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Ack! I love that place!

Wanting to live in an area which isn't changing and deciding to move to Dulwich four years ago sounds like a complete mismatch to me - what did you expect exactly?

Botany Bay! http://www.visitthanet.co.uk/attractions/botany-bay/8670

Where exactly is Nunhead Village? Between Packham Rye Park and Nunhead station?

It seems domestic operators max out around 20-50 Mbit/s up. If you need faster than that there are lots of commercial vendors in London that can make that happen, but it tends to be very expensive indeed. As an example, http://www.sohonet.com/ seems to be the common network provider amongst a lot of media companies, offering up to 10Gbit fiber solutions on dedicated fiber.

I am on BT fiber in Honor Oak Park - tests give me 75 down, 20 up. https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/21107/193181/SPpfDBf3HFvXFKD/Screen%20Shot%202014-05-21%20at%2016.40.24.png

What up and down speed do you have at the moment? You can use for example http://www.speedtest.net/ to check.

Thanks for the tip Mrs TP, will check out the local driving schools!

Hi gang, I haven't been driving for a few years and I have never driven a car in the UK. Most of my driving was in scandinavia, so I have never driven on the left side of the road. Now I am thinking of getting a car, but I think I need to take a couple of driving lessons, both to get back into the groove but perhaps more importantly to get used to driving in London. If anyone has got a local driving instructor that they could recommend that would be much appreciated! Thanks!

We recently got set up with http://www.verisure.co.uk which has been great so far.

This looks like a fairly normal semi, just came on the market for 1.15M: http://www.haart.co.uk/buying/4-bedroom-semi-for-sale/east+dulwich-london-se22/hrt023608358/

Any chance you could post a picture?

Some more advice specifically relating to bumblebees: http://bumblebeeconservation.org/about-bees/faqs/moving-bumblebee-nests

oh sorry! Good point! I was a bit in hurry doing the map and struggling a bit with the new google maps interface! Yes, this is a very important point! That roundabout is scary... Much better as katanita suggests to use the Meadow Row/Rockingham street cycle bypass!

Here's the route I have been cycling to Soho for the past couple of years. All back streets, safety over speed. Takes about 45 minutes. Cycling in London is amazing! https://mapsengine.google.com/map/viewer?mid=zqzxpUQbL2dU.kChdBBuYDR5c

There seems to be a text message service you can use here: http://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/en/power-cuts/Receive-text-updates-during-power-cuts.html Most modern home alarm systems will notify you too if the power cut is longer than a couple of minutes.

For us (in honor oak park), power was out for about 2 seconds.

Also check out Babur in Honor Oak Park: http://www.babur.info

You may want to consider a solution such as wordpress or bootstrap where content is separated from style and where there are defaults and stylesheets that works out of the box. Many such web frameworks will handle browsers, resolution, mobile, SKUs etc. automatically for you. This makes it a lot easier to build a site which works everywhere, looks nice and consistent. And the maintainer can spend more time on the content side and less time worrying about technology aspects. :)

Do you guys think the further gentrification of nearby areas (Forest Hill, Honor Oak Park, even Catford) will even out the pricing situation? What will SE22/SE23 look like price wise 12-18 months from now?

The Horniman aquarium has got a nice collection!

> House prices have tripled since 1996. In 1985 the average house cost 3.4x the average wage. Now it is 6.1x and in London it as almost 9x. Nine times? That in itself is a rather alarming figure. What's that data based on? Curious to learn more about that 9x in particular. Thanks!

Here's an interesting article to contrast the current situation in Britain: http://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/02/02/in-worlds-best-run-economy-home-prices-just-keep-falling-because-thats-what-home-prices-are-supposed-to-do/

20 mph is around 9 meters per second. A reaction time of 0.5 seconds is often quoted as an "average" time for a normal driver. According to google, once you slam the breaks, a typical breaking distance before you reach a standstill is about 6 meters for 20mph. So from the moment that the driver spots the person until having reached a complete stop is 4.5 + 6 =~ 10m, not an inconsiderable distance!

Lewisham council has a pretty good system for reporting stuff like this - they tend to follow up and action things very quickly: http://www.lovelewisham.org/reports