Yes, yes, of course we have been unbelievably lucky that we chose to live somewhere that became gentrified and therefore have made a lot of money on our house.
However.
We now feel like we have less and less in common with the people who live here. We are 49 and 51 and have good but not outstanding incomes.
I have just discovered that my new neighbours (who paid an extraordinary amount for their extremely average terraced house) are newlyweds in their early 30s. They are going to be doing building works, so I am imagine an extension and a loft conversion.
We are going to have nothing whatsoever in common with them are we?
I sincerely yearn for more authentic London living. Either inner city or further out and less pretentious and overpriced than where we are now.
Such a pita to have to move though! And nothing on the market 
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AIBU?
to want to move house in London just because the area where I live has become extremely poncey?
Mintyy · 08/12/2013 20:21
If we accept that an area can be gentrified then we have to accept that some people will feel put out by that gentrification. And that includes me.
Eeeee, I remember when the first person with a 4x4 moved on to our street. Now it is awash with them.
Actually, I don't care if I'm an inverted snob 
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Tell you what, read the evening standard for a week.
Make a list of all the places mentioned in relation to crime or poverty and cross off any which also feature in the Homes and Property supplement. Then you will be left with your target house hunting areas. 
I think the reasonable reaction to being in your position would be to count your lucky stars, rather than be mooning after a faux-Dickensian fantasy of authentic London.
Or have you considered that you are actually part of the change towards 'poncey'?
I wonder where you live, what zone is it? Where I live has been gentrified and as I said I've bought into that but for every artisan bakery there's a pound shop or a weave shop or something where you don't pay a fiver for something you'd bin if you turned it out indoors.
I've lived in the rougher if not roughest part of London but it's always been that you could go 5 minutes one way for a bit more fancy things or 5 minutes another way if you really want some rough.
I can agree with wanting a mix but I don't think wanting all rough is anyway better than wanting all middle class.
I have always fancied living in Landan, for the change y'know? Do you fancy a houseswap? Suburban Lancashire complete with a greyhound and i'll throw in th'usband .
Oh Mintyy, I feel your pain re building works - that thread on our local forum is about the works behind us. And the nice couple next to us are trying to get and extension done. I feel like the world coming in on us
I agree, when we bought our house, the area was a different place. And there were parking spaces!
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I get where you're coming from. I really do. But I have to admit, I do have a weeny voice running through my head singing: "I got 99 problems but my area gentrifying more than me ain't one."
Seriously, I have friends who have also talked about this. It is a weird, and not entirely nice, new experience in London. It is almost like something being taken away from you by Very Well Off people. Who are probably nice enough. And it is very hard to be taken seriously when yu talk about it.
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