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My postcode has been gentrified... Please help

  • 13-05-2019 4:17am
    #1
    PH4T
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭


    My formally cool and cost effective postcode now is overrun by hipsters and bankers. Need to move.

    Where are some nice places to live for mid thirties?


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  • #2
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    Be happy your area isnt full of scumbags then.

    Jesus some people are never happy.


  • #3
    cashback
    Registered Users Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    You could try Mitcham. Having driven through it, though not for a few years, it didn't look in any danger of gentrification.


  • #4
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Erm, we moved to Manchester and live in a hipstery area there for half the price!


  • #5
    cashback
    Registered Users Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭cashback


    rainbow kirby wrote: »
    Erm, we moved to Manchester and live in a hipstery area there for half the price!

    Same. Apart from the hipstery area. Chorlton?


  • #6
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    That's the one!


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  • #7
    PH4T
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭PH4T


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Be happy your area isnt full of scumbags then.

    Jesus some people are never happy.

    I'm renting and the rent has gone through the roof is the issue!


  • #8
    ISOP
    Registered Users Posts: 415 ✭✭ISOP


    Thornton Heath or Mitcham should be right up your street


  • #9
    BrokenArrows
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭BrokenArrows


    PH4T wrote: »
    I'm renting and the rent has gone through the roof is the issue!

    Ya its the issue with renting.
    Moving to a ****ty area with cheaper rent always has the risk of being gentrified and rent getting higher.


  • #10
    boombang
    Registered Users Posts: 2,108 ✭✭✭boombang


    I've been reading another thread elsewhere on boards. I think you just need some travellers to move in.


  • #11
    Jupiter Mulligan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 525 ✭✭✭Jupiter Mulligan


    PH4T wrote: »

    My formally cool and cost effective postcode now is overrun by hipsters and bankers. Need to move.

    Formerly, surely?


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  • #12
    PH4T
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭PH4T


    BrokenArrows wrote: »
    Ya its the issue with renting.
    Moving to a ****ty area with cheaper rent always has the risk of being gentrified and rent getting higher.

    A few mates have moved to Tooting but it may get hit with the same thing.

    Similarly, places that have Crossrail coming online like Woolwich, seem to be rising in price.


  • #13
    theteal
    Registered Users Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭theteal


    A friend used to live in Tooting (not far from Mitcham I've seen mentioned earlier up the thread - have played GAA there) and it was nice back then. I was there a few times and it felt like a good place to be. There have been a few stabby stabby incidents of late iirc though.

    We moved out into proper Essex a while ago now - not like Romford which didn't know where it was. I'd give anything for a wandering hipster. The new little tap room/brewery is a welcome addition. People are nice and all but good jayzis is it Brexit central. These people want Boris in the main job too :eek:


  • #14
    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Whats all this emphasis on being south of the river anyway? Any of the young Irish I meet seem to filling up Clapham Tooting etc.
    Whats wrong with Highbury, Highgate, Holloway, Kentish Town Camden etc?


  • #15
    rainbow kirby
    Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 26,928 Mod ✭✭✭✭rainbow kirby


    Edgware wrote: »
    Whats all this emphasis on being south of the river anyway? Any of the young Irish I meet seem to filling up Clapham Tooting etc.
    Whats wrong with Highbury, Highgate, Holloway, Kentish Town Camden etc?

    I lived in Archway for 5 years...


  • #16
    g5fd6ow0hseima
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,787 ✭✭✭g5fd6ow0hseima


    Edgware wrote: »
    Whats all this emphasis on being south of the river anyway? Any of the young Irish I meet seem to filling up Clapham Tooting etc.
    Whats wrong with Highbury, Highgate, Holloway, Kentish Town Camden etc?

    Wood Green, Harringay, Tottenham too, though Tottenham itself - while holding out okay - is fast becoming the latest victim.

    Having lived there for six years I can say that the best way to judge an area is by its corner shops/off licences. If chain mini-supermarkets predominate over the likes of Indian/Turkish shops/off licences this is reflective of the middle-class residents, and the area is going to be more expensive but also duller.

    Same goes for pubs - if the area still has a functioning working class pub or two then rents aren't going to be insane. I'd go as far as saying, being terribly subjective of course, that these kinds of places also tend to have a greater community feel (if such a thing is possible in London).


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