Dalston or Leytonstone?
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My granny grew up in Dalston. Not that that should influence your decision in any way, but it's all I can contribute to the subject, never having lived north of the river.
Dalston - handy for Vietnamese food
I have an irrational prejudice against Dalston (it may be rational, but I doubt it) so I say Leytonstone.
Dalston -a bit dodgy, but fairly close to Stoke Newington to the north, Islington to the west and Brick Lane to the south.
Leytonstone - not close to anything good, you may as well go the whole hog and move to Romford.
Tim *gasp* you mean you're a... a South Londoner? Horrors!
GSE - good point.
Billy, oh why? I'd have thought the Dalston Oxfam blog was right up your street.
LC, I was bit trepidatious when I googled the street and the first link was an article about this woman who lived there being mugged by a teenage crackhead prostitute. At 8.30 am. I won't hear a word against Leytonstone.
http://slaminsky.blogspot.com/2007/05/late-and-stoned.html
This Guardian article could push you either way.
Oi LC, what's so wrong about Romford? :p
Annie, move to Norwich. Gwan!
Actually, having said that, now that I think about it, the only time anybody ever tried to mug me was in Dalston. He wasn't a very good mugger though, all I had to do was tell him to fuck off and he gave up.
Don't really know Leytonstone that well - I used to live round the corner in Forest Gate for a few years. The whole area seems a bit suburban compared to Dalston.
I am a South londoner and I would still say Dalston. I mean, what's the actual point of Leytonstone? School trips to Epping Forest, that's what.
Of course, according to the New York Times, the place to be is Deptford:
http://tinyurl.com/c2pvh4
Have you SEEN what they're doing to Dalston?
Have lived in Leyton - handy for Central Line and Walthamstow market but that's about it. Dalston - it's the new place to be. xx
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