Where In The UK Should You Actually Live?

[Queequeg]

Surely there are more Levantines in the UK than Turks.

Actually no. Apparently there's around 500 000 Turkish (or Turkish Cypriot) born in the UK and the Turkish British population'll be even bigger. I'm almost certain the Arab British population is far smaller than that.

One of my favorite random encounters was with a gay, young, lower-middle class Turkish Londoner along the Aegean who kept complaining about the "bloody Turks" at every opportunity.  It was kind of hilarious. 

[Jacob]

I also got Peckham. I live in Peckham.

So those of you actually familiar with London neighbourhood stereotypes, what do the various places allegedly indicate about us?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Fulham.

"You're a classy one, that's for sure. The word 'leafy' was made for you. Your tastes are simple but refined. An elegant and stately Fulham house by the river would suit you down to the ground."


My reward for not knowing who Craig David is 

[garbon]

My reward for not knowing who Craig David is 

I know who he is but selected that option as I don't recall liking any of his songs. Still didn't make me classier.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I also got Peckham. I live in Peckham.

So those of you actually familiar with London neighbourhood stereotypes, what do the various places allegedly indicate about us?

Let me see, it means that me and Syt are stylish and classy; Warspite and Shielbh are yobboes; you and the Larch are trendy bohemians; and that Garbon likes to go badger-spotting on Clapham Common 

[garbon]

Typical

[Sheilbh]

So those of you actually familiar with London neighbourhood stereotypes, what do the various places allegedly indicate about us?

You and Larch are in a cool, central foody area. Me and Warspite are too cool for Shoreditch/Brooklyn/Berlin/ so in an area that's in the early days of gentrification. Syt and RH are classy at a dignified pace (and possibly outraged that their near neighbourhood is filled with garish Russian oligarchs).

Garbon is in the worst place in the world.

[garbon]

Garbon is in the worst place in the world.

[katmai]

Borough as well I could stand Jacob and larch as neighbors.

[Valmy]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/robinedds/where-in-london-should-you-actually-live

I got Clapham.

Soho?

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

[Sheilbh]

Garbon is in the worst place in the world.

Sorry

[garbon]

Garbon is in the worst place in the world.

Sorry

I fail to see how it could be worse than...let's say New Jersey.

[Sheilbh]

Soho?

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

That's New York Soho (SoHo?).

Soho is central London. Historically the seedy bit of London on the edge of the theatre area: peep shows, brothels, gays and people who work in marketing. Now it's been gentrified. It's still the gayest bit of London, there's still a few sex shops and brothels but generally the media people have taken over

[Valmy]

Now it's been gentrified.

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

[Sheilbh]

I fail to see how it could be worse than...let's say New Jersey.

Australians?

Clapham's got a lovely common which makes it very nice and a few decent pubs and restaurants. Maybe for families it's great. It's also basically where the British equivalent of fratboys go and live when they move into London and get jobs in the City.

In the day the Common's full of bros extreme frisbeeing and women paying to go through Army basic training. In the night everyone's on a pub crawl, often in fancy dress that, appropriately enough, normally ends up in Inferno. When you get to Inferno's you meet someone you knew and didn't like at university. Then you do shots. Then you cry in the foetal position. Every time.

Here's a defence of Clapham:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/samjparker/11-reasons-youre-wrong-to-hate-clapham