“Naice” yummy mummy/ Gail’s area london

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Hi

I would really appreciate any help!

I’m expecting my second child at the moment and we are having to upsize to a house. I’m really looking for a villagey london urban area that’s “naice”.

Think yummy mummies, coffee shops, Gail’s, Waitrose… bookshops, speciality shops, boutiques etc … basically I’m painting a picture of Richmond/Chiswick. But unfortunately they are out of our price range.

I came across "Askew village” in Shepherd’s Bush- it’s more within our price range- not far from Chiswick…Hammersmith is in close range for independent schools for secondary.

what do you think? Is it up and coming? Or am I being delusional and it’s actually not what I’m expecting.

any advice welcome!

Thank you.

Lol right you've just used buzzword bingo in an attempt to try to deflect away from the subconscious racism that you and others (and Kelly Osborne) have been blatantly exhibiting.
Therr are chicken shops in poor white areas everywhere, all up and down the country, including London. Didn't you know, or are you too busy banging away on your keyboard in a self righteous fervour LOL

Obvs babes. Irony not your strong point then?

Can someone let me know what the deal is with chicken shops? I live nowhere near London and only have a KFC in my town. There doesn't seem to be a particular demograph that goes there.

@feralunderclass 'Areas with lots of chicken shops' is usually a racist shorthand for areas with lots of black people in. Because the cliche is that all black people eat fried chicken! Likely not many KFCs but more London (and South London at that) specific chains like Morleys.
In London it would be areas like Brixton or Peckham, before both gentrified, with diverse populations with a lot of working class people of colour. So not 'a Gail's area' which would suggest white, middle class yummy mummy types who want somewhere to buy sourdough for their weekend avocado toast brunch, on the way to yoga.
The OP might not have meant it that way but there's a reason a lot of Londoners on the thread responded to it as a racist thing to say.

Thank you for that @PinkArt .

Intelligence certainly isn’t yours. I’m a stereotype because I don’t like bread. Meanwhile you’re bragging about your massive house.

Walked past a Gail's today. Next door to a pawn shop one side and one of those slot machine casino type places the other (well, there's a Pret in-between). I thought of this thread and it made me laugh. Naice 😂 had to walk a bit further up to find a kebab shop though and I don't know if they did chicken.

It’s odd the things people find to sneer about. Downmarket things, upmarket things. Anything people enjoy really.

I used to work with someone and when I told him I’d moved to South London he smirked and asked if I was stepping over fried chicken bones in the morning. At the time I thought he was just suggesting it was a shit area so I laughed but later realised it was a racist comment. Now when I think back on it I’m so angry I laughed.

I’m raising children in a nice zone 3 of London and life is nothing like the hell @Heronwatcher is describing. But maybe that’s because I’m not trying to private tutor little kids into overpriced private schools just for the kudos.

Im not a Gail’s fan. First time I went to one (Blackheath) I was genuinely shocked at the price of a coffee and a cake. And I had the little honey cake! And it looked so so pretty but was so dry and bland!!

I live on the Herne Hill/Dulwich border, and my life isn’t anything like that either!

There is “the exclusive swimming pool” where swimming lessons book up within 30 mins of opening (ie at 06:30am). So DS swims in the local leisure centre like 99% of his classmates, and is doing well there. Lovely teachers, making good progress, £35pcm. Everything else has been fine to book into at the start of term: tennis, rugby, gymnastics, ice skating etc.

There’s a lot of choice locally. It would be worse if we lived outside of London with just one local provider, far more likely to have a waiting list or classes at inconvenient or clashing times.

@Saschka yes tahini bites too! Yum.

Maybe you should move to Marlow, OP.

I realise I'm a few weeks late to the party, but how have you got on with it all OP? I would broadly agree with the above, I have lived just east of Askew Rd and north of Goldhawk for seven years and it is a different vibe from what is now termed "Brackenbury Village", south of Goldhawk and to the east of Ravenscourt Park. The variation is greater from street to street in terms of how well-kept things are and for that reason (well and the fly tipping and occasional tweaking crackheads) it def wouldn't qualify as "naice". For what it's worth, I would define a nice area as somewhere the residents are invested, in whatever way, in making it a pleasant place to live for themselves and others. That doesn't mean there aren't those people on every street, but somewhere the residents have spent millions of pounds to be there is bound to see a higher rate of that kind of investment and thus be not just nice but more uniformly "naice". This is definitely true of both Brackenbury and the area to the west of Askew Rd which I think is where you mean by "Askew Village"? I wouldn't say that Askew Rd is massively villagey feeling yet but not bad, and that pocket of streets west of Askew, east of Emlyn Rd and south of Wendell Park I think is very underrated as an alternative to Brackenbury/Chiswick/streets around Ravenscourt Park. You can get more for your money I suppose because it's less well connected transport-wise than the above and not as useful for certain school catchments, but the houses/streets are lovely, it's very quiet and green and Askew Rd has everything you could need day to day (yes, including Gail's). I find the houses in Brackenbury on the whole quite poky and overlooked, but I suppose it's as close to village feel as you can get that close to Hammersmith. Anyway, I think "Askew Village" is lovely, great parks for kids and feels less obviously about manoeuvring for schools and work commutes etc than other nearby areas and more about just being a really pleasant place to live.