On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, alex_t wrote:

The lost land! The Bow back rivers area is one of my favourite places
in London; i don't know that i'd call it 'lost'. But then, i don't have
to live there!

Yes, they are nice - but as most things in the area they are very
neglected: dirty, smelly, etc. Well, the smell is not from rivers
actually, it comes from the sewer nearby (especially when the wind is
from the sea), but it stinks so bad...

The only reason that I live here is that I got a chance to rent a flat
in a brand new block (near the City Mill Lock) quite cheaply, and it is
nice to live in, or better to say - it *was* nice in the beginning. As a
first tenant on my floor (and one of the first in the entire building) I
witnessed gradual decline from the initial shiny new building to current
pig farm (which is of course quite logical, given that most people
living here behave like pigs). Add local yobs, polish/ eastern-european
drunkards, a couple of recent bourglaries (not in my flat thank god -
*knocks on wood*), multiple letter boxes broken into (I redirected most
of my mail to work) - and it is no surprise that I'm going to start
searching for a better place soon... :-/

Yikes. Okay, that doesn't sound too fun.

tom

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