Where In The UK Should You Actually Live?

[Sheilbh]

Now it's been gentrified.

That is just because the gays are becoming mainstream and respectable.

Yeah

[Admiral Yi]

In the US gays are typically the main drivers of gentrification.

[Jacob]

In the US gays are typically the main drivers of gentrification.

I think it's more accurate to say that well-off urban professionals and the businesses which employ and cater to them, are the main driver of gentrification. This may include a larger percentage of gay people than average in the US, but it does not make the gays the main driver.

There are plenty of economically marginalized gay people; and there are plenty of straight people - and companies - involved in gentrification.

[Eddie Teach]

Soho?

I thought that was south of Houston Street in New York.

From Soho down to Brighton, I must've played them all...



I got Peckham.

[Gups]

I got Clapham as well. I've lived & worked there before and it's OK although I couldn't afford it now. The Dairy gave me one of the best meals I've had in the last 5 years and the cinema decent. There are too many rugger buggesr there though and I'm not a fan of the common - Wandsworth Common and Brockwell Park are much more interesting.

Had no idea that you were in Peckham Shelf. Very exciting place these days - loads of great bars and restauraunts springing up.

[Richard Hakluyt]

A couple of my friends bought houses in Peckham back in the 1980s. They were starting families and had large book collections so needed space, they were on good but not fantastic salaries. I guess they made a good choice 

[Gups]

A couple of my friends bought houses in Peckham back in the 1980s. They were starting families and had large book collections so needed space, they were on good but not fantastic salaries. I guess they made a good choice 

Hell yeah. There's some great houses around Pecham Rye. A 5 bedder in the early 80s would have been selling for what £15K, 20K? Nowadaays you are looking at well over a million.

My biggest financial mistake ever was not buying a 5 bed house in Brixton in the early 90s because I thought £60K was a bit steep for such a relentlessly grimy area. The same house sold a year ago for £1.5m   

[Warspite]

Peckham is the new Hackney, so the hipsters are moving in and still at the stage where they sit uncomfortably with the locals who are predominantly not white, university educated, or middle class.

Fulham is where people who work in finance and law start their families. The Australians and Saffers have moved across the water to Putney. There are some vestiges of the old white working class left in Fulham. Fun fact: Fulham is host to two football clubs -- Fulham FC, and Chelsea, which is closer to the centre of Fulham than Fulham FC is.

Clapham is a terrible place. People who live in Clapham list "the gym" as an interest.

[The Larch]

How's Shoreditch? I will be staying with a friend there this summer and apparently it's Hipster Central around there...

[Gups]

It's very hipster, but that's not totally a bad thing. Loads of good places to eat and drink.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Shoreditch is walking distance to central London too, saves all that tedious mucking about with public transport.

[Brazen]

I also got Peckham. I live in Peckham.

Lovely jubbly!

Me too, cushty!

[Admiral Yi]

I think it's more accurate to say that well-off urban professionals and the businesses which employ and cater to them, are the main driver of gentrification. This may include a larger percentage of gay people than average in the US, but it does not make the gays the main driver.

There are plenty of economically marginalized gay people; and there are plenty of straight people - and companies - involved in gentrification.

Not in my experience.  Well off professionals don't need to buy a busted down property in the slum and fix it up.

[Warspite]

Shoreditch isn't very hipster any more since it became Officially Cool.

The beardy fixie-riders all buggered off to Hackney, and then to Clapton (where there is now a creperie amongst the betting shops on murder mile) and Dalston, and I hear Camberwell is filling up with arty types now.

[Admiral Yi]

How does a Yookay hipster compare to an American hipster?