Best Boozer in East Dulwich

[red devil]

Jeremy Wrote:

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> To be fair, I think everybody is struggling to

> understand your point! Different people like

> different things, isn't it as simple as that?

It's also about how you make a point. As has previously been said, doing it in a sneery, derisory manner about the place and people that gave you your 'fortune' is never going to win many plaudits...

[Seabag]

Parkdrive Wrote:

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> Seabag Wrote:

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> > Parkdrive Wrote:

> > > No she thinks that having a home which looks

> > out

> > > on to rolling hill and countryside, with

> quiet

> > > clean streets, and friendly locals is better

> > than

> > > living in London, with a property overlooking

> > the

> > > property opposite, streets full of litter,

> > > overcrowding, overpricing, ............shall

> I

> > > continue?

> >

> > No please don't, i'm feeling uncomfortable for

> > her/you, and i'm also wondering how much of

> this

> > isn't about "her"

> >

> > I'm also getting the resentful-renter vibe here

> > too

>

> Resentful renter? Are you on glue?

On glue ?

What's that supposed to mean, really ?

The feeling i'm getting is someone who's disenchanted with where they live, which is fine. But if you've invested in an area both structurally and emotionally, then that's at odds with most others who've done the same. It's a good and ever changing area, overall

However, if you're in the position of seeing property values climb beyond your reach, as many people are in London, then that's a different perspective.

I'm also sure that if you took a straw pole of those people who have moved to, or continues to live here, then they'd have a more positive view of their choices, investment and area

And the friend from the rolling hills, she's happy with her lot now I see. Except it seems a bit disingenuous, to have made so much from an investment her family made, only to come back and bad mouth the very place of her good fortune

Are you sure it's not you, projecting your feelings through her ?

Maybe copy her in, then "she" could express her views in person

[*Bob*]

Leaving aside these conceptually challenging concepts such as 'capital city' and 'rural england' for a moment:

Assuming trading-in a house on Dunstans for a rustic idyll was at least as great a swap twenty years ago as it is now - doesn't that mean she herself was an idiot for many years - right up until the point she wised-up and left the shithole?

Or has she declared herself the last non-idiot to leave town?

[El Pibe]

one of these seabag? ;-)

 

[Jeremy]

So surely just as the city is not for everyone, neither are the rolling hills and agricultural odours of Herefordshire.

I would agree that some people appear to have an over-inflated opinion of ED. But that doesn't mean it's a bad place to live, or that anyone who hasn't cashed in and upped sticks is a mug. If you want to live in London and can't/won't spend over a million for a house... it's as good an option as any.

[bob]

I thought this was about the best boozer in East Dulwich ????? Bob S

[Louisa]

Once again the usual suspects start banging on about house prices and ED vs 'the rest of the world'. Yawn.

Louisa.

[Otta]

My mate "cashed in" and moved to the stuicks a couple of years ago.

Now he feels like a mug because had he waited he'd have got a lot more cash.

[malumbu]

Blythe Hill Tavern.

[Seabag]

bob Wrote:

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> I thought this was about the best boozer in East

> Dulwich ????? Bob S

Erm...it is

And without further ado ..

"The Best Boozer in East Dulwich" goes jointly to...

Jah & Louisa

Jah could I believe, take anyone on and knock 'em down & Louisa in her own words could "drink a pub dry"

Congrats

[Jah Lush]

Thanks but I think that should be the other way round.

[Mick Mac]

Edited. Whoops just repeated a joke that had been made already and deleted it.

[titch juicy]

....and it's official.....kind of

http://londonist.com/2014/08/the-best-pubs-in-dulwich.php

[Otta]

A staggering 19 out of 81 votes.

[edcam]

And only one of them is even in Dulwich.

[Otta]

Huh?

[edcam]

They're all in East Dulwich, except the Crown & Greyhound. An entirely different place.

[El Pibe]

I wasn't aware the village had a monopoly on dulwichiness. THey are east, north and west dulwich, not 'of dulwich'

[El Pibe]

mind you they asked "We asked you to vote for the best drinking spots in and around Dulwich." though are couple of them are interpreting 'around' pretty liberally.

[edcam]

They are distinctly different areas.

[El Pibe]

and?

So are the north of england and the south of england.

[Otta]

Exactly EP. SE London, North London, East London. All London.

[Jah Lush]

I'd go along with that. The Expo would get my vote if pushed. It's certainly one of my more regular haunts than anywhere else in Dulwich.

[edcam]

El Pibe Wrote:

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> and?

> So are the north of england and the south of

> england.

You are rather missing the point. If a website about London doesn't get the distinction it's a curious state of affairs.

[Jeremy]

While East Dulwich, West Dulwich and Dulwich Village are separate districts, surely they all fall within the area of Dulwich.

I don't think it's the same situation as somewhere like Hampstead, where "Hampstead" and "Hampstead Village" are synonymous, and South & West Hampstead are considered separate areas. See also Kensington.