{"id":57334,"date":"2014-04-04T22:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T15:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-tooting-south-london\/"},"modified":"2017-06-09T09:49:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T02:49:49","slug":"lets-move-to-tooting-south-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-tooting-south-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to Tooting, south London"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nTime was when Tooting was the epitome of ordinariness. Not any more\u2026What’s going for it? I fear we are too late, chaps. Advance reconnaissance suggests Tooting has already gone the way of Balham\/Clapham\/Brixton et al. It has a fashionable chicken shop. Definitely not one of your standard-issue Dixie Fried Chickens, but something far more knowing and ironic. Poggenpohl kitchens, wet rooms and expensive floorboards have been spotted through the bay windows; Nespresso machines have been bought. The takeover is complete, save for a few rogue streets of pebbledash to the south. Time was, of course, when Tooting, like Clapham before it, was the epitome of ordinariness. Ancient readers will remember Citizen Smith (younger readers: a popular 1970s sitcom), whose hero’s mantra was “Power to the people”, the joke being that a Trot could exist even in the central casting suburban slumber of Tooting, with its 30s lido and streets of Victorian terraces. Thirty years on, revolution of a very different kind has arrived (bit of politics there), and Citizen Smith seems as\u00a0distant as a Victorian bustle.The case against House prices aside, very little. In fact, it’s a wonder it has taken this long for lovely Tooting to be “discovered”. I guess the carbon monoxide belches rather. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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