a North London Poll

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you knew it was coming. as with the london poll, ive left out the most central one

Poll Results

Option	Votes
N6: highgate	6
N16: stoke newington. stamford hill. newington green. shacklewell	4
N7: holloway. tufnell park	3
N19: upper holloway. archway. hornsey rise	2
N8: crouch end. harringey (north). hornsey. turnpike lane	2
N10: muswell hill. colney hatch	2
N15: south tottenham. seven sisters	1
N14: southgate.	1
N20: whetstone. totteridge	1
N5: highbury	1
N4: finsbury park. manor house. stroud green. harringey (south)	1
N18: upper edmonton	0
N17: tottenham	0
N21: winchmore hill. osidge	0
N2: east finchley. hampstead garden suburb. fortis green	0
N13: palmers green	0
N12: north finchley	0
N11: new southgate. bounds green?	0
N9: lower edmonton	0
N3: finchley	0
N22: wood green. alexandra palace	0

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:08 (eighteen years ago)

shit, i clicked the wrong box! i meant to click n16 as is closest to being e rather than n

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:26 (eighteen years ago)

that makes Slough better than LA because its nearer Dalston?

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:31 (eighteen years ago)

no, i mean stoke newington feels like e when you're walking through it, it doesn't feel like n. i have been to neither slough nor LA but i hazard that they aren't really like any london postcode

― lex pretend, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:33 (eighteen years ago)

I feel my passions run deeper for south London these days.

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:35 (eighteen years ago)

jesus, he's obsessed.

― koogs, Monday, 14 May 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

why have you left out n1?

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

is this favourite? or are you supposed to bigup your area?

― Frogman Henry, Monday, 14 May 2007 09:17 (eighteen years ago)

This doesn't look terribly inspiring when you look at it on paper. I mean, Osidge?

I voted for Highgate but Holloway would get my second vote. I'd expect Holloway to do well but there could be a split vote problem here.

Also no N1 = ha ha Upper Street pwned.

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, what are you talking about! You're moving to Peckham!

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I'm sure there'll be a South London poll along in a minute.

― Matt DC, Monday, 14 May 2007 10:34 (eighteen years ago)

wot no NE?

― braveclub, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:05 (eighteen years ago)

i meant wot no NW?

― braveclub, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I'm sure there'll be an NE poll along in a minute.

Oh, I'm sure there'll be an NW poll along in a minute.

― That one guy that quit, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

If there were NW, I would vote for NW6, but as there is not, I am abstaining.

I don't like North London. (Despite being born within a stone's throw of it.)

― Masonic Boom, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:07 (eighteen years ago)

I went for N10 cos I liked living there even if it is too expensive. Although bizarrely not much more expensive than Wood Green for some reason.

― Colonel Poo, Monday, 14 May 2007 11:12 (eighteen years ago)

i left out N1 for the same reason i left out wc and ec in the london poll, and left out london in the uk cities poll

there would have been a south london poll, (and e and w and nw) but marcello has beaten me to the punch

― 696, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Still wondering whether to have a boroughs poll...

Oh, why not...

― Michael Jones, Monday, 14 May 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

i went to osidge once. i went to the libary

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:23 (eighteen years ago)

which means ive been to all the postcodes bar the edmontons of n9 and n18

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:24 (eighteen years ago)

I've never been to N20 or N21. No real reason to do so.

― Marcello Carlin, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 08:38 (eighteen years ago)

totteridge is nice.

― braveclub, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:52 (eighteen years ago)

It's mentioned in a Public Image Ltd song, that's all i know about it

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:54 (eighteen years ago)

no N1 = upper street wins by default?

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

but for this poll, N7 wins obviously

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

this will surely be between n6, n7 and n16

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

i reckon N8 has a shout

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:00 (eighteen years ago)

despite lack of decent transport.

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

Having lived in N8 and N7, I prefer N7

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:01 (eighteen years ago)

But I hang out in N6 a lot, and it's prob. better than N7

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

No, I meant I hang out in N16 a lot

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:03 (eighteen years ago)

I still haven't seen the appeal of N16.

― ken c, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

I actually don't mind N16. I looked at some flats there, once upon a time - but I'm actually quite glad I didn't move there.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:04 (eighteen years ago)

It is kind of irritatingly middle class at times

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:06 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the middle classes I mind, it's the Kool Kids (tm).

They do have a lovely cemetary, though.

― Masonic Boom, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:09 (eighteen years ago)

What are Kool Kids?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

i voted for N4! i love stroud green road.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

Finsbury Park is foul tho

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:14 (eighteen years ago)

^^ good choice, it came close for me as well

― 696, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:15 (eighteen years ago)

think i've been to all but N13 and N21.

i like most of these areas, having spent so much more time in North London in the last four years. i would live in several of these areas.

It is kind of irritatingly middle class at times

all those middle class Turks eh!

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:18 (eighteen years ago)

N16 is great, apart from Fresh & Wild, which is without exaggeration the worst place on earth.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

don't exaggerate. i go there once a fortnight.

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, something of an exaggeration, but I can't stand the place. The farmers market on a Saturday is good, though.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

same clientele

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

Those cutesy children's shops on Church Street are pretty nauseating

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

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True. Maybe its the fact that its outside, and so feels less like you're going to be run over by an expensive children's buggy at any moment.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

The ultra-Orthodox community in Stamford Hill helps make N16 more exotic

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:43 (eighteen years ago)

I've been to all these except N20, N21 and N12 although I have been through them on buses. Lived in N22, N10 and (briefly) N9. Worked in N14 for a few months. Most of those places were OK although N9 incredibly ugly due to monstrous 30 storey tower blocks and run-down shopping area & car park, which they've now redeveloped, so it's not so bad.

― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

yes. i do not like edmonton at all. sorry.

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

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The Stamford Hill Jewish community have great hats, often to be seen covered in plastic bags when it rains. Does anyone know what these are called?

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, but a guy I know who was visiting from Scotland told he woke up with a hangover in Stamford Hill one morning and looked out the window and saw "All these guys walking about with giant fruit pastilles on their heads"

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasidic_Jew#headgear

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say they were more like furry boxes attached to a skull cap, but I can certainly see the fruit pastille thing!

Thanks for the link blueski- my Google searching failed me.

― Neil S, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

i'm v intrigued by how the tradition of the Shtreimel, Kolpik etc. has endured in Stamford Hill.

― blueski, Tuesday, 15 May 2007 12:56 (eighteen years ago)

They're not exactly open to ideas of modernisation round there

― Tom D., Tuesday, 15 May 2007 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

i suppose this went pretty much as expected

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 05:48 (eighteen years ago)

is inaccurate - as i said at the start i ticked the wrong box by mistake ie highgate instead of s newington. so really it's a 5-5 dead heat

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

Seeing all those names lined up like that, I think they look like someone should do a North London cover version of It's Grim Up North.

― StanM, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

perhaps there were other stupid people that distorted the poll also because they couldnt read

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:43 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't notice before but i like the question mark after bounds green.

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:27 (eighteen years ago)

i'm the only person who chase finsbury park??? for shame

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

chose

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:49 (eighteen years ago)

i would live near manor house. i would love to be able to look out my bedroom window and see the reservoir waters, the castle and perhaps the gherkin in the background. but the old flats are too grotty and the new ones too expensive no doubt.

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:51 (eighteen years ago)

i would have chosen finsbury park. it just got pipped to the post by holloway

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

but finsbury park is horrible

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:08 (eighteen years ago)

its a perfect way to spend a summer evening, with a girl by your side, and some new leather pants on. just ask tracer

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think Lex is into leathers

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

or girls, but that's besides the point! ;-)

― Masonic Boom, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

or girls

finsbury park is prob the worst ldn park i've been in

haha xp!

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:16 (eighteen years ago)

^^ i wouldnt pay too much heed to what this one says

― 696, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

how does someone actually work up this much dislike for, of all things, a big London park?

― blueski, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it had girls wearing leather pants in it?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

i am serene, i have no hate in my soul, it is just that finsbury park falls short of my standards

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 10:24 (eighteen years ago)

I missed it! My buddy's postal code got shut out, too. Curses. Upper Edmonton probably isn't that good anyway.

― Will M., Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

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