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He’s also a guy that lives in a relatively fancy area of probably the most desirable city in the world.

• vidarh 5y ago
  I still don't understand why anyone would want to live there. It's an area that - irrespective of price - would end up near the bottom of my list of places in London I'd consider living, alongside far more run down places.
  • notahacker 5y ago
    Anticipated price appreciation and a relatively central location. But yeah, "fancy" is really pushing the description of a district composed of council estates, building sites, an industrial-scale wholesale market and rail junctions
    • ryanlol 5y ago
      “relatively fancy” :) Embassy gardens is very fancy compared to how most Londoners live.
      • vidarh 5y ago
        The buildings are fancy, but there area has no character. I'd pick a much less fancy building most other places in London over living there.
  • ryanlol 5y ago
    The prices are almost half of what they’d be on the other side of the river for comparable developments, it’s a reasonably short drive to central london.
    • vidarh 5y ago
      I'm saying I don't think living there would be worth it for half of areas on the other side of the river with some actual character. If I had the money for flats there, I'd prefer to spend it almost anywhere else in London - either somewhere smaller somewhere with more character, or something much larger further out. I can't imagine the conditions that'd make me consider living there. A lot of the developments along the river (both sides) that stretch will end up with significant modifications over the coming decades, as so many of those areas are just soulsuckingly dead and awful.