My partner has just come back from a meeting with a south London community leader. During the conversation, the guy was talking about the changes in the last 10 years especially with the rise in house prices. He believes that while the schools in hot areas such as Clapham and Brixton have benefited somewhat from drawing in pupils from wealthier families, it has been at the cost of students from families in council/social housing feeling pushed out of the school agenda. He also described how such families felt patronised by the wealthier parents, with behaviour sometimes boardering on rudeness.
Unfortunately, as housing becomes more and more expensive regular folk will be priced out of London and it will become a city full of bankers. RIP creativity and diversity. Like Paris, it will be a place for the wealthy and tourists.
As The Fall said, 'Hit the North'

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