Property News · November 18, 2016

Let’s move to Harringay, north London: ‘It’s up and come’


Not as affordable as it was, but it still has fantastic Turkish grocers, green spaces and sought-after town housesWhat’s going for it? Harringay was my introduction to London. It was an inauspicious start. I was hoping for Mayfair, or Islington, at a push. (What can I say? I was young and foolish.) I’d never live here, past Finsbury Park? But here I lived in a £60-a-week room on Hermitage Road. It had a carpeted toilet mat around the loo. Still, Harringay won me over. It was the cabbages that did it; those, the running track at Finsbury Park and regular baklavas. Green Lanes, its high street, is lined with incredible Turkish grocers selling cabbages the size of rugby balls and sweet treats that kept me going during the gruelling times, like when our flatmate moved in (Charles couldn’t afford an actual room, so slept in the living room on a timeshare basis). How London has changed. Two decades on, I couldn’t afford Harringay. It’s up and come, too far for me, though you could have a try. Its town houses are “sought-after”; the word “artisan” has been spotted. But those cabbages are still there.The case against Getting pricey. But isn’t everywhere in London? Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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