Sasha and Digweed Hackney Church1st December 2023

alistair

rhouses stop digging

Dan

STFU Rhouses 😆

Hursty

Double murder in Hackney overnight

“ The shooting happened in Vine Close - which is in a small housing development in a quiet, residential part of Hackney - at about 18:30 GMT on Tuesday.”

Are they being polite with this description?

Smallman1

Hursty Are they being polite with this description?

How do you mean?

Dan

Locals don’t pronounce the H in Hackney.

Hursty

Smallman1 making it sound nice when by all reports the place is a khazi?

Smallman1

Right you are.

Hackney is a complete khazi.

alistair

The church was rather beautiful though

IndustryStandard

Think there are parts of Hackney that are absolute hipster central, with flats no one on here could afford - bar Smalls and his “Dina Carroll” trust fund.

Then once you pay your £750K for a shoebox, you walk round the corner and its something out of Top Boy.

ScottBailey

IndustryStandard Think there are parts of Hackney that are absolute hipster central,

If ’ackney wasn’t bad enough before, this is what makes it even worse. Just because some plonker thinks it’s cool to pay £5 for a bowl of cornflakes at some pop-up breakfast bar stuck in between a Morley’s and a Chicken Cottage, that’s not an improvement.

The expression “can’t polish a turd” comes to mind.

RichM

IndustryStandard surely that’s like lots of parts of London and other major cities in the world, they all have massively expensive and shit parts close to each other and crime can appear across them all in some capacity.

For this there are parts of hackney that are generally very nice streets that look worth the £2m each property, but v near council blocks that have gang issues.

hugopal

RichM yeah though Hackney is still easily one of the worst places in London for it, along with the Peckham-Camberwell-Brixton axis.

A few of my old classmates from secondary school bought flats round Hackney; can’t say I envied them it.

RichM

hugopal it’s all based on personal opinion, part of mine is based on some people at my work (finance industry) who earn a fortune and have a family who live there and love it. There are some very trendy restaurants, bars and pubs in the area to back up the million £+ properties there

But as per my previous post, it comes with lots of shit, such as yesterday’s shootings, but I’m sure that’s not unique to London. I’m guessing Berlin has trendy areas which are expensive but also edgy, a bit shit?

Hursty

Hipsters and gangsters, sounds like a mustard place to live

baggers44

Hursty that’s Barnsley mate!

Smallman1

No such awfulness in Tooting, just a wonderful part of the world full of absolute legends.

ScottBailey

Smallman1 No such awfulness in Tooting, just a wonderful part of the world full of absolute legends

Did you find that in a cracker? Best Christmas joke ever!

Smallman1

How’s Basingstoke treating you chief?!

ScottBailey

Smallman1 it’s not exactly the Kings Rd to be fair, but I’d take it over the aforementioned every time

Mad_Cyril

RichM I’m guessing Berlin has trendy areas which are expensive but also edgy, a bit shit?

Not in Mcr Rich, we have decent areas and shit areas. I can park the flatbed and fit a Jacuzzi on my plot

hugopal

RichM But as per my previous post, it comes with lots of shit, such as yesterday’s shootings, but I’m sure that’s not unique to London. I’m guessing Berlin has trendy areas which are expensive but also edgy, a bit shit?

Yeah but the similar/equivalent types of areas in Berlin are at the lower side not quite as dodgy or crime-ridden in the same way, but at the upper end are not as refined or varied in terms of things like properties and restaurants.

Those parts of London feel more unequal in that the worse seems worse but the better seems better.

There are no multi-million town houses in those parts of Berlin, it’s all apartment buildings.

RichM

Mad_Cyril jacuzzi you say? Only the top bollocks have one of those bad boys

Smallman1

ScottBailey it’s not exactly the Kings Rd to be fair

Don’t be so hard on yourself, it’s where all the winners live.

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