h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

One popular past-time in Streatham is shooting people. Another is leaving a burnt out car right outside my flat.
The Streatham railway station always smells of wee and is full of pigeon poo. The supermarket next door always stocks rubbish rotting food.

Does anyone want to buy a flat in Streatham? One bedroom, on Babington Road. Lovely neighbourhood. No?

Heh, I've just moved into a flat in that road

I quite like Streatham - it's nicer than Catford, Peckham and the Kilburn High Road side of West Hampstead (gone well downhill these days). Not as nice as St Margaret's though.

There seems to be a lot of negative opinion posted to this entry - unless you're minted any part of London you can afford to live in is going to be much the same - dirty, noisy and full of people from all over the world. An environment you either love or can find dozens of things to fear and complain about. I get bored out of my skull when I stay with my parents in a sleepy, safe (and very affluent) little village outside Henley - London has far more life - it is always open, you can always find something to eat or somewhere to party, and if you know what to look out for and where not to go you can avoid trouble.

What number? We're selling a flat at number 55

Not going to post my flat number on here - call me paranoid but hey, you never know who's out there....

Suffice it to say I'm on the same side of the road and not too far away at all

"There seems to be a lot of negative opinion posted to this entry - unless you're minted any part of London you can afford to live in is going to be much the same - dirty, noisy and full of people from all over the world. An environment you either love or can find dozens of things to fear and complain about. I get bored out of my skull when I stay with my parents in a sleepy, safe (and very affluent) little village outside Henley - London has far more life - it is always open, you can always find something to eat or somewhere to party, and if you know what to look out for and where not to go you can avoid trouble. "

Very true- I live down the road in Thornton Heath, which is very similar... not all of us can be trendy north london types!