5t3IIa
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we are not going to agree on this are we ?
No :d but it's not really an argument...Hackney does not have a tube: fact*.
* last little dig
What's Hackney like?
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No :d but it's not really an argument...Hackney does not have a tube: fact*.
* last little dig
Nah - trap for north Londoners, rat race commuters and plentiful Rymans/Boots etc.
You can live off-tube in London in cheaper, more interesting areas.
Miss-Shelf
I'll meet you further on up the road
scifisam
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It depends where in Hackney, but some parts are that difficult to get to, yep. My daughter's drawing class recently moved from the bottom of Mare St to Chat's Palace. It takes us almost an hour and a half to get to Chat's Palace with buses and walking and she misses quite a lot of the class - she's probably going to have to stop going, like a lot of the other kids have already, because it's just too hard to get to.
Hackney Central, though, where the museum is, is very easy to get to.
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
As a weekly visitor to Hackney I can say that I quite like the atmosphere over there, despite the smug middle-class twats in daft clothes and no spatial awareness, but I do feel a bit trapped by the transport system at times.
It's also very damp! The canals linger in the air.
It's a fine enough place.
It's also very damp! The canals linger in the air.
It's a fine enough place.
5t3IIa
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You can live cheaply and interestingly near tube stations too. I do. And I'm not a rat race commuter - I just have a job in WC2
scifisam
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You can live cheaply and interestingly near tube stations too. I do. And I'm not a rat race commuter - I just have a job in WC2
You can do, but being near a tube does put the price of a home up a lot.
19sixtysix
Bring me sunshine
in spite of the fact it has not one single tube station?
Frankly as a south londoner in crystal palace the lack of shitty tube trains is only a bonus. I have lovely proper sized train not those toothpaste tubes pretending to be public transport. Hackney looks fairly well served by proper trains and loads of buses.
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
Let's not pretend - Hackney Central is dire: full of the typical detritus one finds in inner city boroughs such as drunks, obese singletons, poundland fashionistas, and 'the smelly'. Victoria Park area is nice and Stoke Newington has some nice restaurants, but the Hackney heartland is grim, dark, and menacing, much like Wood Green which is also a hellhole.
nah it's shit and i know few people who can afford to use it, taking ze bus is much better unless you absolutely have to use the tube...
It depends where in Hackney, but some parts are that difficult to get to, yep. My daughter's drawing class recently moved from the bottom of Mare St to Chat's Palace. It takes us almost an hour and a half to get to Chat's Palace with buses and walking and she misses quite a lot of the class - she's probably going to have to stop going, like a lot of the other kids have already, because it's just too hard to get to.
Hackney Central, though, where the museum is, is very easy to get to.
it's 15 mins walk max from the bottom of mare street to chat's palace- hence adding 15 mins to your journey
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
it is cheaper getting the monthly bus pass, but millions of people do use the tube so they must be able to afford it
at least it's got more interesting architecture than wood green- the empire and town hall etc- i'd hardly call it menacing either....
well sure, but i was just using the example that a lot of people i know (myself included) try to avoid using the tube due to the cost, hence with that in mind hackney with ample bus services is a good place to get into/out of...
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
tosh!!!, it's not menacing at all
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
ok, you're right on the buses, we have them aplenty, although whenever i need a certain bus, it's always the other one that comes along
if i'm waiting for a 38, loads of 73 buses come along, if i want a 73, then i get all the 38 buses
it's scientific, the same science that dictates that when i light a cigarette, my bus will suddenly appear
The buses in Hackney have the worst of the worst on them: always packed, folk push the bell at every frigging stop, get on for a stop just to cross the road , have tribes of children and buggy's, and are a general pain in the arse
and, might I add, menacing
, have tribes of children and buggy's, and are a general pain in the arse and, might I add, menacing
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
The buses in Hackney have the worst of the worst on them: always packed, folk push the bell at every frigging stop, get on for a stop just to cross the road
and, might I add, menacing
i have never been menaced on a hackney bus, in 15 years of travelling on them
I've never been menaced on a bus either, I mean there are certainly random drunks etc, but I think it's more entertainment tbh
marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
I've never been menaced on a bus either, I mean there are certainly random drunks etc, but I think it's more entertainment tbh
and all for the price of a bus ticket
Homeless Mal In Talking Shit Shocker
What a sweeping generalisation!
Lived there for a number of years and liked it.. But I'm happier South of the river.
scifisam
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it's 15 mins walk max from the bottom of mare street to chat's palace- hence adding 15 mins to your journey
Fifteen minutes' walk if you're 18 foot tall, perhaps. It's 15 minutes just from the bottom of Mare St to the Hackney Empire.
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