diego wrote:I don't see your point

Rimbaud III is using Stokey as a shorthand for massive gentrification/yummy mummies and associated berks who have increasingly encroached on this once easy going, cheap and wonderfully diverse corner of North London. It still has lots going for it (The Shakespeare – yay) but is now largely unaffordable and an annex of Islington. Where you could once buy secondhand records from Totem you'd now be confronted with an emporium selling hemp baby slings. It's changed a lot in the last five years or so.

cjh wrote:

diego wrote:I don't see your point

Rimbaud III is using Stokey as a shorthand for massive gentrification/yummy mummies and associated berks who have increasingly encroached on this once easy going, cheap and wonderfully diverse corner of North London. It still has lots going for it (The Shakespeare – yay) but is now largely unaffordable and an annex of Islington. Where you could once buy secondhand records from Totem you'd now be confronted with an emporium selling hemp baby slings. It's changed a lot in the last five years or so.

I'm sad to hear that it changed so much.
I have lived there from 1999 until 2001, and being a student at that time, the rents were pretty affordable.

I still remember, while walking back home, regularly hearing Quickspace rehearsing.

cjh wrote:Where you could once buy secondhand records from Totem you'd now be confronted with an emporium selling hemp baby slings.

Definitely very sad!!!!
What a great little record shop.

cjh wrote:an emporium selling hemp baby slings.

I bet you bought one.

cjh wrote:

diego wrote:I don't see your point

Rimbaud III is using Stokey as a shorthand for massive gentrification/yummy mummies and associated berks who have increasingly encroached on this once easy going, cheap and wonderfully diverse corner of North London. It still has lots going for it (The Shakespeare – yay) but is now largely unaffordable and an annex of Islington. Where you could once buy secondhand records from Totem you'd now be confronted with an emporium selling hemp baby slings. It's changed a lot in the last five years or so.

Articulately and concisely NAILED.

diego wrote:I'm sad to hear that it changed so much.
I have lived there from 1999 until 2001, and being a student at that time, the rents were pretty affordable.

Yep, that's pretty much it. I totally agree with Chris, it's still a great place but it's simply not affordable. Other dilettantish bohos have all but priced me out. I live in South London largely because you get so much more for your money and there isn't the same pretence (although I'm working on that - spatchcocked quail in an arts café, anyone?)

Hmmm... Worthing it is then.

B_M_L wrote:

Adam I wrote:Without checking, I'd bet £5 that Brighton is home to the world's largest Waitrose and densest population of Tarquins, and Oscars.

Maybe outside of London. Including London I think it would rank nowhere near Kensington, Chelsea, Fulham, Parsons Green, Putney, Wimbeldon Village.... blah blah on the Waitrose/Tarquin/Oscar scale.

Never been to Berkshire, I take it?

honeyisfunny wrote:Hmmm... Worthing it is then.

Don't do that. You'll regret it. I see the people that get on and off at Worthing station every day.