Fingers crossed...might not be far from the truth. I chanced across a poor unfortunate posh twat the other day who was standing in the middle of Leander Road screaming "Fuck" a lot. He was so cross he had thrown his deck shoes across the road and was pounding the windscreen of a VW Golf with both fists. He told me that he had been grabbed from behind by one guy and another had grabbed his £4k Rolex off his wrist. I asked if he had been hurt and he was fine but then he started screaming again...to which one of his exceptionally plummy mates chirped up "Well you were walking through the estate shouting look at my Rolex paupers". Any drop of sympathy went immediately.
Brixton news, rumours and general chat - October 2012
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Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Not funny.
Crispy
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ie. me (well, a substantial fraction anyway).
So,
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
My parents lent me £10k nearly twenty years ago which enabled me to buy a flat on Kellett Rd back in the day when it was cheap. I sold for a huge profit and was able to buy a house in the area. And there are others you know personally, ed, who were able to buy in Brixton due to inheritances. You really are being horribly judgemental.
Frumious B.
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I know we're long overdue for a new 'squirrels on crack' moment, but you'll have to come up with something better than that.
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Kanda
Diving wanker
Jeez. of course I fucking am.
Thought you were, others don't seem to think so....
? Suggesting I've made it up?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Jeez. of course I fucking am.
Some people need to get a sense of humour.
It wasn't funny.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
Jeez. of course I fucking am.
Some people need to get a sense of humour.
Brixton's always had its trustfunders.
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hiraethified
Oh whatever. I know you're loving the gentrification of Brixton, but I'm not finding it funny seeing long term residents being forced out as the buy to let brigade take over.
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hiraethified
Absolutely, but this time around it's a freaking tidal wave.
twistedAM
Left Of The Dial
This time around they don't hide it.
Crispy
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Jeez. of course I fucking am.
Some people need to get a sense of humour.
No, it doesn't work like that.
When one causes offence, one says sorry and readjusts one's boundaries.
One doesn't say "oh, you shouldn't be offended by that, don't be silly".
The person with the best POV to judge whether something is offensive is the person being offended.
I know it's just a little joke and you think I'm over reacting, but I'm just spelling it out plainly for the avoidance of any doubt.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Brixton has been gentrifying for the past twenty years. And liking some aspects of Brixton Village doesn't mean I'm happy about long-term residents being forced out, if they are.
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hiraethified
Jolly good. But we do move in rather different circles.
snowy_again
Slush
You're a bit grumpy today editor...
I'm a long term resident who's being forced out.I've lived in the same street for 37 years,Lambeth is fucking us all out (they are rehousing people) and our houses are being sold at auction for over £700,000 .
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
I'm very sorry to hear that. It's obviously a pile of shite.
Manter
Lunch Mob
Next door to me and gazumped us on a house three streets away.
So that's two. Which is clearly a statistically significant sample, in a rigorously managed scientific survey
I'll get my coat
Crispy
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I suppose I can claim some points back due to the previous occupant of our house dying rather than moving out. She was the original council tenant since the house was built (and subsequent owner under RTB). Her son, as inheritor of the house, made an absolute killing by selling it at current market prices. A perfect example of the hideous distortions of the housing market in the last 30 years.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Next door to me and gazumped us on a house three streets away.
So that's two. Which is clearly a statistically significant sample, in a rigorously managed scientific survey
I'll get my coat
The thing is, it's really hard for anyone under the age of about 35 to buy a place in London without any parental help/inheritance, unfortunately.
Onket
Je suis [CONTENT REMOVED]
No, no, it's people who disagree with him who are grumpy, remember.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
RTB has a lot to answer for. When my granny went into a home, and her husband subsequently died, we had a couple of weeks to clear out her council house before it was handed back to the council for another tenant to live in.
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hiraethified
Sorry, but I'm just fed up hearing about my friends being forced out of Brixton. Another good friend told me he's leaving next week.
The Brixton community has already lost most of Rushcroft Road and all of Clifton Mansions, and many people I've known in Brixton for years on end are desperately trying to ride out the rent increases or they're reluctantly planning on going elsewhere.
That hideous Brixton Square development seems to be attracting nothing but buy-to-letters who are going to further inflate rent prices, and with the council now looking at the $$$ potential of doing Guinness Trust-style 'redevelopment' deals on council estates, I don't think it's going to be too long before I'm pushed out.
Quite a few long term residents on my estate are worried about their future here too. And that pisses me right off.
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hiraethified
I can be grumpy too, you know. But never as grumpy as you
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