I also used to live just off Highbury Fields, Calabria Road, 10 years ago. It was a perfect place to live, I was in my mid-twenties, no kids etc. Being there made me feel part of the life of the city, vibrant and dirty. In one direction I could pop to Highbury, in the other direction lay 15 minute trips on a routemaster into town - sitting downstairs near the back on sunny spring days - bliss. I do miss the variety of good coffee places. My agenda is a little different now. I need to live somewhere which is still very much London but at lower level - physically smaller and more town-like - and less intense. ED is perfect in that respect, the parks, houses with gardens, schools and many people quite with kind of similar outlook, profession and family status means the area can feel a bit like being a member of some kind of unspoken club. I can't imagine moving from ED to elsewhere in London. ap