The man in the shack

Nicholas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > East Dulwich, known as nappy valley,and bugaboo > village. Dream on its a nice place to live but its > no village. > > In my opinion house/flat prices well inflated. > Some nice gastro pubs,shops etc. > > I cant help thinking that the few locals left from > the past might just feel a little intimidated by > the way it has changed. Intimidated? No. I don?t think so. The idea that in "2000 and just before I moved in" East Dulwich was really different seems a common delusion among recent arrivals. However it is a delusion. East Dulwich has been changing continuously for a lot longer than the thirty five plus years I have lived here. There was a cinema here once, so the "glory days" were long before the arrival of a mere supermarket. Most of the old residents, those here when we moved in, have died over the years. This happens eventually to everybody. There is nothing new about yuppies, for want of a better word, moving into East Dulwich. This is a trend that has been going on for at least twenty years. Old people die, younger people, yuppies, buy their house and move in, remodel the house and breed. These people are totally innocuous and really easy to ignore. It is not as if I have ever found myself confronted by a yuppy. Their shops, which they seem so proud of, I just walk past. Generally I would only notice a change if it affected something I used. The loss of the car spares shop near the library is regrettable, but I was indifferent to most of what was on Lordship Lane / Northcross Road before what is there now so I remain indifferent. East Dulwich has always been a nice place to live, the addition of a few hundred bourgeois buggy pushers is really neither here nor there. On the subject of Peckham, I?m sure the many thousands of shoppers thronging Rye Lane today would not be interested in your opinions, even if they knew you existed and thought you were worth caring about. Peckham is really larger than just Rye Lane. There are many quite large, expensive looking houses just of Rye lane that would not look out of place in an English country village.