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Post by Chumbles on Sept 10, 2020 1:16:31 GMT
Chumbles chat: I really would try and set fire to most of amersham if possible. New build houses look like they are out pricing the science park by bracknell, can't live by where you work. Doesn't matter they can all work in London and travel by cross rail? Also grew up close ish to amersham so not just being mean, Don't just single out Amersham. Gerrard's Crawss is far worse... In truth, the whole commuter belt has got to the crackers stage. But a distinction ought to be drawn between Amersham Old Town, where a garage can cost you 6 figures and the old council house stock off Gore Hill (Piggotts Orchard and Fieldway, and the pebble dash cottages of School Lane) has largely been bought by the tenants and flogged to incomers), and Amersham on the Hill where every possible space has been built on because the tube/chiltern railway station has the best train service into London. The former had become a tourist mecca. Even between 1987 and 1997 when I lived in the old town, the working class guys and gals moved away, as their parents died and the houses they had bought off the council were sold and the proceeds split between the kids. And with them, and the passing of the old characters, the huge diversity of the pubs' clientele got replaced by sales managers their like talking business. The very reason I moved there evaporated... |
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Post by Shenguin on Sept 10, 2020 7:40:05 GMT
Chumbles chat: I really would try and set fire to most of amersham if possible. New build houses look like they are out pricing the science park by bracknell, can't live by where you work. Doesn't matter they can all work in London and travel by cross rail? Also grew up close ish to amersham so not just being mean, Don't just single out Amersham. Gerrard's Crawss is far worse... In truth, the whole commuter belt has got to the crackers stage. But a distinction ought to be drawn between Amersham Old Town, where a garage can cost you 6 figures and the old council house stock off Gore Hill (Piggotts Orchard and Fieldway, and the pebble dash cottages of School Lane) has largely been bought by the tenants and flogged to incomers), and Amersham on the Hill where every possible space has been built on because the tube/chiltern railway station has the best train service into London. The former had become a tourist mecca. Even between 1987 and 1997 when I lived in the old town, the working class guys and gals moved away, as their parents died and the houses they had bought off the council were sold and the proceeds split between the kids. And with them, and the passing of the old characters, the huge diversity of the pubs' clientele got replaced by sales managers their like talking business. The very reason I moved there evaporated... TL:DR? Animal Crossing wall of text, in the style of Tent Hen. |
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