Nunhead scoops top billing for early deaths

[*Bob*]

Congratulations to our neighbours in Nunhead:

A clean sweep - lowest male and female life expectancy in the whole of London!

There is that very attractive cemetery, I suppose. Coincidence?

[Dopamine1979]

Source?

[*Bob*]

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/rich-londoners-live-up-to-25-years-longer-than-people-from-poorer-parts-of-the-capital-9058039.html

76 .. still, not bad though, eh?

More than all my male forebears. I'd have been happy with that if you'd have asked me 20 years ago.

[????]

I'm just waiting for Sue's "the Ivy House is a great venue for a wake" post

[Otta]

Hahahahaha!

[FJDGoose]

You guys are funny

[unlurked]

???? Wrote:

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> I'm just waiting for Sue's "the Ivy House is a

> great venue for a wake" post

Ahahaha! Better not move there now, Sue!

[Jeremy]

The Ivy House? Never heard of it. Please tell me more.

[PeckhamRose]

OK I now live in East East Dulwich.

When the cartogrophers were drawing the official line between USA and Canada they came to a little farmhouse and asked the guy which side of the line he'd like them to place him on. He said Stick me on the USA side, I'm sick of these cold Canadian winters.

[hpsaucey]

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> OK I now live in East East Dulwich.

> When the cartogrophers were drawing the official

> line between USA and Canada they came to a little

> farmhouse and asked the guy which side of the line

> he'd like them to place him on. He said Stick me

> on the USA side, I'm sick of these cold Canadian

> winters.

Very good!

[indiepanda]

Curious article - quotes Nunhead as the area with lowest life expectancy, then in the interviews with the people from the poorest areas it's Newham they are from not Nunhead.

[Jah Lush]

Sub-editors are a dying breed.

[BrandNewGuy]

indiepanda Wrote:

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> Curious article - quotes Nunhead as the area with

> lowest life expectancy, then in the interviews

> with the people from the poorest areas it's Newham

> they are from not Nunhead.

Agreed. This looked not quite right from the start.

[*Bob*]

They did try to do the interviews in Nunhead, but many of the participants keeled over dead before they finish.

[Alan Medic]

Is Nunhead the new Switzerland?

[Mustard]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/rich-londone

> rs-live-up-to-25-years-longer-than-people-from-poo

> rer-parts-of-the-capital-9058039.html

>

> 76 .. still, not bad though, eh?

>

>

> More than all my male forebears. I'd have been

> happy with that if you'd have asked me 20 years

> ago.

The article said 71 for males and 76 for females.

[*Bob*]

*bugger*

[*Bob*]

Nunhead resident Mary Chippy told us: "I much prefer the lower life expectancy here in Nunhead to that of East Dulwich. Here, I can die in a three bed house with a garden for the same price as a pokey flat just across the park. Albeit slightly sooner."

[ChristineC]

There's a map in the Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan (PNAAP) showing the 'most deprived' areas of Southwark. (It's on the www.southwark.gov.uk site) It looks as if the 'most deprived' area in Nunhead is the Cossall Estate. I don't think many people would consider this to be in Nunhead! (Though it is in Nunhead local government ward).