I was joking VP!
I've just found a Facebook page (Handpicked Brixton), where they're discussing whether they should be called Brixtonites, Brixtonians and other stuff.
One poster looks suspiciously like a poster from on here and states: Trendy Newcomer Twats
Another says "I alternate between saying 'Brixtoner' or 'Brixtonite'. I used to say Bricks or Brixsters"
"Brixtonian" and "Brixtonite" for me, or "SW2er" if I'm feeling elitist.
Actually, "Brixsters" is a good alternative name for the cupcake-munching nu-Brixton crowd, a cross between "Brixton" and "hipsters".
There's been other waves of gentrification in the past, but this is the first one that looks like it's going to wash away a lot of what is good about Brixton.
One of them on that page suggested Brixtopolitan
Fuck me sideways with my best brown boots!
Not only is it sticky on the tongue, it shows total ignorance of the language. A "polis", on modern usage is a community bound together by common values and community concerns. These nu-Brixton types have as much to do with my community as the Pope has to do with good childminding practice!
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yes, that's what I thought, but then again, it was just greed, supply and demand kind of thing, that's why we questioned it ( whole ethos of the squatting scene was to not make profit) but, yes, kind of led to its own end, commercialised itself to death (after money, drug dealers caught on to the cash flow and bla bla, before you know it it was mayhem.)
true, Costabour Lane , 'enjoy a run' in the parks, you are bound to have to run at some point, so get fit
but they have balconies, I think they are called Embassy apartments, how posh lol, I live at 13 Embassy Apt., Coldharbour Lane, sounds like Chelsea. It's Camber Sands, sorry well anyway
Their reality is continually evolving. Look at this pic on their page headed "Boutique Brixton living"
