Croydon: Is it really that bad?

[DaveCinzano]

Spotted this in my boy's comic last night:

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I kind of want to frame that one. I just can't remember if I have it in the attic somewhere. I'd kick myself if I bought it for £7 and then found I already had one.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I kind of want to frame that one. I just can't remember if I have it in the attic somewhere. I'd kick myself if I bought it for £7 and then found I already had one.

Let's be clear: have you just bought a copy for £7?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Let's be clear: have you just bought a copy for £7?

Not yet. Why?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I have changed my opinion of Croydon actually, having recently discovered it. Before I'd only driven through it, and consequently thought it was hideous. But recently I've explored it on foot and it's ok! It's loads more convenient for shopping than central London if you live on the edges of Brixton/Streatham, being only 15 mins on the train from Streatham Hill station. That massive shopping centre has everything.

If you explore a little bit and don't just take it at face value with the dreadful reputation it has, there are quite a lot of hidden gems and history. The Croydon Museum is excellent - we went there on a workshy. There are loads of restaurants and indian foodstores on the road to Croydon from Norbury onwards, and it's close to the countryside, and of course Brighton.

It's not stunning by any means, and I wouldn't want to hang out in the centre of Croydon of a night, but it'd be an ok place to live especially if your social life is based in Central London and you didn't hang out there all the time.

Sounds like you have only been west and centre. Some of it is stunning. As top cat said most of the parks are brilliant and range from regular park, to scrub, to woods to wilderness. A regular drive through Croydon diverts you from anything good, and there it little to like about the town centre. Though the pub on Surrey street and the art café bar place just off it are great.

 

[hash tag]

LLoyds PArk was always a fave, as was Addington hills until the Trams started running through it.
"Is Croydon that bad?" Well, if you measure how good a town is by the quality of it's pond shops...
99p Stores In Croydon Fined For 'Urine Coated' Products

BTW is it time to make Croydon a City?

 

[Guineveretoo]

LLoyds PArk was always a fave, as was Addington hills until the Trams started running through it.
"Is Croydon that bad?" Well, if you measure how good a town is by the quality of it's pond shops...
99p Stores In Croydon Fined For 'Urine Coated' Products

BTW is it time to make Croydon a City?

I genuinely thought you were making a joke about the fact that Croydon has shops selling accessories for people with ponds!!




But no, it will never be time for Croydon to be a city!

 

[DaveCinzano]

I genuinely thought you were making a joke about the fact that Croydon has shops selling accessories for people with ponds!!

Could be a great way to entice an experienced former parliamentarian looking for a new seat

 

[Poi E]

BTW is it time to make Croydon a City?

Take it that is meant in a humorous vein given how many times they've tried and failed to have it so declared. It's a fucking dormitory suburb for London. It is unlikely to become a commercial or technical hub; the big companies have left and they mostly missed the boat on tech stuff. Perhaps they might get on with converting the empty office space to flats.

 

[goldenecitrone]

BTW is it time to make Croydon a City?

A city? Nah. A reservoir? Possibly.

 

[ffsear]

Take it that is meant in a humorous vein given how many times they've tried and failed to have it so declared. It's a fucking dormitory suburb for London. It is unlikely to become a commercial or technical hub; the big companies have left and they mostly missed the boat on tech stuff. Perhaps they might get on with converting the empty office space to flats.

Clearly

Croydon rents set to surge by 63 per cent by 2017

'A historic day for Croydon': Westfield/Hammerson given green light after long road to regeneration

Croydon: the London borough with start-up ambitions - FT.com

 

[BigMoaner]

croydon is a great place to live. still cheap in many areas.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I bought my place for 305 eight years ago, ten years before that it was 76 grand. Less than the one bedroom shithole I had in bermonsey at the time. If I'd have bought in Croydon back then it would have been life changing for me. I still have that much to pay off. I'd have paid it off years ago or would live in mthe mansions up the road.

 

[Poi E]

Battling a proposed development at the end of our yard where they want to squeeze three four bedroom homes onto a postage stamp of old garages that back onto our yards and the neighbours.

Clearly

Croydon rents set to surge by 63 per cent by 2017

'A historic day for Croydon': Westfield/Hammerson given green light after long road to regeneration

Croydon: the London borough with start-up ambitions - FT.com

Fair enough.

All the council has left is building some shops and hailing it as an achievement. Brilliant. Minimum wage jobs and zero hour contracts.

 

[DaveCinzano]

CROYDON: BLAZING A TRAIL

A man accused of stealing a crate of Lucozade while riding a hoverboard may make British legal history after being charged with offences including driving the gadget on a pavement.

Omaree Lindsay, 19, from Croydon, Surrey, is thought to face one of the first prosecutions under new laws that ban the use of the motorised devices on roads and pavements, after he was allegedly filmed riding into a Co-op and out again carrying a crate of Lucozade...

Man accused of stealing crate of Lucozade could make UK legal history

 

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