautiful, what with the A23 going tghrough it, but the Common is nice and there's plenty of shops, plus good transport links. And it's cheaper to live there than some surrouding areas.

[Gramsci]

A lot of the Poles I work with live in Streatham.Ive heard there are now lots of them them living in Streatham now.

[gaijingirl]

Not just Streatham (although especially so there) but also in Norwood/Tulse Hill and also in the convenience stores near the Hobgoblin, you'll notice posters in windows advertising Polish food. The language is close enough to Croatian that gaijinboy can understand the posters... something about "you can buy delicious/good Polish food here". And certainly in my local they have a small shelf of Polish goods.

[ScallyWag II]

i loved my time in streatham, lived in streatham vale for a couple of years, moved to Tooting for the next ten, then back to Streatham...hill next time, was a good place, i liked it anyway

[Streathamite]

A lot of the Poles I work with live in Streatham.Ive heard there are now lots of them them living in Streatham now.
yup - there is a HUGE polish community, in fact I have 2 in my house. many of the shops have signs reproduced in polish

[BrixiSteve]

I like Streatham too. However, I remember watching one of those 're-location, re-location' type programmes a while back and one of the couples were moving away from Streatham. During the course of the programme they announced that Streatham High Road is the most violent high road in England...? Is this true? I have to say that the only time I have seen anyone being mugged was on this very road. Usually, though, I feel less stressed on a trip to Streatham than I do to our very own Brixton. Oh, I don't know what to think anymore...!:confused:

[wrysmile]

I like Streatham too. However, I remember watching one of those 're-location, re-location' type programmes a while back and one of the couples were moving away from Streatham. During the course of the programme they announced that Streatham High Road is the most violent high road in England...? Is this true? I have to say that the only time I have seen anyone being mugged was on this very road. Usually, though, I feel less stressed on a trip to Streatham than I do to our very own Brixton. Oh, I don't know what to think anymore...!:confused:

I wouldn't trust a location programme to be correct on crime stats. If you're especially interested, you can look at crime figures for most boroughs on the met's website, not sure they break it down any further than that ... but if you were concerned, the local police could easily tell you if it's a trouble spot. 'Most violent in England' is a fair call though, I'd be surprised, tbh.

[dogmatique]

During the course of the programme they announced that Streatham High Road is the most violent high road in England...? Is this true?

Absolute crock of shit.

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I like Streatham too. However, I remember watching one of those 're-location, re-location' type programmes a while back and one of the couples were moving away from Streatham. During the course of the programme they announced that Streatham High Road is the most violent high road in England...? Is this true? I have to say that the only time I have seen anyone being mugged was on this very road. Usually, though, I feel less stressed on a trip to Streatham than I do to our very own Brixton. Oh, I don't know what to think anymore...!:confused:

It's a very long road isn't it? It might have the most violence on the road as a whole, spread out over a bigger length.

I'm sure Leicester Square is the most viokent spot in London though.

[Streathamite]

Absolute crock of shit.
<applause>
it's utter balls.

[SubZeroCat]

I've lived in Streatham for 3 weeks now and I like it :)

I can't wait til it's proper summer so I can read and sunbathe on the common :cool:

[Fingers]

Just escaped from Streatham after a year, really grew to hate it with a passion, souless place that goes on forever, having said that I felt fairly safe there

[BrixiSteve]

Ok, gotcha, a load o rubbish.