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Of all the boroughs I've lived in, in London, the East Village (a.k.a. Olympic village) and the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Park is by far my favourite, and it's s
by eyko 5y ago
Of all the boroughs I've lived in, in London, the East Village (a.k.a. Olympic village) and the adjacent Queen Elizabeth Park is by far my favourite, and it's still improving. It has also had an impact on the surrounding areas which, negative in terms of gentrification and ridiculous house prices, but very positive in terms of the flourishing local economy and community.
- JetSetWilly 5y agoSure, I mean if you have the entire UK lavish money on a small area of London, that small area will benefit! Nobody would deny that nobody has benefitted from the olympics - a very small area of the country and a small number of companies contracted to build things benefited greatly, at the cost of the rest of the UK.
- ColonialOne 5y agoShame about the cladding fiasco though. https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/buying-mortgages/stopped-tracks-cladding-crisis-grenfell-stratford-olympic-east-village-b926236.html https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/buying-mortgages...