i am moving to streatham

[kropotkin]

Streatham highlights:

Pub quiz at the pub next to my house on a wednesday (Earl Ferrers on Ellora Road at the bottom of the common)

More fried chicken detritus than anywhere else on the planet

Somaliland just past Streatham station where all the Somali men hang out in coffee shops. The women are nowhere to be seen.

The White Lion pub is pretty cool (on the high street)

 

[dolly's gal]

More fried chicken detritus than anywhere else on the planet

you is vegetarian

 

[SubZeroCat]

There's a shisha cafe - I think it's called El Bled? It's on the High Street, near St. Leonard's Church.

 

[CharlieAddict]

The White Lion pub is pretty cool (on the high street)

what? the one opposite the kfc? that use to be shite...but i haven't been in there for 5 years.

opposite the police station, there's a an excellent fish and chip shop. he serves 'em in boxes and they're well crunchy and nice.

 

[dolly's gal]

i loved living in streatham. i can't quite put my finger on why exactly, but i did. i would certainly consider going back.

 

[HackneyE9]

Actually, we're trading a two bed flat in a thirties block in Hackney for a three bed sixties house in Forest Hill, monkey.

 

[Streathamite]

Just exchanged contracts today, and completion is set for next friday, so will be a sarf lahdahner (or whatever) by christmas.

Hopefully will see some of you out and about - but tell me what is good about streatham (i'm thinking: pubs, restaurants, cafes, shops etc).

Ta!

you'll love it. 2 superb parks in the manor 9tooting bec down near mitcham lane and the common). Ok puubs on the high rd IMO, superb restaurants too, all around.
but they're closing the Megabowl

 

[Streathamite]

cheers.

i think that technically it's somewhere in the middle: sunnyhill road. you'll have to tell me whether that's considered one end or the other....

used to live there meself. extreme southern end of 'hill' high rd

 

[Dubversion]

what? the one opposite the kfc? that use to be shite...but i haven't been in there for 5 years.

it's a fairly recently revived decent bar with quite a lot going on that's struggling to survive, i think, cos nobody in Streatham seems to go out.

 

[hektik]

it's a fairly recently revived decent bar with quite a lot going on that's struggling to survive, i think, cos nobody in Streatham seems to go out.

from my own "newbie" perspective, every time i have gone past the white lion it looks closed, with the blinds down over most of the windows.

when you look closer, you can see there is stuff going on, but it doesn't look that inviting.

 

[Streathamite]

actually, that was my take on it too. shame cos it's the best in streatham.

 

[Utopia]

it's a fairly recently revived decent bar with quite a lot going on that's struggling to survive, i think, cos nobody in Streatham seems to go out.

I think that anybody who lives in Streatham doesn't like to go out in Streatham & anybody who doesn't live in Streatham.......well they don't like to go out in Streatham either!

(FYI lived near the Common on the High road for 1 1/2 years!)

 

[Streathamite]

so, you moved yet, hekkers?

 

[hektik]

yep, i have been fimrly ensconsed in south london for just under a month - fitting in with dub's assertion that no one in streatham goes out, i have not yet really been out to sample the nightlife as of yet, except for a brief rendez-vous with some people in mint, which was far less wanky than i thought it was going to be.

five people have said good morning to me since moving here: it's almost like living in a country village. except for the volume of police sirens.

 

[Dubversion]

yep, i have been fimrly ensconsed in south london for just under a month - fitting in with dub's assertion that no one in streatham goes out, i have not yet really been out to sample the nightlife as of yet, except for a brief rendez-vous with some people in mint, which was far less wanky than i thought it was going to be.

yeh, Mint could be a lot worse. ANd they do a great mojito

 

[SubZeroCat]

I'm moving out of Streatham!

Hey, if you're into mushrooms - Streatham Fruiterers do loads of odd, hard to find ones.

That is all

 

[hektik]

well on relocation, relocation last night, they referred to streatham as "up-and-coming" which brought a little bit of joy to my heart.

it looked pretty swish on the programme, which was obviously filmed in the summer...

 

[Streathamite]

well on relocation, relocation last night, they referred to streatham as "up-and-coming" which brought a little bit of joy to my heart.

it looked pretty swish on the programme, which was obviously filmed in the summer...

tbh, it's never really been 'down''. historically, it has always had the reputation as the lil slice of leafiness southbankers and brixtonites move to when they've made their dough - hence the fact that your road is one long strip of v large, handsome houses.

 

[per]

But people always say Streatham is really rough?

It's not exactly very pretty, the big houses are nice but the shops are gash

 

[SubZeroCat]

I've never had any trouble in Streatham and I find that the residential areas are very quiet and trouble free.

 

[Monkeynuts]

Streatham always used to be the smart area of S London (witness allthe mansion blocks, which are only otherwise really found in better bits of London) and looked down on Clapham, Balham, Tooting etc.

It suffered from the closure of the John Lewis (well done Lambeth - you bunch of donkeys' cocks) and the consequent decline of the High St.

Unlike the aforementioned areas it did not "benefit" from the Northern Line Effect which was at the same time transforming those areas and as such remained affordable and fairly unfashionable.

As an affordable area it has attracted a few ne'er-do-wells and as such the crime is higher than some but not all areas of the borough. The problem in the area - if you view it as such - with prostitution is age-old.

But for all that it's not a bad area.

 

[kyser_soze]

Streatham's great - aside from the pubs, really good cafés, restaurants (I get my morning caffeine shot from Kente or Rosca), some good independent traders, and really good, big properties that are relatively reasonabley priced (renting or buying) that are fucking huge.

Decent transport links as well, altho it can be a long march up the high road on a day like this!!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Just exchanged contracts today, and completion is set for next friday, so will be a sarf lahdahner (or whatever) by christmas.

Hopefully will see some of you out and about - but tell me what is good about streatham (i'm thinking: pubs, restaurants, cafes, shops etc).

Ta!

I found it pretty boring when I lived there. Couple of niceish places to eat and it's own cinema but nothing else. Slightly anoying rail connections and terrible buses.

Might have changed though.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

if you view it as such - with prostitution is age-old.

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Oh yeah I forgot about the prostitues! They are bloody everywhere 'looking for bussines?'

Quite oftern at night I would be flashed by women in big coats with the 'looking for bussines' line.

 

[Pieface]

I think I have prostitute filter vision. I never, ever notice them. It took months of living on Elm Park and Endymion Rd before I worked out what the ladies at the end of the road were doing. Such lack of gorm sometimes.

 

[SubZeroCat]

I think I have prostitute filter vision. I never, ever notice them.

Same!

 

[Pieface]

maybe that's cos we are the prostitutes?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I think I have prostitute filter vision. I never, ever notice them. It took months of living on Elm Park and Endymion Rd before I worked out what the ladies at the end of the road were doing. Such lack of gorm sometimes.

It's hard to not notice them when they jump out at you and ask if you want sex with them for money. I only had that happen to me in Steatham and it happened all the time.


I tell a lie, it once happend in stockwell (but I think she was working alone and needed a quick buck) and once when I was on a bike just coming up to slone square. This woman in a white fur coat lept out in front of me, opened her coat (bra and knickers) and said 'looking for bussines?)

 

[Dubversion]

maybe that's cos we are the prostitutes?

 

[Dubversion]

I found it pretty boring when I lived there. Couple of niceish places to eat and it's own cinema but nothing else. Slightly anoying rail connections and terrible buses.

Might have changed though.

it is quite boring i guess, but then I live in Streatham, I don't go out there. As long as the shops and facilities etc are good - and they are, and the transport connections are ok (and they are - i think Streatham is served brilliantly by buses.. ) then I'm happy. I go out elsewhere.