Leaving SE London....what would you miss most about it?

[Brendan]

MrBen Wrote:

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> I agree with Woodrot.

>

> Nothing worse than halfway house "countryside" a

> la Sevenoaks, parts of suburban Surrey etc.

> Shopping at petrol stations, golf jumpers and the

> Daily Express. And so very, very boring.

Although there is much to be recommended about the prescription drug abuse and the swinging.

[woodrot]

So have you bought your own Irish Ghost estate then el Pibe ?

[Brendan]

I think he?s sold a flat in East Dulwich and bought Ireland.

[El Pibe]

Indeed, I love cashing in on others' misery.

I have an entire half-finished ghost estate all for myself where I have imported sorry looking palm trees scattered around so I can reenact the Battle of Beckton Gas Works Hue from Full Metal Jacket every weekend.

It's brilliant!!!

[maxxi]

The Croydon Tram network.

[womanofdulwich]

I would miss the variety of people. I get a bit unsettled when everyone has a fleece and wears beige. Together with cotton traders clothes.

When they say "OOOH London that nasty violent city where the riots were"... plus other non pc comments.

[Otta]

Totally agree WOD. When I first moved away from London, I was taken aback at the lack of non white faces, and that was in Liverpool, a big city. I had a girlfriend from near Boro once, and she met her first black person at the age of 21. Where she was from, there was one Chinese family, who run the Chinese take away.

So grateful to have grown up somewhere where I went to school with equal numbers of black, white and Asian kids.

[Jeremy]

I would miss London a lot... history, culture, live music, restaurants, the melting pot of nationalities and cultures. I even like seeing tourists out and about.

However, I honestly don't think that SE London has an awful lot going for it, there are only a couple of nice enclaves within it (including the Dulwich area).

[*Bob*]

I think I'd rather live in a nice bit of the shit side than a shit bit of the nice side.

[Jeremy]

Well, yes... that's the point I was trying to make. Dulwich is one of the few nice bits in an otherwise shit side of London. But, importantly, it's relatively affordable compared with the the nice bits of the nicer side of London.

[MrBen]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> I would miss the variety of people. I get a bit

> unsettled when everyone has a fleece and wears

> beige. Together with cotton traders clothes.

This could also be Dulwich Village.

[womanofdulwich]

Mr Ben- this only applies to 10% of DVillage. Its far more prevelant out of London.

[????]

lol at the thoroughly predictable prejudice about people who are 'not from here' but the home counties/Bromley etc from a bunch of people who then have the gall to go on about hideous Daily Mail views.

Oh you smug metropolitan hypocrites - many of 'you' fit in a box as easily as 'they' do.

[jelly]

I read the Daily Mail. What's the big deal?

[????]

Better to be a child abuser in these here parts...

[jelly]

What do you mean by that? My choice of newspaper isn't entirely representative of who I am.

[El Pibe]

Bit early for the stella isn't it quids?

[Huguenot]

Steps quietly away...

[jelly]

I hope for his sake that he is drunk. That was an incredibly vile and offensive comment to make.

[El Pibe]

I think he's describing the comparative esteem that mail readers are held in these parts, and may have been having a pop at the pitchfork thread in the main section rather than at you jelly.

[woodrot]

Clapham => East Dulwich => Royal Tunbridge Wells => Death

[jelly]

Comment romoved after clarification.

[StraferJack]

But what if he does have kids?

Look, if it means having a pop at Guardian readers or metropolitan liberals, he can sometimes go a little OTT

So he was standing up for you fine, upstanding (if easily offended, who knew) Mail readers, in his own way

I think he was having a pop at the wrong people tho ? the crew doing the mocking of coutry-dwelling/fashion-deprived/Mail reading types on this thread is limited to the terminally misanthropic likes of woodrot and nowt to do with liberal elites. When it comes to bashing THEM, ???? and woodrot would happily man the barricades together I suspect

So, jelly, he isn?t comparing you or any Mail readers to paedophiles. He is ?claiming? that some people on here appear to despise mail readers as much as paedophiles. Which is the sort of odd claim he makes from time to time

I normally leave him to it these days, but felt a need to stick up for him a little bit here as you have the slightly wrong end of the stick. (that often happens with Ma? erm, ok not now. But it does. Especially when paedophiles are mentioned)

[TillieTrotter]

Jelly you're obviously pretty new to the forum. Quids was, in a roundabout way, defending you!!! Guardian readers tend to look down on Mail readers....the folk on this forum are mainly Guardian readers. You'll get there in the end.

[MrBen]

woodrot Wrote:

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> Clapham => East Dulwich => Royal Tunbridge Wells

> => Death

This is pure brilliance.