Will you be in East Dulwich when you are 70?

[macroban]

Oh dear, I'm repeating myself - but nothing new there.

Prediction about the Harris Academy:

Within five years of opening:

The selection criteria will exclude most working class boys. Very few of the pupils will be from North of Peckham Road/Peckham High Street. Many parents will be those who can't afford, or won't pay, the fees for Alleyns or Dulwich College. The property prices in the East Dulwich Bermuda Triangle will double. The school will be renamed "Honor Oak".

[Louisa]

Becoming a local is embracing the culture which is already there.. and taking part in community events, supporting EXISTING local businesses.. I think all of these ideas are alien to incomers to ED..

[Brendan]

Well if you are correct Macroban maybe I will stay here.

[Louisa]

Bob I found an Ilfracombe Forum... I think i'd be one of two locals if I posted on it! lol

http://icpg.p5.org.uk/forum.html

[Brendan]

It must be difficult to go through life with such a skewed, embittered and prejudiced view of other people Louisa.

[*Bob*]

Louisa Wrote:

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> Bob I found an Ilfracombe Forum... I think i'd be

> one of two locals if I posted on it! lol

>

> http://icpg.p5.org.uk/forum.html

Ha Ha - nice one. Perhaps you should email the creator of the site, and let he or she know that forum is spelled 'FORUM' and not "FOURM". It doesn't create the right first impression on a home page.

[ClareC]

Whether you embrace the culture or not you will be one of many Londoners pushing up the house prices and making the area unaffordable for locals!

Interesting that your view is that all incomers fall within the generalisations you state, wonder whether the Devon locals will be less discriminatory than yourself ;-)

[Louisa]

It's actually surprisingly easy Brendan, give it a go! ;-)

[Brendan]

Dam I?ve risen to the bait haven?t I.

[Louisa]

ClareC Wrote:

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> Whether you embrace the culture or not you will be

> one of many Londoners pushing up the house prices

> and making the area unaffordable for locals!

>

That sure does sound familar ClareC... hehe

[mockney piers]

Wow, that site completely crashed firefox twice. What on earth do they have down in Ilfracombe? Malware factories?

[Muttley]

By a curious coincidence, my family comes from Ilfracombe (we're talking 17th century here, have visited the cemetery a couple of times). I have no intentions of returning to my roots.

[Keef]

I want to live in St Kilda, Melbourne when I'm 70.... In fact, I'd like to live there now, but it's not looking too likely at the moment :(

[Louisa]

Muttley I do hope you're not related to the notorious pirate who accidently wrecked a ship returning with goods from Ireland, which contained his duaghter. The pirate, so distressed by what he had done, recovered his daughter, and laid her to rest in a small room in Chambercombe Manor with a rose put across her chest. The room was bricked away and not dicsovered for nearly 200 years..

http://www.chambercombemanor.org.uk/index.asp

...Or maybe you just come from sheep farming stock! :)

[Administrator]

Lounged

[Muttley]

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[Muttley]

Pity to see this lounged, but since it's here, in answer to your question Louisa the answer to both is no doubt "yes".

[fish]

But of course, darling.