is london ilx still a thing

It doesn't, but it's coming along. Mile End has a really nice bit by the Chisenhale Gallery, a lot of well-proportioned Georgian houses, and a lot of decent ex-council flats in nice redbrick blocks - and Central line is pretty fast, even with all the crowding.

Yeah some parts of Mile End are nice, Chisenhale Road is exactly where I mean. There are also nice bits near Tredegar Square. Some grim parts too, that big black hole behind the tube station (past the eerie graveyard).

Yeah the bit around the Tube Station towards Devons Road is the bit I'm most familiar with and I wouldn't advise anyone to live there unless they absolutely had to, and certainly not upon arriving in London for the first time. Don't know Chisenhale Road but anything closer to Victoria Park is almost guaranteed to be nicer.

Yeah I wasn't necessarily recommending those areas, more just suggesting it might be possible to live somewhere nice on a London wage. I pay about 70 more than when I moved, nearly 8 years ago, and I survived then on about 16k a year.

xxp That's the bit of Mile End that would be being sold as Homerton if there wasn't a park in between, all I'm saying.

(now wondering if the big black hole is my old flat on Mossford Street - I know the ceiling collapsed on to the kitchen shortly after I left)

There are several parks between Mile End and Homerton.

I'd imagine it's closer to Bethnal Green, also not sure the magic of the name Homerton is used as a selling point.

Recent recording about a leafy street in Mile End, it sounds like the kind of place a genial Sunday afternoon might occur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEkW8TzmhNI

xp I.. apologise if I've offended you? Chisenhale is only really near one park, and the road nearest it on the other side (Wetherell Road) is listed as Homerton - not by everyone of course, but enough to sell it as such.

Homerton is north of the railroad tracks and possibly north of Cassland Road - anything E9 below these is Well Street Common, Victoria Park etc.

I wouldn't disagree with that, but it's not myself that you'd have to convince..

One thing's for sure, you'll need all your powers of persuasion in this meaningless hypothetical where Victoria Park vanishes and you are talking to an estate agent's marketing department.

I'd have thought the plummier sort of estate agent would be happy to call these E9 areas anything but Homerton, maybe something like Lauriston Village (south of the tracks) or Chatsworth Village (north of the tracks).

^ tombot these are the kind of conversational topics your friends can get involved in very soon.

on similar topics I assume Highgate flats being £84 per month on average cheaper than one at Archway is because all the ones at Archway are being marketed as "Highgate"

Homerton is north of the railroad tracks and possibly north of Cassland Road - anything E9 below these is Well Street Common, Victoria Park etc.

otm

I'd have thought the plummier sort of estate agent would be happy to call these E9 areas anything but Homerton, maybe something like Lauriston Village (south of the tracks) or Chatsworth Village (north of the tracks).

also otm!

fwiw (not much) - homerton as a place name still seems to be shunned a bit.

Someone should definitely tell these fellas:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=77+Wetherell+Rd+London+E9+7DA

(as well as my friend in we-can-all-agree-it's Homerton IE Glyn Road, who's been watching the amounts on the "Your house is worth £xxx" leaflets climb towards a million over the last 5 years)

That is Victoria Park and no mistake!

I used to have friends in Glyn Road and when I was living just off Cassland Road 20+ years ago, anything E5 was the back of beyond.

They bought about 12 years ago, same then. It shot up as soon as the Olympics was announced, they thought it'd drop off after, but it appears not.

i am genuinely thrilled that yall are still arguing about where different neighborhoods are located

london ilx is def still a thing

scanning through this conversation was like jumping back in time 12 years

Anyone knocking around btwn gates b32 and b48 at heathrow for the next hour nows yr chance to finally meet ms mac

I wouldnt recommend it tbh she was up early and one of her labels has been chafing her someplace she doesnt want to discuss

I couldn't get there inside an hour if I tried but it is a generous offer. ShariVari probably in terminal 4

Yeah i thought "if anyone" tbh

I am in glamorous Salford today, unfortunately.

tbf i shouldve flagged it but j just never know what security's going to be like do u

SV definitely involved in the Mourinho appointment

Was seen carrying a cardboard box full of Champions League and Premiership Winners medals.

Salford ilx definitely not a thing, sadly. Old Trafford isn't in Salford except in terms of Catholic diocese