Crouch End was the best. Where else is worth looking at?
I need a 2 bedroom place paying £800 p/m max (i.e £400 p/m for each room - exclusive of bill). Good tube/buses. Nice neighbourhoods w/ nice restaurants and parks.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 1 August 2005 10:53 (twenty years ago)
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 1 August 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)
― stelf)xxxx, Monday, 1 August 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)
When you say London Boroughs, do you mean administrative areas? Crouch End is (mainly) in Harringey, as is Turnpike Lane. Tufnell Park is in Islington (Yes? Though some bits might Camden border), and Stoke Newington is mainly Hackney (though Islington Border in places).
The key question I would say may well be transport. Crouch End is not on the tube, nor is Stoke Newington, but if you know where you are going then the right bus will be availible.
I live in Crocuh End, which should not sway you in the slightest.
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:01 (twenty years ago)
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)
Nik, have you considered South London at all? I would if my place of work was more central, as much as North (or East or West).
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:05 (twenty years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)
― spontine (cis), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)
Pete's insistence that the absence of tube is not necessarily a disaster also makes sense. The overground railway tends to play a substantial, and substantially happy, part in the lives of many who live in South London.
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)
i quite like all these places, for varying reasons
you say you need to be near tube though, which writes off crouchend and stokenewington. tufnell park may be a bit pricey? turnpike lane is quite rough and ready, and im not sure theres any nice parks there
what about finsbury park or archway? whitechapel might be good, but again, not sure about the parks. stratford?
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)
― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:23 (twenty years ago)
― spontine (cis), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)
― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:24 (twenty years ago)
― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:26 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:27 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:30 (twenty years ago)
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:32 (twenty years ago)
don't know about prices though, and the neighbourhood isn't really that amazing. also bethnal green road for some reason smelled of poo at random intervals last night.
― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:35 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 11:36 (twenty years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 11:40 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:41 (twenty years ago)
Yup. I suggest Wandsworth, though you might have to argue your case against the edgy East Londoners and the head-in-the-sand North Londoners who pretend South London doesn't exist. Lowest council tax in Britain, too, if that's a help.
― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)
That's bobbins, N_RQ! Parts of Tufnell Park might as well be Kentish Town, I'll grant that, but not Archway. As for Highgate... well, the tube station isn't in Highgate, it's somewhere else entirely, but just because it's about five places loosely linked together doesn't make it a fiction.
Thinking of down Finsbury Park way, I'm still pretty fond of Manor House & the Seven Sisters road in general; the greengrocers' (argh where apostrophe? greengrocer's'?) etc are really, really good.
― spontine (cis), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Monday, 1 August 2005 12:10 (twenty years ago)
Clapton (Upper, Common)Stamford HillHackney (Downs, London Fields, NOT Homerton or Wick)Kentish TownArchway/Upper HollowayHighbury (parallel west of Newington Green)Dalston (parallel east of Newington Green)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:17 (twenty years ago)
― stelf)xxxx, Monday, 1 August 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 12:35 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)
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― ken c (ken c), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:39 (twenty years ago)
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― suzy (suzy), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)
― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 August 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)
is it just a british thing to talk about places to live purely in terms of bedrooms and not to have any idea of m2 or anything? like in europe/america it seems standard to talk about flast and stuff in terms of how big they are actually. i got laughed at in spain when i said that i had no idea how big my flat was actually, and couldnt even hazrad a guess.
― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)
― Ed (dali), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)
many xposts: I'll hopefully be working in Chancery Lane;
2 of my friends live within walking distance of each other in Stoke Newington, so I'm tempted to move there; buses seem to get you Liverpool St in 25min so would work.
Turnpike Lane - I wasnt too impressed with - even if the Cyprus Potato Marketing Board and a cool Polish food shop are locate there
Crouch End doesnt seem too much of hassle transport wise - got bus to Turnpike Lane which took 7 mins.
I basically looking at areas whose names I like the sound off (or have heard on St Etienne songs) - Maida Vale is one to look at the next time;
Previously lived really central and dont foresee any benefit in it given the rate/room size axis in prev places in Bayswater, nr. Baker St and Gt. Portland St.
No one I personally know has recommended South London; although Dulwich seemed okay. Other than that I only know Kingston which is too far.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 1 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)
― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Monday, 1 August 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)
when we were driving back from the funeral it was the first time i'd ever travelled into london from the east and it was like a Bizarro version of the much more familiar (to me) western approach. Going through Newbury Park, Gants Hill etc. was EXACTLY like coming in via Greenford and Perivale - almost symmetrical in structure. Didn't exactly capture my imagination, though, and mark s expressed astonishment that anyone would want to undertake such a dull & massive commute every day.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 06:55 (twenty years ago)
― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)
― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)
I noticed that when we drove out of London. With the Newham docks, Tilbury etc. close at hand, and the day's general greyness, it literally did look like the ends of the earth, a terminal terminus - you can understand why Iain Sinclair's into it so much, with the Procter & Gamble factory, Carfax Abbey and so on.
The really weird thing was how so much of east London (i.e. Commercial Road/East India Dock Road/A13) looked like the Lanarkshire I knew from 30 years ago; blocks of flats in the same strange colour schemes (lime green and salmon pink?), chintzy, down-at-heel shopping malls in Poplar (Kenny's Pop-In sounds exactly like the kind of shop you would have got in Bellshill or Craigneuk), the imposing but boarded up Limehouse Public Library, the gigantic art deco Seaman's Mission. Whereas if you come in from the A40/west London end (as I did for the best part of 20 years) the first thing that instinctively comes to mind is: Richard Briers. Different world altogether, if a strangely parallel one.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 08:33 (twenty years ago)
― stelf)xxxx, Thursday, 11 August 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago)
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago)
Good work, Steve and Stelfxxxx. I shall have to aquaint you with the Eclipse. Best pub for miles around. Big jukebox full of 60's soul. Sofas, candles, nice atmosphere. Not the normal Clapton boozer.
― Mikey G (Mikey G), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago)
(Funny, cause I'm from South London, but had my birthday party in Hackney. My friend, who lives in Hackney, is having her birthday party in Tulse Hill. Go figure.)
― Alce Tea-Skirt (kate), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:33 (nineteen years ago)
― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago)
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:12 (nineteen years ago)
― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:17 (nineteen years ago)
― stelf)xxxx, Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago)
and there'll be a bigass homebase just north of there open by the time you move, for all your moving-in necessities.
-- colette (a2lett...) (webmail), August 5th, 2005 11:25 AM. (a2lette) (later)
Thanks! I'm sure I went based that big Homebase when I last went to London. I'm down there again for a party in Stoke New'ton so will have a wander around.
As long as I can bike to my friends' in Stoke in less than 20 min, I'll be happy.
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago)
I meant, I'm sure I went past that big Homebase...
― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Thursday, 11 August 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago)
Or maybe even ::gasp:: fuck off entirely and move to Kent?
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 17 October 2005 13:30 (nineteen years ago)
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― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago)
― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago)
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― Paranoid Spice (kate), Monday, 17 October 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago)
― tosser, Monday, 17 October 2005 17:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:46 (nineteen years ago)
(full disclosure: that rotting carcass of a building was all I saw out my bedroom window except for the new Wembley arch)
― tosser, Monday, 17 October 2005 17:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:49 (nineteen years ago)
do you remember that horrific murder in roe green park?
― Munki (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 October 2005 17:50 (nineteen years ago)
Northwick Park hospital remains the worst building I have ever seen in my life.
― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 08:09 (nineteen years ago)
I'm living in Archway, but was considering a place up around Finsbury Park. I've been to the music quiz at the Dairy on Stroud Green Rd, and that whole area doesn't seem too bad, but I don't know the area around the station itself.
Or maybe just Archway again. People seem to write off Archway, but you can get a real decent sized place for cheap.
― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)
― Pete (Pete), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)
― POOP BITCH (Mandee), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)
― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 13 February 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)
Ah, the ferry and the foot tunnel and...old ships! W(h)oot!
But SE18 is fairly grim besides...
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)
― terry lennox. (gareth), Monday, 13 February 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)
― chap who would dare to be completely sober on the internet (chap), Monday, 13 February 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)
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