Sorry if this seems really naive but I'm thinking of moving from London to in to a house on Warwick Avenue just off Stapleton Road. The house is a stone's throw away from Stapleton Road. It's a great house and I like Easton but is that particular part of it a dangerous or unpleasant place to live? I have ME so I need to live somewhere that isn't going to be too loud and hectic but also I need to live somewhere cheap that is close to my friends in Easton because I sometimes need help with various things. I know it's got a bad reputation but is it really that bad?
Is it dangerous to live off Stapleton Road?
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Geri
wasn't born to follow
It's not *that* bad - it's not the best part of Easton but it depends what you are used to. I was going to buy a house in Fox Road, but a friend warned me against it and I'm glad I didn't now as there was a murder not that long after!
Having said that I do walk/cycle that way every day and never had any problems. I think it has improved since they built the new library and flats as there are more people around now.
Having said that I do walk/cycle that way every day and never had any problems. I think it has improved since they built the new library and flats as there are more people around now.
Hmmm not sure it's worth the risk. It's not like I'm well enough to run away or fight back and I don't want to live in fear.
I'm used to living on the SW9 side of Brixton and in Bethnal Green on Hackney Road so just about avoiding living in the rougher areas but being used to being out and about in them if that makes sense. I moved to Brixton about 7 years ago so it had already changed quite a lot by then. It never seemed rough to me anyway just had a bad reputation.
I'm used to living on the SW9 side of Brixton and in Bethnal Green on Hackney Road so just about avoiding living in the rougher areas but being used to being out and about in them if that makes sense. I moved to Brixton about 7 years ago so it had already changed quite a lot by then. It never seemed rough to me anyway just had a bad reputation.
Anyway, for the umpteenth time - Stapleton Road is perceived as dangerous by those who get nervous around poor people and ethnic minorities. I've spent most of the last three years in the vicinity and never had a single problem. Not one.
If you're a gentrifying twat, FOAD please. If not, get over it and move here if you want to
If you're a gentrifying twat, FOAD please. If not, get over it and move here if you want to
Geri
wasn't born to follow
I don't think it will be loud or hectic and I don't think it is particularly dangerous. When I was thinking about buying the house in Fox Road I didn't know the area that well and I was put off by my friend, I wouldn't be too concerned about it now especially as the Coach House has closed down.
The only slightly offputting thing is that you get a load of Polish alcoholics hanging around under the railway bridge by the cycle track, but you can avoid them easily enough.
The only slightly offputting thing is that you get a load of Polish alcoholics hanging around under the railway bridge by the cycle track, but you can avoid them easily enough.
Actually I'm in two minds about this sort of question being asked roughly all the fucking time about this bit of town. On the one hand it's intensely fucking irritating to constantly hear a fantastic part of the city being run down by fucking nobheads who have never fucking lived here. On the other hand, it keeps said fucking nobheads out of the neighbourhood so it's all gravy.
I'm not sure I've said 'fucking' enough
I'm not sure I've said 'fucking' enough
Geri
wasn't born to follow
It was about 12 years ago, maybe longer.
Ha I guess I was asking to get shit from people by the way I wrote all of the above. I wouldn't fucking worry so much about the area if I didn't have ME. I'm not going to get into a discussion about whether I'm a twat or not. If you are that bothered you can stalk me on here and decide for yourself but I doubt you are or better yet meet me in real life and call me a twat or whatever you want to my face. How are you supposed to know about an area you have hardly been around since being a kid if you don't ask? I guess I could have worded in a way that doesn't sound like I get all my information from the Mirror.
free spirit
more tea vicar?
I lived there for 6 months and didn't even realise it was supposed to be a dodgy area. I quite liked it tbh.
I'm a woman. My friends in the area says it's good but another friend got attacked on that road I don't know when or how badly though, it was just mentioned in passing. Me and a lot of my friends have been attacked or mugged at some point in London though, it's just what happens sometimes in cities. I'm not too worried after hearing from you lot. I figured most of it's reputation was based on media sensationalism.
Thora
Differently Ethical
I used to take my kid to toddler group on Stapleton Road, and catch the bus from there etc and it was fine, never had any issues. Like Geri I wouldn't be walking around on my own in the middle of the night but normal day to day activities aren't a problem.
kenny g
Sheeple Awake!
Which nation of alcoholics are preferred then?butchersapron
Bring back hanging
A whole month. Standards dropping
Possibly irrelevantly, Easton's where we'll be heading when we go to the ciderfest there on Easter Saturday (4th April)** 
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