I think this is right. Both my girls, who have always lived in central Brixton and are now in their 20s, have avoided any serious trouble. We made sure that they were careful, though. But boys they know have had problems, mainly involving phones being nicked.
There's a few good lines in that but fucking hell he talks a lot of shit too. You know once I rapped WITH A REAL LIFE BLACK GUY and hey look I DIDN"T GET KILLED BY ANY JAMAICANS
..........this for example
Oh, I dunno. I'm not sure that the place lives up to the name of 'Brixton Village.'
I wasn't really being Brixton specific, but he seems to be suggesting that places such as Notting Hill and Bethnal Green enjoy resort status in his world view, and in the context of the paragraph from which I lifted the quote that suggests he is guilty of the same kind of attitude he slags off later
from what i've read of it he talks sense. fucking hell people hate on the hipsters, but also hate on the people who say pretty much what is said here every day.
True. I somehow doubt (perhaps incorrectly) that he has truly got under the skin of his 'play villages' of Notting Hill, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green in the same way that he accuses hipster tourists of not getting under the skin of Brixton. It's a somewhat glaring hypocrisy and makes his accusations that this mystical bunch of Hipsters are all chippy sound ... well ... a bit chippy.
It's only the social housing that is providing the buffer against Brixton turning into a total fucking Charlie's playground, but I'm sure you'll be pleased to hear that the council has been actively leafleting tenants with 'Buy Your Council House' offers.
Social housing rent is pegged to 'market rent' so it affects us too. We aren't on any benefits but in the last ten years our rent has shot up so it's getting very hard for people who aren't on high wages.
Actually it's more about the decline in social housing and families priced out of their own communities. Perhaps you can find a witty graphic to portray that?
Or older people like me and my husband who have people in the house who are only living here because there is no hope whatsoever of them being able to afford to rent somewhere, even in a shared place. We'd quite like to have the place to ourselves, it's pretty cramped and there's only the front room for guests and grandchildren to stay. I love my adult son and am fond of the lodger, but in an ideal world they wouldn't have to be here at all. We also have a regular homeless sofa-surfer.
it's grim at this time of year. Come Spring it will probably perk up again. Was very quiet last Sat, for a Sat. The places that have built a reputation, deserved or not, (Honest, Kaosarn, Mama Lan) are doing OK, the rest not quite so well.
but the sheep like hipsters attract other sheep like hipsters and thus the prices go up because the place becomes indemand
you cant see that people are angry about what's going on?
But nowhere near as tedious as your pointless picture contributions. It's like the topics of social housing and gentrification are too complicated for you to understand so you have to post up idiotic remarks instead.
nah, just a sneak preview of the type of person that brixton will be full of in a few years time. a once very interesting community reduced to boring smug rubbleIs that what you think hipster are?
