'Bromley has all the chains and shops I actually want that are useful!'......well it just goes to show that it's a matter of perspective. I grew up in Bromley when it still had a lot of independent stores ie the old coffee grinders, a wet fish shop, greengrocers. I can't say that I had any particular fondness for it at the time but I avoid it like the plague as it is full of blow in shoppers who only come for the chain stores that have taken over the old independent shops.