Champagne & Fromage opening in Brixton soon
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cesare
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"Brie, Roquefort, Pol le Veq, Port Salut, Savoy Aire, Saint Paulin, Carrier de lest, Bres Bleu, Bruson?"
Cheese counter looks promising.
TruXta
tired
It IS twice as far out as Brixton. And there's not that much else around it either.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
The prosaic answer.
A lot of truth to that. Lots of nice houses and a tube station. Same is true of Wood Green, though, and it hasn't gone through the roof like Brixton. The extent to which Brixton has changed has to do with a little more than that, no?
Are you sure it hasn't? It was more expensive than Brixton anyway, I seem to recall.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I don't know Wood Green very well but rightmove shows plenty of houses at £600k plus. While that might be a little cheaper than Brixton that's still a lot of wealth in the area - maybe in a year or two that pent up demand will start to see more upmarket shops and bars opening and start the more visible cycle going. So the opposite of the view that it's the bars etc that drive the house prices.
Just catching up with this thread and I just want to take a moment to
that a flippant joke I made about Buckfast and Dairylea made it in to this bollocks in the Stannah Good work urban
ETA except on further reading perhaps that's not where it came from. As you were.
Yeah you can cycle from brixton to central in about 20 mins right? You cd walk if you had to. Wood green is quite a different thing to that, you are really separated from the centre
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I don't know, tbh.
I kind of assumed it was cheaper! We need Hollis here. If you're right, then sleaterkinney is really totally right - Brixton's gentrification is just because of the big houses there and the tube.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I've walked from Brixton to central London. It takes well over an hour.
I've also walked from central London to Clapton. That took nearly two hours. I'm guessing Wood Green would be similar.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
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trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Just catching up with this thread and I just want to take a moment to
Good work urban
ETA except on further reading perhaps that's not where it came from. As you were.
* outrageous situationist multimedia stunt idea appears in a flash of lightning*
I know! I've got it! Never mind the nouveau boho anarcho demonstrating - let's set a crack squad of OG SW9 crack squirrels on these incomers!
*rubs hands in anticipation*
Gramsci
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Depends on what u mean by middle class. I have a friend who is a journalist. Would say she is middle class professional. She would not be able to afford Champagne at £9 a glass. It is not the sort of place she uses.
She owns a house in Walthamstow. She says that there is no way she could buy a house there now.
There are really well off people in London. And seems a lot of them. The middle class is a vague term.
I was in Fortnum & Mason recently picking up something and in front of me was a guy ordering £300 pounds of presents for someone. It beggars belief how wealthy some people are to fork out this kind of money.
I noticed as well the info on the customer desk was translated into Chinese. The latest Oligarchs who shop in London.
FridgeMagnet
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Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Are they inviting us to their party?
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Of course the term middle class covers a wide range of people. I'd say a lot of the people moving in to Brixton are middle class but don't necessarily have lots of disposible income, like your friend. They're probably paying extortionate rents with not that much left over. The average age for buying a property now is 35.
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
TruXta
tired
Google says WG is almost twice as many miles from Ch X as Brixton.
TruXta
tired
And why wouldn't they? It's on the first page if you do a google search for GF + Brixton.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
There's something of a divide in the UK, and definitely London, now between those who got sorted for housing before the boom (either by buying or by getting social housing when it was still possible to get it) and those who did not. We're in a very fucked situation now - if you didn't get yourself sorted then, there are only bad options available to you - stretch yourself for a mortgage in a place you don't even really want to live, or pay over the odds for a private, insecure place that you might be booted out of with two months' notice.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Sounds about right. ChX is south-central, though.
TruXta
tired
It's the recognised cartographic centre of London isn't it?Sounds about right. ChX is south-central, though.
I hope I didnt plagiarise! Further to that tho you know who is responsible for hackney and bow gentrifying? DIZZEE RASCAL. Soon as you put a place in a pop song it is the beginning of the end.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
I lived in Stoke Newington in the mid-90s and it was already gentrifying then...
GUYS you are both already agreeing!!
Ms T
Honey-coloured ramparts
Agreed. Although obviously it also depends how old you are.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Dunno. I've always thought of that as Centre Point. Either way, I'm quibbling. Wood Green is zone 4, I think. While Brixton is zone 2.
That's separate. That was the baader meinhof that did that bit.
TruXta
tired
Oh I know, I know.
