I remember a time in the 1990s when there were few restaurants in Forest Hill and I went on a first date to Spaghetti Western in Lordship Lane. The restaurant closed many years ago but we tied the knot last year

I think that the closure of greengrocers and other small shops is not confined to East Dulwich, but affects all other areas in every town in the country. However, East Dulwich does manage to support a diverse high street with a better range of shops than Forest Hill, but then so does Catford and that is not due to gentrification, so I don't believe you have to have grossly inflated house prices for a successful town centre.

Will I get into masses of trouble if I suggest that both Catford and East Dulwich have a larger daytime population than Forest Hill? Is what we need for more of us to work from home / become unemployed / give up working to look after the children? No doubt I am being terribly un-PC to even think such thoughts or to make such sweeping statements regarding local demographics, but I would not be stating it if I did not feel there was some truth to my suggestions.