Your morale is fragile... Like china in your hand! I've said several times that Sydenham has some lovely housing, the likes of which you won't find in Dulwich. This is because it was once rather grand (about 100 years ago), whilst ED was a place for the plebs. These days, most of those lovely big houses, are divided in to flats. In some areas, Sydenham residents look longingly at Dulwich (although they'd never admit it). When I first came across the Sydenham forum, it was a thread called something like "Middle class pub", in which several posters complained that they didn't have somewhere nice to go in their lovely area, unlike down in ED. On the other hand, there arew things about Sydenham that are great. I always say I am happy where I am, as I have all the good stuff about ED a 10 minute journey away, but I really like the feel of where I live. You've just described ED, Sydenham, Forest Hill, Brockley, Camberwell, Honor Oak, Lee, Greenwich, Blackheath... so on, and so on.