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Leyton - whats it like to live in?

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Gary Potter said:
To far away from all the good stuff where as Leyton sits on the door step of West Fields and the Olympic Park,
the good stuff is in E17. anyway, Westfields is on door step

was going to buy in Walthamstow but went to look and yes there is a market but oh my, its full of rubbish 20 years ago it was a fantastic market but alas not know,
lots of the stuff on the market is tat but it has some gems in there, some top class fruit and veg, and the best thing about it is the vibe, the music, the street cafes, the life that the market brings to the street.

and it is only one small part of Stow that is any good and that's the village, the prices are over inflated.
You are behind the times. Now many parts of E17 are getting good - eg Lloyds Park, Stoneydown. And pubs, market stalls are changing for the good.

I was an estate agent in the area for over ten years and Stow will come down in price over the next year or two as other area's are on the up.
Wrong on price, prices have been going up and will continue to do so.
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Hellsbells said:
Yes the market's not really that great, but it's not true that the Village is the only part of Walthamstow that's any good. It's the most expensive part of Walth that's true, but there are other nice, cheaper areas. The Lloyd park area is nice, and quite a few roads on the outskirts of Walthamstow are also really nice. It would be fantastic if prices in Watlhamstow did come down in the next year or 2 - I'd love to buy there if i could.
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yes
 
I don't want to turn this into North vs South of our fine borough, but I agree with everything Hellsbells and maximillian have said. There's more to Walthamstow than the village and the market

There's loads of good stuff in E17, and more happening all the time, a lot of it is low key (e.g art trail), but still very good. This is the first place I've lived in London that I've felt any sense of community :) Earlier this month our street(nr Lloyd Park) had an end of summer street party (we don't do Jubilee nonsense round here) and it was a great day, we got to shout at the EDL and then get back to the street party with games for the kids, live music and a good bar provided by Ye Olde Rose and Crown so we could get tipsy with our neighbours. Hopefully we'll do it again next year.

I'm looking forward to my neglected local (the Bell) reopening under some capable hands http://twitter.com/Bell_E17 and they've done a great job on the park and the gallery, (the opening event stuff the other weekend was enjoyable, especially the food) so our end of E17 seems to be pretty good at the moment.
 
Hellsbells said:
I think there's few people living in Walthamstow who aren't happy there. I certainly haven't met any!
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We moved here about a year ago and I'd agree with that and also N1's comment about the sense of community. House prices haven't come down in that time but the area is still much better value and more affordable than the house price insanity of Hackney, Clapton etc.

Oh and it looks like we're not getting a UCKG headquarters after all. :D
 
Gary Potter said:
If you are going to move to Leyton make sure you move to the north of Leyton, Barclay Estate is great full of Edwardian houses and some Victorian and some 20s/30s. Neighbours are great the estate is very quite yet it is close to the Central Line Leyton or Leytonstone and also the Victoria line in Walthamstow all of which are no more than ten minutes walk away. I do hope you move here as you get good value for your money, and the prices are rising everyday. Good Luck
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I wonder if this advice will persuade him, given five years has passed since his comment.

Furthermore, if you lived a ten minute walk away from the central line (leyton), it doesn't place you at a ten minute walk away from the victoria line by any stretch of the imagination.
 
Citizen66 said:
I wonder if this advice will persuade him, given five years has passed since his comment.

Furthermore, if you lived a ten minute walk away from the central line (leyton), it doesn't place you at a ten minute walk away from the victoria line by any stretch of the imagination.
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Then you must drive as all the station are no more than 10 mins from where I live.
 
Note to new members.

This is a board where people swear. There's a lot to be said for getting the feel of a particular bulletin board before wasting the time of moderators with reported posts because someone says fuck or cunt or something.
 
Gary Potter said:
As I said and it has now happened, prices are falling in Walthamstow as predicted and I am not out of the loop may its you?
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do you have a link to property prices in walthamstow to prove they've dropped? Nothing I've seen on property sites has gone down in price, so i'd be really interested to know where these properties are.
 
Flats have dropped around 10 to 15 % from 2008

I quite like copper fields too ....

Leyton Station to stow centrals about a 45 min walk for me
 
Citizen66 said:
I wonder if this advice will persuade him, given five years has passed since his comment.

Furthermore, if you lived a ten minute walk away from the central line (leyton), it doesn't place you at a ten minute walk away from the victoria line by any stretch of the imagination.
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Oh dear, we have a bitter person in Walthamstow, and who can blame them, living there.

For your information I live ten minute's from each station, I live in the MIDDLE of the two, that's how, ten minutes EACH WAY.
I sense a certain bitchy attitude toward people who have not paid through their nose for a decent house in a decent area. How ever you have, just to live in a few OK streets. Never mind. Oh yes I also live only ten mins from Leytonstone station too.
 
Gary Potter said:
Oh dear, we have a bitter person in Walthamstow, and who can blame them, living there.

For your information I live ten minute's from each station, I live in the MIDDLE of the two, that's how, ten minutes EACH WAY.
I sense a certain bitchy attitude toward people who have not paid through their nose for a decent house in a decent area. How ever you have, just to live in a few OK streets. Never mind. Oh yes I also live only ten mins from Leytonstone station too.
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There's no 'bitchiness' about it. I just happen to know that it takes half an hour to get from Leyton station to Walthamstow central BY BUS so your claims of being in walking distance of both by ten minutes is a crock of shit, even if you lived perfectly 'in the middle'.

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/us...Date=20130831&itdTimeHour=10&itdTimeMinute=32
 
erm...i can't believe this silly argument about walking distance between stations has started again after a whole year! It must be a very slow day at work!
 
prices in walthamstow definitely still going up. a few separate people i know were thinking of buying a place there but by the time they actually got round to properly looking the prices had all gone up too much so they couldnt afford it any more.
 
I've lived in Walthamstow for 9 months now, its really shit, i've lived all over London and Walthamstow is by far the worst place i've lived in. No community, no diversity....unless you call differing Eastern European countries diverse. No decent pubs, shops or restaraunts....best thing about it is the Vic Line & its close (by bike)to Epping forest. Moving back to Hackney in 2 weeks...cannot wait.
 
Utopia said:
I've lived in Walthamstow for 9 months now, its really shit, i've lived all over London and Walthamstow is by far the worst place i've lived in. No community, no diversity....unless you call differing Eastern European countries diverse. No decent pubs, shops or restaraunts....best thing about it is the Vic Line & its close (by bike)to Epping forest. Moving back to Hackney in 2 weeks...cannot wait.
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No community? I completely disagree. I have found a stronger sense of community in Walthamstow than anywhere else I've lived in London. It's the thing I have loved most about moving here.

No diversity? That's completely absurd. There are people from everywhere!

No decent shops? What sort of shops? There are brilliant food shops on the market.

I don't entirely disagree re: pubs and restaurants :D (although I love the Tapas place in the village and the South Indian/Sri Lankan on Hoe Street).

I don't miss Hackney one single bit!
 
Utopia said:
I've lived in Walthamstow for 9 months now, its really shit, i've lived all over London and Walthamstow is by far the worst place i've lived in. No community, no diversity....unless you call differing Eastern European countries diverse. No decent pubs, shops or restaraunts....best thing about it is the Vic Line & its close (by bike)to Epping forest. Moving back to Hackney in 2 weeks...cannot wait.
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Are you mad?
 
Utopia said:
I've lived in Walthamstow for 9 months now, its really shit, i've lived all over London and Walthamstow is by far the worst place i've lived in. No community, no diversity....unless you call differing Eastern European countries diverse. No decent pubs, shops or restaraunts....best thing about it is the Vic Line & its close (by bike)to Epping forest. Moving back to Hackney in 2 weeks...cannot wait.
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you need to look harder; there's LOADS of decent pubs and restaurants there
 
an awardwinning museum, umpteen decent pubs in E17, E10 and E11, a wide range of restaurants and cafes, a weekly farmers market, a nearby orgnic vegetable grower, a massively diverse population, an annual music festival, a pop up cinema, an art trail. What more do you want? the only thing lacking is young men affecting victorian moustaches, and that clearly is a void we cannot fill for you, Utopia.
 
TikkiB said:
an awardwinning museum, umpteen decent pubs in E17, E10 and E11, a wide range of restaurants and cafes, a weekly farmers market, a nearby orgnic vegetable grower, a massively diverse population, an annual music festival, a pop up cinema, an art trail. What more do you want? the only thing lacking is young men affecting victorian moustaches, and that clearly is a void we cannot fill for you, Utopia.
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With such a wide range of attractions, I'm sure the young men with victorian moustaches won't be lacking for long
 
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