Can I recommend people read a report on "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion"? that explains exactly how to skew the property market in Hackney in favour of a small well organised conspiracy.
Garage boss: I'm being driven out of Hackney by hipsters
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cesare
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Nicely put.
andysays
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Hey, they were growing beards and other distinctive hair features long before it was fashionable
SpookyFrank
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Is this bubble not gonna burst when all those trust funds finally run out? A small industrial unit at over £1000 a week, there's no way that space is ever gonna be profitable unless it's used as a meth lab or something.
Maybe this whole hipster thing is just being used as a money pit to create losses for the benefit of the taxman. Whatever income you can't move offshore, you just give it to your idiot children to piss down the drain.
Maybe this whole hipster thing is just being used as a money pit to create losses for the benefit of the taxman. Whatever income you can't move offshore, you just give it to your idiot children to piss down the drain.
Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
The urge to be a dodgy, secretive, mendacious, grasping, tax-avoiding scumbag is blind to colour and creed. Why mention their Jewishness? There are plenty of cunts in your part of the world (the S.E.) and, indeed, everywhere else who indulge in such practises and they aren't Jews -orthodox or otherwise.
FridgeMagnet
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It's not powered by trust funds or in fact "arty types" at all. The young moneyed middle classes have certain fashions but it's no different to going to wine bars and listening to Huey Lewis & The News in the 80s. Yuppies selling to yuppies.
Who owns these craft breweries, pop up businesses, surely you have to have money to launch them?
Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Worse than Hitler.
but more bike workshops, and the cycle of life goes on
actually, gentrification is not a 'natural process' as some on here seem to think, in Berlin it is being robustly opposed.
TBH factories in Hackneywick replaced housing that was there in the early 20C. My Great Grandmother lived on the street adjacent to that White House Crate place. Which business did his 23 year old one replace.
There's always been population churn in London. Important not to confuse that with wider property price crisis and trickle up economics.
There's always been population churn in London. Important not to confuse that with wider property price crisis and trickle up economics.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Amazing - you suggest that the process is natural then moan that people on here think the process is natural!
Are you quite sure that you'd be supportive of berlin style actions over here? If cars started getting torched, if people had paint thrown on them, had hot food thrown on them etc
Crispy
The following psytrance is baṉned: All
Hah! I like that.
(or rather, I fucking hate that)
The Chinese economy is stalling(see excellent thread on global economy) what would happen if there was a economic crash in china?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yes, but now they have colonised the space that allowed for anyone to be bohemian, different, etc, you need a lot of cash to have the full on hipster look/lifestyle,
The first comment was sarcasm, no I don't support violence on the individual, the remaining communities should if they can get more organised, like the Focus mums have.
I'm all in favour of new, small(ish) breweries, even (sometimes! 
) when they annoyingly term themselves 'craft'. And we bloody well need more of them here in or near Wales more than London needs them.
But in the case of the story in the OP, all my sympathies are with the garage man.
) when they annoyingly term themselves 'craft'. And we bloody well need more of them here in or near Wales more than London needs them.But in the case of the story in the OP, all my sympathies are with the garage man.
Why, precisely?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
yeh cos you can't get better than a kwik-fit fitterI'm all in favour of new, small(ish) breweries, even (sometimes!
But in the case of the story in the OP, all my sympathies are with the garage man.
SpookyFrank
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I'm all in favour of new, small(ish) breweries, even (sometimes!
If I were opening a brewery I'd open it in Wales, or the midlands, or somewhere where a few extra jobs would be more sorely needed. More importantly, commercial rents would be much cheaper. And you'd not be diving in to such an overcrowded market.
As for 'craft' beer, the only thing this ever seems to mean is that the beer comes in smaller containers and costs more money. It also implies the existence of non-craft beer, where they presumaby just chuck a load of stuff in a bucket, leave it for a few weeks and hope for the best. It's beer. There are only four ingredients. Where do you get off claiming that you put more 'craft' into yours athan anywhere else?
Most of these 'craft' microbreweries use modern, automated equipment anyway. The brewing equivalent of a breadmaker.
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There's actually no agreed definition of 'craft'. By anyone, and certainly not within CAMRA, where there are more types of disagreements about it than there are relevant breweries.
So in short I agree with you SpookyFrank
So in short I agree with you SpookyFrank
SpookyFrank
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I love CAMRA, such a delightfully old-fashioned bunch.
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
Aren't CAMRA still fiercely debating whether it's acceptable to drink, or even acknowledge the existence, of craft beer?
I meant the other trades he mentioned more than garages really. But if garages of that type really are having to shut down** to be replaced by much more upmarket property development, then that signifies something pretty unhealthy IMO.
**(and if you're questioning whether that's true, say why maybe?)
**(and if you're questioning whether that's true, say why maybe?)
SpookyFrank
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I expect there probably is less of a market for car repair services these days. It seems quite common for people to fuck off a fairly new, perfectly decent car and just buy a new one. My sister seems to have some kind of financing deal going that actively encourages her to get a new car every two years, it's mental.
e2a: And there's probably less bits of a modern car that a mechanic can actually fix. If the computer's gone on your new Audi I daresay you have to get Audi to sort it out for you, not Brian from down the road.
e2a: And there's probably less bits of a modern car that a mechanic can actually fix. If the computer's gone on your new Audi I daresay you have to get Audi to sort it out for you, not Brian from down the road.
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