>> Think you're naive to what the area was before, to be honest. Without the Olympics it would have done just fine. I first lived near Hackney Wick in 2014 and

>> Think you're naive to what the area was before, to be honest. Without the Olympics it would have done just fine. I first lived near Hackney Wick in 2014 and it was a bit of a dump then, so I can only imagine what it was like a few years before that! What's there now may be 'soulless' but it's a hell of a lot nicer.