{"id":34874,"date":"2016-11-18T23:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-harringay-north-london-its-up-and-come\/"},"modified":"2016-11-18T23:47:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T16:47:53","slug":"lets-move-to-harringay-north-london-its-up-and-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-harringay-north-london-its-up-and-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Harringay, north London: \u2018It\u2019s up and come\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nNot as affordable as it was, but it still has fantastic Turkish grocers, green spaces and sought-after town housesWhat\u2019s 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\u2019d never live here, past Finsbury Park? But here I\u00a0lived in a \u00a360-a-week room on Hermitage Road. It had a carpeted toilet mat around the loo. Still, Harringay won me over. It\u00a0was 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\u2019t afford an actual room, so slept in the living room on a timeshare basis). How London has changed. Two decades on, I couldn\u2019t afford Harringay. It\u2019s up and come, too far for me, though you could have a try. Its town houses are \u201csought-after\u201d; the word \u201cartisan\u201d has been spotted. But those cabbages are still there.The case against Getting pricey. But isn\u2019t everywhere in London? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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