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KalamityKel Wrote:

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> LadyNorwood Wrote:

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> > You obviously didn't live near enough Annette

> > Curtain - it's a Lloyds Bank not a Barclays

> where

> > the staff know me by name (along with all the

> > other shops round here);

>

> I get the same treatment in HSBC on Victoria

> Street (Westminster) but I don't live there...

> dunno what that has to do with how wonderful (or

> not - depending on opinion) a particular area is

> if that what your point is? *shrugs*


It's nice in WD, not spectacular, not 'trendy', not 'edgy', it's nice - I can go into all the shops, restaurants, the bank, I know everyone by name and they know me by name. I can go into a branch of HSBC anywhere and they know my name (as it comes up on the screen when they go into my account), but they don't know that I've just had a spinal operation, or that my niece has just had a baby or that the neighbours have got builders in; if I haven't got enough money in the deli or the hairdresser or the bakery it doesn't matter, they know that I'll settle up with them as soon as I can - so yes I love living in WD, I've done the whole Islington bargain (when it was still the cheap one on the Monopoly board) and saw it rise from the ashes; I like the fact that I can go into the deli and not get laughed at and insulted if I mispronounce the name of a salami (as happened in the ED Deli) - although I'm not quite so sure I should be on first name terms with the guys in the off licence....

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