london

I am flying in especially for dinosaurs yes

Cool. I'll see what I can find.

crystal palace park, natural history museum, probably more

I think those are just models / fossils and stuff, not the real thing

Revived, ahead of a jaunt to London tomorrow.
And to see where the dinosaur conversation goes.

Well, I'll probably be run off the London Restaurants thread, if not out of town, but I quite like the Pheasantry on the Kings Road - a Pizza Express in a Georgian building. It has an interesting walled courtyard at the front and the ground floor has some faux 60s artwork and pleasant ambience. The downstairs is uninteresting, though I did once sit next to a group of Chelsea nannies gossiping about their employers which was quite interesting

Other possible stopping points: I like the Victoria pub in Strathearn Place. It's just above Hyde Park and a few minutes from Paddington. It's a classic Victorian traditional style pub (Fullers - I recommend the London Pride). Plus for historic interest, you're a only a few doors away from where John Lennon, George Harrison were first turned on to acid in the 1960s by George's dentist (at 2 Strathearn Place).

And I do recommend Little Venice if you're in the Paddington area:

http://www.london-attractions.info/images/attractions/little-venice.jpg

Possible boozer: the Warwick Castle just off Blomfield Rd, at Warwick Place.

Shame that it gets dark so early at this time of year.

Just be very careful:
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01568/ferns_1568189i.jpg

map of where bombs fell during the blitz:

http://bombsight.org/

there's a road i walk down on the way to work (Westville Road, W12) where a terrace has a break in it which has been filled with flats. in the mortar at the end of the terrace is scratched two pairs of initials and a date in 1945...

(oddly not on the map. although there are a couple close by. also nothing in askew road where the pub was bombed)

As far as missing living in London goes, I've been having crazy flashbacks of being Peckham, and only of Peckham, all day. I have no explanation for this.

You were Peckham?

went to mr buckley's on hackney road last night. not usually into small plates because i am a greedy fuck but it was really nice food and wine. didn't get to try the lobster mac & cheese tho :(

shit thought this was london restaurants threadddd

*IN (xposts)

after i came back from living in tokyo for a year i used to have these super weird super vivid flashbacks - like images overlaid on the place where i really was - of unassuming bits of town, like view from across the street from the supermarket, or one particular pedestrian footbridge, never anywhere i had any strong emotions associated with. i think it's just a... processing, kind of thing?

by which I mean: i didn't miss the place yet, but i kept having these visions of it, without feeling and inescapable.

Oh yeah, I'm familiar with the phenomenon, I'm just curious as to why Peckham?

Have you spend a lot of time in Peckham at any point?

No, that's the thing.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/69151000/jpg/_69151012_69150604.jpg

Shit getting real in Herne Hill there.

jesus h

http://www.london24.com/polopoly_fs/herne_hill_flood4_1_2322155!image/3709062561.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_490/3709062561.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/12/london-room-rent-gumtree_n_4584275.html

bargain.

having gotten notice to quit on my staggeringly cheap flat earlier today i look forward to living somewhere similar soon.

chriiiiist

we're clinging on to our staggeringly cheap flat by our fingertips - landlady wants to sell up and it will happen this time, she just hasn't got round to formally telling us aagh - once she actually does we're all fucked

*house, even

yeah, there's close to zero chance of me not paying at least an extra £200 a month for anywhere similar to what i have now, and since i'm already quite good at spending all of my income that's gonna make things tough. still, i survived through the rise and rise of lower clapton for a surprisingly long time.

the minute i moved into lower clapton 2 years ago i knew it was on the verge of this. at some point it really feels like gentrification wankery is chasing you and it keeps on catching up...

cosine here, same sitch, crazy cheap flat and landlord is going to sell but hasn't formally told us yet

everything in hackney is insane right now, it seems inevitable that the only people who will be able to live there in a year or so will be either rich or poor, nothing inbetween. there's a 1-bedroom basement flat literally next door to me on the market for £400K. it's to the point that west london i.e. shepherd's bush or fulham might even be cheaper??

Gah, that's terrible, but unfortunately I'm not so sure it is a pisstake.

Hope both all of you find somewhere decent, though I'm aware of how difficult that is right now.

every time i go on moveflat, just to scope out where the fuck i could possibly move to when the inevitable happens, it's absolutely terrifying

Was keeping a eye on Waltham Forest for a while but one bed flats that looked overpriced to me at £150,000 a few years ago are going for £220,000 now.

I could be asked to move out any time and genuinely don't know if there is anywhere left in London proper to move to. Where do people go?

one way i like to depress myself is by checking out the rents on comparable flats in other perfectly nice cities (glasgow, manchester, brighton). tbh if i wasn't academically tied to london i'd probably take this opportunity to move elsewhere.

Tell me about these rents because I am p much feeling v v done with London and if I could rent out this flat and move somewhere cheaper, it might well spur me to leave this shithole. But it would also mean I'd have to fix the damp.

the minute i moved into lower clapton 2 years ago i knew it was on the verge of this. at some point it really feels like gentrification wankery is chasing you and it keeps on catching up...

― lex pretend, Sunday, 12 January 2014 19:35 (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this has been sort of simmering away during the half decade of no growth, a sort of surface level entrenchment of the sort of things that cause estate agents to append 'village' to place names, now with a debt fuelled pseudo-revival it has gone into overdrive

25% of help to buy approved mortgages are in london and environs, so long as you can find a nice 2 bed garden flat for under the 600k threshold

xp well, for example, i'm looking forward to paying as much to live in a cupboard in london as i would to live in this glasgow city centre flat - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/property-39261505.html

yeah sure i'll just buy a £575K flat no sweat. WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE

high salaries but no savings, just the sort of people in need of public subsidies

maybe this shit will cause some people to remember there is a part of london south of the thames

Has it not gone the same way? I know loads of people being priced out of Brockley, Brixton, Tooting, etc.

HEY.

(Sorry, but Sarf London has seen some fairly ludicrous price rises, too. Several of my friends have ended up priced out of Streatham, believe it or not.)

yeah i've looked at various south locales and it's honestly not much better. brixton is as insane as hackney

:(

"priced out of brockley" - a memoir

yeah i was hearing the orher day about an ad exec who just spent low seven figures on a house in a bit of south london that north londoners would probably associate (assuming they had heard of it) with crime and deprivation

Was keeping a eye on Waltham Forest for a while

Prices have gone absolutely mental in Walthamstow over the last 18 months or so. Don't know if it's happened in Leyton/Leytonstone as well.

Edmonton still a cheaper option, and with good reason.

Waiting for Guardian Weekend to do a glowing "Let's Move To... Mitcham Junction" or something.