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nutty Wrote:

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> "excellent schools" *splutter*

>

> depends on whether you live in the postage stamped

> size catchment area of the ones mentioned, or can

> afford to go private....



Have to agree Nutty, although the primary schools are getting better, they are still pretty average (Dulwich Village CofE accepted) and secondary schools mmmm, yet all the articles/estate agents go on and on about this, I presume it's the private ones plus the fact that most estate agents are about 17 and have no idea about how good the actual schools are and thus a myth is born to naive planning family couples who haven't really looked at the scores.

Keef Wrote:

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> Dulwich & Sydenham woods begin at the top of

> Lordship Lane. That's pretty impressive open-space

> for zone2.

>

> Very true, but I'm not sure any of it is actually

> in SE22.


And it's not in Zone 2 either.

Stop moaning everyone....it's as good a place as any in London. It has issues etc...it's just a crap piece of journalism in a crap newspaper. But it's free advertising. Just accept it for what it is! Don't take life too seriously Mr/Mrs/Ms East Dulwich!

DJKillaQueen Wrote:

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> I think it's just a media rouse by the journo to

> push local house prices up....she/he probably owns

> one and is trying to sell >:D<


My chips are tasting strange, what could it be? Great Scott, it's, it's URINE!!!!

Don't think she can be local as Waverley school was long since pulled down and replaced by Harris.

Can't say I've ever seen Sue Perkins around either (though maybe she's keeping a low profile) - I

thought perhaps she meant Jenny Eclair...

nutty Wrote:

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...or can

> afford to go private....


Oh come now nutty, this is for readers of The Times.


I think it's brilliant that we have something like Dulwich and Sydenham Woods right here in zone 2.

I like living here - I like the places and the people - I like saying good morning to total strangers and I appreciate the community feel


I don't understand why people who don't like living here don't just move?


I liked it here even when the schools quoted were in special measures

Curmudgeon Wrote:

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> I like living here - I like the places and the

> people - I like saying good morning to total

> strangers and I appreciate the community feel


I'm with Curmudgeon. It's a great place.


Now likely to face an influx of Times readers, which will ruin it, of course.

Mmmm... creatively written while looking through rose tinted glasses. Behind every great property page there is a great estate agent.


Of course it's the sort of thing the gullible lap up. The thoughts of women cycling up and down in all their flowery organic loveliness, and rosy cheeked children playing in all the open spaces is a great way to 'talk-up' buying a poky, over priced semi on a crowded Victorian street in a minor South East London suburb, with dodgy transport links. The journalistic equivalent to Harry & Paul's "I Saw You Coming".

Lazy smug hacks seem to constantly big up the hood. Then again, they are hardly likely to describe the place where their 3 bed semi with 40ft garden, loft conversion, period features and GCH ( Not tested )lies, as a crime ridden crack hellhole.


This however can make refreshing change from repetitive, off the shelf articles on glamping or shitty beach huts in Whitstable that these uninspired shitehawks usually churn out.

goose91 Wrote:

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> I want to know what eater81 thinks about the

> piece.

>

>

> Eater81 was banned from the form for voicing his

> opinion on this piece.


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Registered and made a first post just to say that?


Strange :))

god, you people are appalling. so desperate to scribble down angst and spite. the paper was being nice about where we live for chrissake1 i live in east dulwich and I like it. and LL IS in se22. if you moaners don't like it here, clear off.none of us will miss you

Puzzled, I'm, um, puzzled by your response.


Reading through the thread there seems to be a mix of people saying they love it round here, people saying the article is a bit OTT and cynics suggesting it's all about property prices. The only real angst is from huncamunca and he's like that about everything. I expect eater81's post was pretty angsty and spiteful, but I didn't see it before it was deleted, so can't say for sure.


Seems a bit harsh to brand everyone as appaling and desperate...

ED is a great area there is no doubt about that and i do agree with annaj about the harshness of what was/is said but do also agree with puzzled too about it being a nice area and respect to him/her for just trying to look out for it.

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