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Maggot said:
Utopia hasn't actually said anything good about Dalston, he's just here to slag off Croydon.

He would feel at home here: http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/threads/331440-hackney-hipster-hate?
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I don't feel the need to hype up Hackney, if you lived here you'd know how its simply one of the best places in London to live, well it is for me and my lifestyle anyway.

Croydon (or Little Britain as we commonly refer to it) is rubbish, violent and a cultural vaccum and anyone that says different is either dillusional, an utter chav or is easily impressed. :)
 
Utopia said:
I don't feel the need to hype up Hackney, if you lived here you'd know how its simply one of the best places in London to live, well it is for me and my lifestyle anyway.

Croydon (or Little Britain as we commonly refer to it) is rubbish, violent and a cultural vaccum and anyone that says different is either dillusional, an utter chav or is easily impressed. :)
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Can we kill this prick?
 
Utopia said:
I don't feel the need to hype up Hackney, if you lived here you'd know how its simply one of the best places in London to live, well it is for me and my lifestyle anyway.

Croydon (or Little Britain as we commonly refer to it) is rubbish, violent and a cultural vaccum and anyone that says different is either dillusional, an utter chav or is easily impressed. :)
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I have lived in Hackney. It wasn't great and I would no way go back. There are some nice bits but not enough of them to make me want to live there or make it a nice place.
It's not the worst place in the world but it's nothing to rave about that's for sure. (Dalston is the shit end BTW).

Your comments about Croydon are common for someone who has never been there. I was an instant convert as soon as I actually went there and looked around (for a house).
Initially I looked for houses everywhere around croydon but resisted Croydon itself because of the rep. Finally I gave in because of the house prices and had a look. It was basically more than twice as good as anywhere around it and six times as easy to zip into central London from.
I love living in Addiscombe, as I am in a nice suburban community with loads of parks fields and woods nearby, but am only ten minutes walk from East Croydon station. It also has the advantage of being near large shopping centers one way, or quality local butchers and fishmongers etc in a village like set up in the other direction.
It's great for the daughter, I am happy to raise a family here.
 
Utopia said:
I don't feel the need to hype up Hackney, if you lived here you'd know how its simply one of the best places in London to live, well it is for me and my lifestyle anyway.

Croydon (or Little Britain as we commonly refer to it) is rubbish, violent and a cultural vaccum and anyone that says different is either dillusional, an utter chav or is easily impressed. :)
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ignorant cretin
 
Utopia said:
A 'cretin'...perhaps but 'ignorant' well no not at all, sadly and solely due to family commitments i've been visiting Croydon for almost 10 years now so my opinion is an informed one.
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It's a big place, have you been visiting it all? Your ignorance is showing. For instance there is a big big difference between west croydon and East Croydon. Waddon or shirley, or New addington and Ranmore ave.
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
It's a big place, have you been visiting it all? Your ignorance is showing. For instance there is a big big difference between west croydon and East Croydon. Waddon or shirley, or New addington and Ranmore ave.
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I see what you're trying to do, make out I don't know Croydon at all so to make my opinion invalid, well i'm afraid I do have experience of the area as my Brother has lived in West/East(where he is now, just off Landsdowne rd) & South Croydon all since 2000, he's not lived in North Croydon if there is such a place......I guess that would be the delightful/leafy Thorton Heath perhaps!! ;-) but I, sadly, lived in Streatham for a short period so I know that part of the A23 very well indeed.

So I do know the differing areas of Croydon. Have to say I do admire your defence of the grim area you live in, shows loyalty, even if its misplaced. Enjoy living there, nice to hear you make the most of it. :) stiff upper lip & all that!
 
Hackneys one of those pretentious areas where its the place to be seen even though its a shithole, because of such its outpricing the people who gave the area any sense of character and filling it up with skinny jeaned twats.
 
Utopia said:
I see what you're trying to do, make out I don't know Croydon at all so to make my opinion invalid, well i'm afraid I do have experience of the area as my Brother has lived in West/East(where he is now, just off Landsdowne rd) & South Croydon all since 2000, he's not lived in North Croydon if there is such a place......I guess that would be the delightful/leafy Thorton Heath perhaps!! ;-) but I, sadly, lived in Streatham for a short period so I know that part of the A23 very well indeed.
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So you don't know any of the places I mentioned then apart from near west croydon, east croydon and south croydon stations?
You are just proving my point you dimwit.

. . . and Landsdown road ain't in a great area BTW. It's not the worst bit of croydon by a long chalk but you are clearly highlighting your ignorance.
 
Oh come on, he knows enough of Croydon to have a decent claim to suggest that he knows what he's talking about. It's not as though you have to possess special croydon knowledge to slag the place off.

I know the place really well and although I'm more sympathetic to the place than most, Croydon is a bit of an undistinguished corporate anytown - a handful decent pubs and venues succeed in spite, not because of, the largely sterile chainstore atmosphere. At chucking out time sometimes Croydon still feels more like a provincial town than a part of London. It's not where I'd choose for a night out - one or two okish restaurants excluded - that's for sure.

If it's any compensation, I've no love for Hackney either.
 
tarannau said:
Oh come on, he knows enough of Croydon to have a decent claim to suggest that he knows what he's talking about. It's not as though you have to possess special croydon knowledge to slag the place off.

I know the place really well and although I'm more sympathetic to the place than most, Croydon is a bit of an undistinguished corporate anytown - a handful decent pubs and venues succeed in spite, not because of, the largely sterile chainstore atmosphere. At chucking out time sometimes Croydon still feels more like a provincial town than a part of London. It's not where I'd choose for a night out - one or two okish restaurants excluded - that's for sure.

If it's any compensation, I've no love for Hackney either.
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I think you missed the point I was making. I had said it was no better or worse than most other areas of London, and that it was very big with some very nice bits, some really shit bits and some ok bits. I never claimed it was Mayfair.
He said it was all one big shit hole so I pointed out some shit bits and some very nice looking bits but it seems he didn't know where they were.

I don't mind going out for food in Croydon but I don't think I would go on a pub crawl there. Well I don't really like pub crawls anyway, I like I nice quiet old man pub and there is a good enough one at the end of my road.
 
The trouble is that the main bit of Croydon is largely undifferentiated chain store spread and that the bits don't hold well together - it's not cheek-by-cheek intermingling as you see in much of London, but more of the sprawl and differentiated zones you'd expect of some provincial town. It doesn't need to provide services for all its residents - the better off can schlep to London central easily enough - so it often feels a bit like a downmarket dormitory town of brand chainstores in the centre. Blandtown UK rather than London

It's marginally better than Sutton I guess.
 
I lived in Sutton for a year. I'd not move back. Might as well move to Wootton Bassett.
 
sim667 said:
Hackneys one of those pretentious areas where its the place to be seen even though its a shithole, because of such its outpricing the people who gave the area any sense of character and filling it up with skinny jeaned twats.
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Yes that is right what you say, clearly you know 'Hackers' very well indeed, here look at this music video made about my friends and I...........


 
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