South London is rough and past it's prime...

[binary_star]

...according to other Londoners:

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/01/29/north-is-intellectual-south-is-rough-west-is-posh-east-is-poor-londons-view-on-postcodes-revealed/

[maxxi]

So am I.

[Jah Lush]

Utter bollocks of course. It's quite possible the same things could have been said a century ago. Complete tosh. And, by the way, who facking cares?

[LadyDeliah]

South is better for - Green space, gardens, house prices and lower crime.

North is better for - Transport links, young people & diversity.

Well I never!

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/2014/01/08/infographic-north-vs-south-london-in-numbers/

[Louisa]

I agree South London is past it's prime, but fortunately for us in ED the miraculous knock on effect of nearby south west London has 'saved us'. We should all be so terribly grateful we aren't any further east, look at poor old Lewisham.

Louisa.

[Annette Curtain]

Or Lee Green

Brockley is building a barricade of coffee shops

Hold the fort "gritty" Camberwell

[Otta]

East London is poor? Isn't Hackney East London?

[DulwichFox]

No one likes us..

No one likes us..

No one likes us..

We don't care.

We are Millwall.

Super Millwall.

We are Millwall..

From The Den..

Millwall FC Fighting Racism.

Millwall FC Supports

Save Lewisham Hospital http://www.millwallfc.co.uk/news/article/save-lewisham-hospital-619616.aspx

Prostate Cancer UK http://prostatecanceruk.org/?gclid=CIHIpbLrtLwCFWfLtAodYm8A6w

Millwall Fox

[binary_star]

Otta Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> East London is poor? Isn't Hackney East London?

Hackney is pretty poor: http://www.hackneygazette.co.uk/news/shocking_child_poverty_map_of_london_shows_hackney_is_third_worst_affected_area_in_the_uk_1_1176263

[Otta]

That's two years old, and whilst there are undoubtedly still poor families around, I suspect the area has changed in the last two years quite a lot. Money is flooding in to Hackney these days.

[????]

you don't have to be that old to remember when Hoxton was an absolute sh1thole - and Bethnal Green even younger

[Otta]

Don't get me wrong, I know that any money in these areas is definitely a recent thing, I was just surprised to hear that people still think of E London as "poor". I mean there are still loads of poor areas in E London, but I thought the current image of Hackney and even Stratford would have glossed over all that a bit.

[Jeremy]

I guess they mainly interviewed people from north and west london!

To be honest most of east london (anything east of canary wharf and hackney) seems to be pretty grim and scruffy, with property prices to match. And the majority of SE London is just characterless and unloveable IMO, with a few exceptions.

[Louisa]

South East London contains two genuine villages, Dulwich and Blackheath, numerous conservation areas which look the same today as they did in Victorian times, Brockley is a great example of this. Our problem in this corner of the city is poor transport connections. Overground is changing that perception of isolationism, but it will take many years and until then the only areas to benefit will be the areas of zone 2 on or near an overground station and preferably close to an SW postcode - fortunately we in ED have both of these things in our favour.

Louisa.