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Which part of London gives you the creeps and why?

Harold Hill said:
Not creepy but Edmonton looks ugly and miserable. Badly designed buildings everywhere

Edmonton is ugly around the shopping centre but with some nice 18th century houses and medieval church in opposite direction. Plus two rivers run through it - Pymmes Brook and Salmon Brook where I saw my first kingfisher at the weekend.

Still, it sounds better to call it the 'mington.
 
Without a doubt, it's got to be Elephant and Castle. Not only is it a monstrosity, but it's really dodgy... someothing about all those subways... Plus, it's full of absolute weirdos. I really hate the place.
 
Shepherd's Bush is the only place I've lived in London where I've felt a bit spooked walking home late at night.
 
shoreditch and dalston - it's full of pretentious media cunts that live in a area dripping of shite thinking it's cool and fashionable.

EC? postcodes. too many banker wankers.
 
maomao said:
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It's called Edmn'n; only one vowel. Salmon's brook runs under my road. :cool:

Very cool. The stretch behind the shopping centre is where I saw the kingfisher - i think it has a nest there.
 
MacOSExtended said:
Shoreditch, Old St and Hoxton because it's full of UTTER CUNTS. Yes, you with your fucking truckers hat and stupid chops. Yes, you wearing the animal print stillettos with combat pants. yes, that means you, wanna-be designer flashing your G99 laptop on the subway that you don't know how to use. Cunts.
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half of hoxton's full of the nathan barley brigade, the other half are the pie and mash locals who fucking hate all the media cunts. it's a pleasant mix...
 
I like Hoxton Street. Very good pie and mash shop - does veggie pies. Plenty of different types of people to watch around that area.
 
The weird bit between Highgate and Hampstead. Loads of MASSIVE houses, loads of gates. No shops, no pedestrians on the pavement, no cars on the street. Just a lot of very wealthy people avoiding one another. Creepy.
 
boohoo said:
I like Hoxton Street. Very good pie and mash shop - does veggie pies. Plenty of different types of people to watch around that area.

yeah it's got a reputation for being full of media wankers, that's only around old street. if you venture up hoxton street and a bit further, it's a totally different scene.
 
MysteryGuest said:
Leicester Square on Fri/Sat nights has a frighteningly unpleasant vibe, really insane, menacing, nihilistic, with a semi-concealed undercurrent of violence and existential desperation. Very nasty indeed.
It's certainly gotten a lot worse in recent years. I can remember nights out up there back in the early 1990s and it wasn't anywhere like as nasty as it gets now. After-hours west-end London really does have a horrible atmospheare nowadays.
 
boohoo said:
Edmonton is ugly around the shopping centre but with some nice 18th century houses and medieval church in opposite direction. Plus two rivers run through it - Pymmes Brook and Salmon Brook where I saw my first kingfisher at the weekend.

Still, it sounds better to call it the 'mington.

Actually you're right there. erhaps I should say Edmonton Green.
 
pianistenvy said:
half of hoxton's full of the nathan barley brigade, the other half are the pie and mash locals who fucking hate all the media cunts. it's a pleasant mix...

Where is the separation? Between Kingsland Rd?? I always thought the west side looked to be the home of floppy haired vespa brigade.
 
poster342002 said:
It's certainly gotten a lot worse in recent years. I can remember nights out up there back in the early 1990s and it wasn't anywhere like as nasty as it gets now. After-hours west-end London really does have a horrible atmospheare nowadays.

Soho/China Town can be a bit dodgy at around 5ish/6ish am on the weekend. Not as dodgy as Angel/Islington on Friday/Saturday night. I think they have police vans parked up permanently there...!
 
Harold Hill said:
Where is the separation? Between Kingsland Rd?? I always thought the west side looked to be the home of floppy haired vespa brigade.

Bitching about how "media/trendy/whatever" Hoxton is is by now as tiresome a cliche as the sad fucks that actually fall into that category. Contrary to popular myth Hoxton/Shoreditch/Dalston is still home to a fairly diverse population.
 
Reno said:
Bitching about how "media/trendy/whatever" Hoxton is is by now as tiresome a cliche as the sad fucks that actually fall into that category. Contrary to popular myth Hoxton/Shoreditch/Dalston is still home to a fairly diverse population.
Yeah, there's areas of London which are as, if not more, barleytastic than Hoxton.
 
canary wharf... it's soo spookily american in its layout and shops/offices. doesn't agree with the rest of London at all IMO.
 
Reno said:
Bitching about how "media/trendy/whatever" Hoxton is is by now as tiresome a cliche as the sad fucks that actually fall into that category. Contrary to popular myth Hoxton/Shoreditch/Dalston is still home to a fairly diverse population.

I wouldn't call that bitching. My brother falls into that category so I don't mean them any specific harm. Just a social tribe as identifiable as chavs.
 
Camden.

The Somalian drug gangs, the fifteen year olds in their black make up, the chavs racing their fucking hairdryer powered scooters up and down the road outside your bedroom at four in the morning, the heroin addicts shambling around like zombies in "Dawn of the Dead" before jacking up in a local phone box, the constant cries of "weed, weed, oi mate, weed!", the trucker cap brigade, not being able to get off the tube on a sunday morning without strong arming your way through a crowd of hawkers, con men, beggars, thieves and tourists; all contained within a snarling, choking mass of jammed up traffic and exhaust fumes.

lovely place.
 
Hackney Central.

Harlesden.

Shoreditch I can live with - Nathan Barleys are hardly going to shank you with a knife if you look at them the wrong way (but they might write about you in their blog).

Elephant and Castle and all those nightmare 'sarf London estates.
 
jugularvein said:
mile end to to whitechapel via bow...

fulham... a ghetto

Whats wrong with Fulham? I know it has it's fair share of rich twats but some of it is really nice and villagey, like the alphabet streets.

Hammersmith Broadway and the otherhand....
 
Canary Wharf on a Sunday - very bizzare! Oxford Street at any time - far too many people about. Also areas like St John's Wood which seem very soul-less, just houses with no focal point.
I actually love places like Whitechapel, Hackney etc. they have 'character', old buildings and loads going on.
 
The majority of 60’s/70’s housing estates give me the creeps. So much disastrously ill-conceived design.

Have had to go taking photos round some estates near Archway recently, and was constantly getting lost, ending up in dead-end alleyways, surrounded by blind corners. When you don’t know an area or its dynamics is not the kind of environment you want to be hanging around in.

Everyone I actually met round there was lovely – its not the people that are intimidating it’s the design of the buildings.
 
Not an area I don't find fascinating, except perhaps the leafy suburbs, they're 'creepy' in a uniform housing/lifestyle kind of way.

Love walking through several hundred years of urban landscaping, love observing the cultural 'melting pot' going about it's everyday life.

Can't imagine anywhere more entertaining.
 
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