Your London bigotry exposed
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scalyboy
They’re taking the piss now
This reminds me a bit of an early publicity quote for the Sex Pistols: 'Teenagers from London's Finsbury Park and Shepherd's Bush: "We hate everything"' But seriously, I do know what you mean. I have a deep mistrust of Upper Street, Islington, also De Beauvoir Town - there's a kind of smugness and self-satisfaction there. Stoke Newington also, but they are possibly worse, cos of the 'alternative' smugness. In fact, I often used to sense this North London smugness throughout whole swathes of the Holloway Road, Kentish Town, Cally Road etc - due to Arsenal's pre-eminence in the Premiership (this seems to have dropped off lately
).Another bleak spot for me would be Broadway Market, more art galleries than newsagents, 30-year-old Tarquins who should know better clogging up the pavement on tiny chopper bikes. No excuse for that sort of foolishness at your age.
And as someone who was 'born and bred' in Fulham in the 1970s, it can be distressing to return there now. Some of the familiar old buildings are still there, the street names are (generally) the same, but...everything else is very very changed. Oh woe.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
Hmmmm Peterborough eh?
Tension
Longevity of Tension
Very tense there, your kind and understanding nature would be put to good use building bridges with the Asylum seekers and large (nearly 50%) Muslim community and the disaffected BNP loving indigenous white youth
yep, as a place, right up your strasse, eh Gruppen Fuhrer?
Eight miserable years I spent in Peterborough, dont do it!
The muslim Community is nowhere near 50%, it was very small when I loved there and although the city has got more multicultural since I left in '94 it hasnt grown that much! Always had bad community relations though.
hipipol
Peckham Wry
You're right, it aint that high a percentage
Mea Culpa!! I am an arse!!!!
real fig seems to be 5.7% - I seem to be having problems with scale
Canning Town has been mentioned and it is a strange little Hamlet. When I visit I always try and work out exactly what is there apart from the station and a load of flats.
Hackney is all 'image' and is what someone said: a place that does not actually produce anything. Kingsland Road is also a tip that continues on to the tip that is Turnpike Lane and Wood fucking Green. Camden also generalyy sends shivers down my spine but is nothing compared to the dark hellhole that is Kentish Town West and anywhere near Queens Crescent (except maybe Hackney).
Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush are just kind of nothing places, as is West Kensington. I mean, what is West Kensington? It is basically a main road with a Sainsburys lobbed on to the side.
Not overly familiar with Sth London apart from Oval, Stockwell, Tooting and Bermondsey but have never hung round long enough to get a true idea. Camberwell frightens me, and Elephant & Castle is a hellish maze of murder trap underground pedestrian subways.
Tottemham and Seven Sisters are horrible horrible places, just sticking problem and troubled people on top of each other with a load of dodgy 'international calling' type shops. Urgh
Oddly I like Finsbury Park and Stroud Green, and a very small section of Hornsey.
Hackney is all 'image' and is what someone said: a place that does not actually produce anything. Kingsland Road is also a tip that continues on to the tip that is Turnpike Lane and Wood fucking Green. Camden also generalyy sends shivers down my spine but is nothing compared to the dark hellhole that is Kentish Town West and anywhere near Queens Crescent (except maybe Hackney
).Hammersmith and Shepherds Bush are just kind of nothing places, as is West Kensington. I mean, what is West Kensington? It is basically a main road with a Sainsburys lobbed on to the side.
Not overly familiar with Sth London apart from Oval, Stockwell, Tooting and Bermondsey but have never hung round long enough to get a true idea. Camberwell frightens me, and Elephant & Castle is a hellish maze of murder trap underground pedestrian subways.
Tottemham and Seven Sisters are horrible horrible places, just sticking problem and troubled people on top of each other with a load of dodgy 'international calling' type shops. Urgh
Oddly I like Finsbury Park and Stroud Green, and a very small section of Hornsey.
Wolfie Smith
Sociable Worker
South West London - Clapham, Battersea, Wandworth, Putney, Southfields, right through to Richmond. Full of twats who shop at White Stuff, watch the rugby down the pub and in their hearts don't really want to live in London at all. I cannot stand it.
And Kilburn High Road - awful awful awful. Dragging me naked across burning embers is preferable to having to even try and negotiate the god awful congested masses that huddle in and around the Argos and Primark. Scenes similar to food deliveries at an Ethiopian village in the grip of famine 
I'm depressed just thinking about Kilburn High Road
I'm depressed just thinking about Kilburn High Road
I actually don't mind most parts of London (including Streatham) but there's whole chunks of southeast London that just depress me. Camberwell is pretty crap and there's nothing to do here except get on a bus and go somewhere else, and even then half of the buses just take you to somewhere equally crap like Peckham, East Dulwich or Lewisham. same thing further east in Catford, Woolwich, Eltham etc.
Greenwich is nice though.
Greenwich is nice though.
Streathamite
ideological dogmatist
the whole of the isle of dogs, canning town and stratford. soulless, ugly nightmare.
I broadly find south London a bit alien, mates in Berdmonsey are mixture of nice and psychotic but it seems a bit live down there, don't know anything about Brixton and have little desire to go really, rate Finsbury park, Stroud green and Hornsey as thats my manor. Lived in Manchester for years and its way nicer than London in genaral
Cloo
Banana for scale
Like the OP - I find Clapham and Wandsworth horribly smug - fully of yummy mummies with Bugaboos who take holidays on yurts on organic farms with their husbands and little Barnaby and Isabella. Wandsworth seems to be the epicentre of all family trendiness - overpriced organic cafes aimed at mums with kids, 'private members' clubs' for kids and so forth and bars aimed at rave dads.
George & Bill
semiotically superfluous
I hate tossers who come to live in London from elsewhere and think they can mouth off about which bits and what aspects they like and dislike as if they're choosing pick 'n' mix mini swiss cheese in Tescos. Naturally, any person will have positive and negative impressions of any place they go, but people seem to forget that London is not just some sort of employment theme-park for provincials and foreigners to visit for a laugh - for some people it is actually home.
Stobart Stopper
Well-Known Member
Hoxton and Shoreditch are much worse, really full of twats and arty weirdo types. And they all seem to wear those thick rimmed glasses and the men look like they need a fucking good wash IMO.
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
In twenty years living in London, I have failed to find a single compelling reason to visit the London Borough of Enfield.
I've been pleasantly surprised to overcome my anti-Essex prejudices ands discover that Redbridge and Havering have plenty of isolated curiosities on their green belt borders. Even Barking and Dagenham has the obvious redeeming feature of Eastbury Manor and the less obvious appeal of post-apocalyptic Thames riverside.
But Enfield? HIC SVNT DRACONES
I've been pleasantly surprised to overcome my anti-Essex prejudices ands discover that Redbridge and Havering have plenty of isolated curiosities on their green belt borders. Even Barking and Dagenham has the obvious redeeming feature of Eastbury Manor and the less obvious appeal of post-apocalyptic Thames riverside.
But Enfield? HIC SVNT DRACONES
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