Independent Leyton Orient Forum

I left London in 2003 as I simply couldn't afford to stay there any more and could only see the housing situation getting worse. I had no idea it would ever reach the situation it has at present. I was wondering how many boarders still live in London and how many have been driven out? For those who've been driven out where did you go?

I was not driven out by house prices just the pollution.

Mikero

What is your definition of London?

N, NW, E, SE or SW postcodes?
Inside North/ South Circular?
Inside M25?
Met Police Area?
London Council Boroughs?

The answer to this will affect answers to your question

I moved out of London because I wanted my family to live without the fear of knife crime, drugs and anti semitism.

Saying that, Sweden's going down the same path as Walthamstow.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/bom ... dish-life/

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am I moved out of London because I wanted my family to live without the fear of knife crime, drugs and anti semitism.

Saying that, Sweden's going down the same path as Walthamstow.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/bom ... dish-life/

Olaf Palm.

Disoriented wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am I moved out of London because I wanted my family to live without the fear of knife crime, drugs and anti semitism.

Saying that, Sweden's going down the same path as Walthamstow.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/bom ... dish-life/

Olaf Palm.

A former Swedish PM who went around with no bodyguard but was murdered in 1986.

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:03 am

Disoriented wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am I moved out of London because I wanted my family to live without the fear of knife crime, drugs and anti semitism.

Saying that, Sweden's going down the same path as Walthamstow.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2019/10/bom ... dish-life/

Olaf Palm.

A former Swedish PM who went around with no bodyguard but was murdered in 1986.

Correct. Sweden is not the utopia some make out.

Disoriented wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:04 am

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:03 am

Disoriented wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:00 am

Olaf Palm.

A former Swedish PM who went around with no bodyguard but was murdered in 1986.

Correct. Sweden is not the utopia some make out.

The Swedes blame all the foreigns - which is ironic because I'm one of them...

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:11 am

Disoriented wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:04 am

StockholmO wrote: ↑Sun Nov 03, 2019 12:03 am

A former Swedish PM who went around with no bodyguard but was murdered in 1986.

Correct. Sweden is not the utopia some make out.

The Swedes blame all the foreigns - which is ironic because I'm one of them...

You are surely part of the solution not the problem fella.

We left voluntarily, mainly because my dad died and was spending lots of time going up and down the M11 to see my mum.
No other family so anything that needed doing or sorted came down to us, hard work with a six year old to look after too.
Also my wife's family moved up this way from Stoke Newington a few years earlier, so seemed the obvious place

Moved to St Ives and been up here twenty years now, miss some things about home (Leyton then Walthamstow) others not so much
Easy enough to get back to watch the O's, same goes for things like gigs and other London based activities
Also good access to the road system and trains northwards from Peterborough, crime is also relatively low too

I didn’t leave London because of crime. Both times I have been burgled (masked intruder 3am burgled) was in the Cotswolds and abroad. Never had a problem in London. I just left because of the shear number of people and it was getting on my tits. Now live in Hay-on-Wye. Love it. Any orient fans ever come up for the festival give me a shout. Perhaps I should do a poll to filter out the undesirables.

Bonn in the old ackney ospital and lived in the wick for my first eleven years , lived in Befnal Green for 55 years and will no doubt stay here till i peg it , love the place guvna .

London housing has got nothing on Sydney. You cannot get a 3 bedroom house in a nice area for less than 2 million dollars.

I’m an Ackney Ospital boy myself, lived in Clapton, Tottenham (nobodies perfect) then off to Ilford. Relocated to Hampshire 20 years ago due to job relocation.

Will always be a Londoner. Best city in the world for me. Got everything, good and bad. If people think London is the only city in the world with problems they need to get out more.

Like onlyoinhuntingdon moved to st Ives ,with parents in 70's.then moved to southport.preston.Yorkshire and now near stamford.orient in my blood tho.still do majority of games with fellow orient fans up this way

" Now live in Hay-on-Wye."

A few books to read then?

Mikero

I still live in Leyton, but both my sons who are supporters had to move out of London, because of house/rent prices. Now they only come to the odd game now and then. My daughter still manages to live in Walthamstow, but spends most of her income on a ridiculously high rent. She doesn't come because she's not interested (also she married a West Ham supporter. I know I know).

Fortunately, I'm quite old and bought my house before the prices priced out ordinary non-hipster types.