DreZone said:

Don't go south of the river


I am presuming that your comic is not particularly PC!

Freaks are all over London, Camden is a good start, but a bit predictable. East end is where it’s at. Hackney, Stoke Newington – Whitechapel famous in “old Landan Taaaan” and jack-the-ripper’s stomping ground is largely Bangladeshi. Soho (behind Leicester Sq) is vibrant and colourful. If you want the 60’s vibe then Carnaby Street.

“Signing on” for dole money is a thing of the past. Employment office provides what is now called Job Seekers Allowance and as R&Rdave pointed out you have to “prove” you are looking for work to collect your allowance and when a suitable job turns up you are expected to take it. To initiate the process you need Birth certificate and/or passport and a P45 which is the certificate (filled form) you get from your previous employer to prove you are unemployed. A week or so later you go back for an interview where they ask what type of job you want blah blah and ask how you will be looking for it etc. Then you go back each Fortnight on the same day at the same time to “sign on” show your evidence of job seeking and wait for the money to be transferred monthly into you bank account.

Simple. Oh, you have to be “available to work” ie fit and healthy and in the country.

Have fun.

You could also Try…






Columbia Road Flower Market then pop round the corner to Brick Lane for a ruby!

PREDOMINANT said:

I really started salivating when I saw that you bastid!

PREDOMINANT said:

Would Nazrul b a disguised restaurants 4 the... Nazguls ???!!! (as in lord of the rings). God i'm afraid !!!

So what's so particular about the "grimy dephts of the East side" ????

SENIK HELP !!!

shaomi said:

I just showed you with the aid of pics and text!!

East London is the vibrant multicultural part of London.

shaomi said:

OMG I didn't notice Nazrul's sign up there, I've been there loads of times!

Taureau said:

God, I need a curry!

Jon said:

How long have you lived there bud' ?

I'd have to differ with you a little pal, but as I did say my statement was a little vague as asians are more or less everywhere now

My Sister ran a Post Office there for year until a few years ago (nr. Gladstone Park Gardens) and her in-laws have had a convenience there for decades now. So from my numerous visits, stays and from what my relatives tell me (who live and work there) it's not a place that you would exclusively call an "asian area" (unlike Wembley or parts of Walthamstow), definitey more of an Arab oriented place. As I mentioned, it may seem that way because of the dense pockets of asians everywhere in London, but if you ask anyone from that ethnic background I'm sure Cricklewood would be way down the list in "asian areas".


I'll take what you say about the Irish and Afro-Caribean communties, but from the customers at my relatives store, there is still a fair few Irish and a lot of the Afro-Caribean communties left in that area.

But hey!, as we concurred, London's just one big crucible of many bubbling elements

PREDOMINANT said:

Soho (behind Leicester Sq) is vibrant and colourful. If you want the 60’s vibe then Carnaby Street.

How could we have forgotten good old Soho for this topic
Carnaby St. seems to be getting constantly "jazzed up" though It's got a great few shops there though (<---- That's the missus' purse, not mine! .....Mine's lilac with gold bells on )

senik said:

yeah carnaby's nice but it's long past the days of true 60's vibe, apart from the DM shop. It's all coffee shops and sandwich bars nowadays! Hey I did discover for the first time the other day that 'shopping arcade' just off of Carnaby, it had some great shops! including a shop full of Drunken Munky stuff. I liked anyway

PREDOMINANT said:

Dubbed "Bangla Town"

Like Predom said Shaomi, it sure is a vibrant and multi-cultural place .....by day! But by night??? That's when the grime starts to surface A few years ago it was the "heroin capital of Europe"

It has that ol' run down "east end" ghetto look too.


Shaomi, the thing is it's not a suburb as per your criteria. It's proper "inner-city". I don't know how flexible/rigid your guidelines for your comic book are?

Taureau said:

You laughing at me money pouch geeza'

I'll dooo ya I will

PREDOMINANT said:

Hey! Taureau, Predom!

Have you guys ever tried those ol' family bagel shops down the other end of Brick La. ?








Fresh, home-made just like your Granny used to bake

senik said:

You mean the ones that are en face to where the 'Body World's' exhibition was? (the 94 feet East end)? YEAH BABY!!! Unfortunately me gran can't cook bagel but maybe if she did they'd be just as nice, although whenever she cooks curry she ALWAYS insists on putting raisins in it

Yeah those brick lane bagels are wicked!

Taureau said:

"Body worlds"

sorry.... I meant bagels

Shit you guys have foreward thinking (or maybe just Jewish ) grannies!

My granny (MSRIP) wouldn't have known a bagel from a chicken tikka

24 hours on and I still want a Curry, maybe there is more than just the locational link between heroin and curry. My cravings are becoming much more frequent!

senik said:
[/quote] Shaomi, the thing is it's not a suburb as per your criteria. It's proper "inner-city". I don't know how flexible/rigid your guidelines for your comic book are?

[/quote]

Oh foolish me i used the term "suburb" but i actually meant "district" ou "ward" ---> i WANT it 2 b inner city.

What u describe about East London seem 2 b more interesting that Camden because of the weird nightlife issue, i'm not too sure what i'll choose... (big dilemma here )
As 4 my guidelines, they r as flexible as i need/want them 2 b, i'm the writer, after all

I'm surprised & enjoyed that so many people got in2 this debate, anyway

PREDOMINANT said:

did you ever see that? I thought it was ok but I so wanted about a thousand cigarettes afterwards after all those blackened lungs

Taureau said:

I had quite a reserved attitude, Gunthers argument for it being for education freaked me out a bit. It was either art or Medical but certainly not both. The pregnant woman and the in utero foetus' should never have been shown. I am still unsure how I feel about it now! Have to say I enjoyed it though; it was a privilege to see.

wtf is a londonian
peeps could get hurt
talking like that round here


[Edited 3/18/05 5:33am]

fishbellyblack said:

are you londonian?

Taureau said: