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ernestolynch said:
Lots of racism and classism on this thread.
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Nah, just misunderstanding.

Croydons 'problem' is that its of such a size that its effectively a town attached to a much larger city. It also emcompasses everything that people claim to like about living in London i.e its multicultural, big selection of restaurants and bars, lots of shopping with everything they dislike as well in terms of potential violence in parts of it and so on.

I live to the very south of the borough and its a good place for families to live. Schools are all very good, there are lots of community based activities if you want to be involved and plenty of green space that is easily acccessible along with having great transport links to the centre. I think that the David Lean cinema offers one of the best selections of art house cinema outside of West End and its also got a great libary.

Where I see a lot of dislike from people on Urban is that perhaps its a bit too like the places that many of them come from and that now they are in the 'Smoke' they like to think of themselves as all Metrosexuals and so on and Croydon just reminds them of their own small town roots.

As one of the few 'real' South Londoners on here I admit that when I first moved out down here I was not that keen but I have grown rather fond of it now.
 
spot on Stoat Boy

apart from all the schools being 'very good'. My Wife has taught in some primaries in Croydon that wouldn't be classed as 'very good'.
but that is the same everywhere :)
 
Stoat Boy said:
Where I see a lot of dislike from people on Urban is that perhaps its a bit too like the places that many of them come from and that now they are in the 'Smoke' they like to think of themselves as all Metrosexuals and so on and Croydon just reminds them of their own small town roots.

As one of the few 'real' South Londoners on here I admit that when I first moved out down here I was not that keen but I have grown rather fond of it now.
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The metrosexual comment is spot on, but i think it relates to the wider public, not just urban..... Ive got a lot of freinds who are like that up in london, but also down in brighton.....

Im not sure where I can claim I come from, I was say around croydon as thats where ive spent the vast majority of my life...... Was born in st albans though..... I think we stayed there for all of about 10 mins
 
Dan U said:
apart from all the schools being 'very good'. My Wife has taught in some primaries in Croydon that wouldn't be classed as 'very good'.
but that is the same everywhere :)
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TBF Stoat Boy was talking about the area to the south of the Borough (presumably Coulsdon, Kenley), not the whole Borough.
 
Stoat Boy said:
Nah, just misunderstanding.

Croydons 'problem' is that its of such a size that its effectively a town attached to a much larger city. It also emcompasses everything that people claim to like about living in London i.e its multicultural, big selection of restaurants and bars, lots of shopping with everything they dislike as well in terms of potential violence in parts of it and so on.

I live to the very south of the borough and its a good place for families to live. Schools are all very good, there are lots of community based activities if you want to be involved and plenty of green space that is easily acccessible along with having great transport links to the centre. I think that the David Lean cinema offers one of the best selections of art house cinema outside of West End and its also got a great libary.

Where I see a lot of dislike from people on Urban is that perhaps its a bit too like the places that many of them come from and that now they are in the 'Smoke' they like to think of themselves as all Metrosexuals and so on and Croydon just reminds them of their own small town roots.

As one of the few 'real' South Londoners on here I admit that when I first moved out down here I was not that keen but I have grown rather fond of it now.
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Yeah good post i think. Sums it up.
It is a good library. What I like in Croydon is the community feel I never got from any of the other London boroughs I lived in in London. I'm sure it does exist in other areas though. There are people I wave to or say hello to on a daily basis here and that has never happened anywhere else.

I still haven't managed the dream of having local pub mates though. Oh hum, I guess that's fatherhood etc.
 
I had the same thing when I lived in your area Atomic. Some great pubs but normally it was just me and the Mrs.

Although we did get to know a few folk in the Builders by doing the quiz.

Maggot said:
TBF Stoat Boy was talking about the area to the south of the Borough (presumably Coulsdon, Kenley), not the whole Borough.
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Oh yeah, i didn't pick up on that bit. Although the worst school my Wife has ever taught in was in New Addington - nothing to do with the area, but to do with the management being fucking terrible (it ended up on special measures).
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Yeah good post i think. Sums it up.
It is a good library. What I like in Croydon is the community feel I never got from any of the other London boroughs I lived in in London. I'm sure it does exist in other areas though. There are people I wave to or say hello to on a daily basis here and that has never happened anywhere else.

I still haven't managed the dream of having local pub mates though. Oh hum, I guess that's fatherhood etc.
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You call it 'community feel' everyone else calls it 'postcode gangs' ;)

I do see what you mean though......
 
We are thinking of moving, staying with in the general London area and have thought about moving back to Croydon. Is it a goer?
There are a few modern high rise developements there, quite high spec and would buy us a lot more than what we have now, should we do it, what do people think?
 
Yeah, why not. Transport links aren't bad, considering no tube. SO not like you have to do everything within Croydon town. Which TBF is a bit of a concrete jungle.
 
I would have thought Wandsworth (my current borough) would have been one of the greenest, what with all the Commons...

Tattoo's and piercing's, been there done that one!
 
hash tag said:
We are thinking of moving, staying with in the general London area and have thought about moving back to Croydon. Is it a goer?
There are a few modern high rise developements there, quite high spec and would buy us a lot more than what we have now, should we do it, what do people think?
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My brother lived in Croydon for 6 years so i've visited area quite a bit. My advice to you would be - If you've got any other option, ANYWHERE, take it, Croydon's an utter shithole....the only positive is the multitude of travel options that take you away from the desolate, violent, souless, drab place.
 
hash tag said:
I would have thought Wandsworth (my current borough) would have been one of the greenest, what with all the Commons...

Tattoo's and piercing's, been there done that one!
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Croydon's almost three times the size of Wandsworth, and a lot of the outer bits in particular are fields.
 
hash tag said:
We are thinking of moving, staying with in the general London area and have thought about moving back to Croydon. Is it a goer?
There are a few modern high rise developements there, quite high spec and would buy us a lot more than what we have now, should we do it, what do people think?
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Personally I love it.
I lived in fairly central London locations for about 15 years, and only moved to Croydon for the promise of a bigger property.
I have heard the rep and was really reluctant.
I have found since that . . Croydon is big. It has some really shit bits and some really posh bits.
. . and yes it is the greenest borough. I go running though the various parks and woods about three or four times a week, plenty to choose from.

I guess it depends on what you want out of your location though. I personally wouldn't move here for the modern highrise developments. They look horrible and don't apear to be in very nice locations from what I have seen.
 
Utopia said:
My brother lived in Croydon for 6 years so i've visited area quite a bit. My advice to you would be - If you've got any other option, ANYWHERE, take it, Croydon's an utter shithole....the only positive is the multitude of travel options that take you away from the desolate, violent, souless, drab place.
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Croydon is BIG.
It most certainly is not all a shithole.
 
Utopia said:
He lived in 4 properties over the 6 years in most of the areas of Croydon, he also had quite a few friends in different areas of Croydon which we sadly visited......indeed it is not a 'shithole' moreso a blend of 'shitholes'.
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Most of the areas of Croydon? 4 places?

Well I have lived here for ten years in a couple of places and it isn't a shit hole. However I have also been to many other parts and they are indeed utter shit holes.
There is not much call for visiting some of the nicer (are I say lovely) suburbs of Croydon if you don't live there.

When I lived in my shit hole in SE1 I didn't hang out by the nice houses on the other side of town.


So I guess I am wrong then and I live in a shithole in denial because you brother lives in some shit places?
 
ATOMIC SUPLEX said:
Well I have lived here for ten years in a couple of places and it isn't a shit hole. However I have also been to many other parts and they are indeed utter shit holes.
There is not much call for visiting some of the nicer (are I say lovely) suburbs of Croydon if you don't live there.

When I lived in my shit hole in SE1 I didn't hang out by the nice houses on the other side of town.
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Fair enough, maybe I was just unlucky where I visited! .....all I can say is I won't be returning to Croydon in any hurry!
 
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