London's gentrification - The economist


By cheeseherder at 2013-08-12 18:51:11
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2013-08-13 17:19:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
What happens when you ship out poor communities is you mislay the culture and replace it with sterile, carbon copies of other earlier gentrified areas.

There are now no reasonably priced places to eat out, no record shops, no low-cost markets, no sensibly priced accomodation, no free parties...just a modern playground for people who fritter away a lot of disposable income enjoying their scarce free time.

You're thinking from a different generation. The free parties are still there, they rotate and shout outs work by Facebook, twitter etc

Cheap markets can be there but there are a lot of pop up venues. Anyway reduced tat is online now.

Record stores? Is this the 90s? Spotify dear boy. The cuisine is varied and great cut-rate eats can be had.

Obviously it doesn't all go down overnight, but that cheap eat place will eventually turn out to be something else. Empty warehouses are now worth something owed to their location, so free parties go elsewhere. Record shops are associated to the wellbeing of the local music scene.

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2013-08-13 20:33:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
What happens when you ship out poor communities is you mislay the culture and replace it with sterile, carbon copies of other earlier gentrified areas.

There are now no reasonably priced places to eat out, no record shops, no low-cost markets, no sensibly priced accomodation, no free parties...just a modern playground for people who fritter away a lot of disposable income enjoying their scarce free time.

You're thinking from a different generation. The free parties are still there, they rotate and shout outs work by Facebook, twitter etc

Cheap markets can be there but there are a lot of pop up venues. Anyway reduced tat is online now.

Record stores? Is this the 90s? Spotify dear boy. The cuisine is varied and great cut-rate eats can be had.

Obviously it doesn't all go down overnight, but that cheap eat place will eventually turn out to be something else. Empty warehouses are now worth something owed to their location, so free parties go elsewhere. Record shops are associated to the wellbeing of the local music scene.
You are correct I agree. I have lived in Notting hill and Ladbroke Grove I still live in close proximity now & know folks who have lived there decades.

The lucky ones who have been able to have enough money to stay or bought when the houses went cheap say the same. The area loses its charm in a way & the people who made it what it was become squeezed out for new middle class money.

The rents expand & you get more chain shops & resteraunts than the cheap indepedant ones that made the place what it was in the first place. The coolest pubs close down for up market bars with crap music & tosser clientel since you can make more money that way.

Record shops & music venues can no longer pay for the rent increases & you lose part of the music scene that one time was there.

Camden Town is also gonna change so much in the next few years with the building plans & movement of council tenants that is in the course of happening.

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2013-08-13 23:56:38

colossal opinion piece, it's all hearsay.

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2013-08-14 04:24:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
LOL.The day Plaistow becomes gentrified I'm moving the fuck out of London. Fuck that.

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2013-08-14 04:50:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
LOL.The day Plaistow becomes gentrified I'm moving the fuck out of London. Fuck that.
Mate it's happening. The middle class are breeding comparable fucking rabbits I swear.

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2013-08-14 08:27:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
LOL.The day Plaistow becomes gentrified I'm moving the fuck out of London. Fuck that.
Mate it's happening. The middle class are breeding comparable fucking rabbits I swear.
I live in Stepney, there are four middle class families with a sum of 6 children under 2 within 20 yards of my house. It's an infestation, I tells ya.

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2013-08-14 08:34:38

colossal opinion piece, it's all hearsay.
To an extent, but (apologies for labouring the point), have you walked around Brixton Village recently?! It's utterly mental.

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2013-08-14 09:09:38

The gentrification is becoming outrageous Tbh. Not sure if it's good or bad, I'm edging towards good. But I was driving through east London the other week, and I thought to myself, where the Fuck are all the deprived people supposed to go now? Even Stratford is now booming.
They go to illford. Everyone is little by little getting priced out.
Yeah that makes sense. I was in fact looking for an answer so good job. Plaistow is getting gentrified next I've heard. East London really will be one big middle class play ground. And at the same time I'm seeing a lot of people being pulled up into it. It's not altogether bad. The black middle class is developing very quickly.
LOL.The day Plaistow becomes gentrified I'm moving the fuck out of London. Fuck that.
Mate it's happening. The middle class are breeding comparable fucking rabbits I swear.
I live in Stepney, there are four middle class families with a sum of 6 children under 2 within 20 yards of my house. It's an infestation, I tells ya.
It's given me a fresh perspective on immigration I tell you.

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