What's the best and worst thing about living in Stroud Green?

edited August 2009 in Local discussion
Just wondering. Mine are: Best: There are fantastic restaurants & pubs on my doorstep yet I can still get the paper and milk delivered and there's a community like this (online anyway)! Worst: finsbury Park station. Don't know what they are doing when they think they are modernising, but it still looks grotty.

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  • edited 10:57AM
    Ooh, I love these sorts of polls.

    Best:

    Great selection of cheap restaurants
    Good transport links
    The park/BMF
    Parkland Walk

    Worst:

    Limited selection of restaurants that deliver
    No good cafe with wi-fi to work in
    Nothing open after midnight (23.30 for food)
    Dog shit everywhere
  • edited 10:57AM
    Dream River cafe is good for wifi, plus it's really peaceful and unrushed, I love the place.

    Best thing about SG is that it's the first bit of true greenery and suburbia that you hit from central London. I know there's highbury fields and stuff, but's that's too touristy. And Parkland walk's good.

    Lack of free cashpoints is a bit of a nightmare - only one at Tescos which is crap for such a big neighbourhood. And too much traffic trying to squeeze past parked cars on Tollington Park and Upper Tollington Park, one of the scariest roads in the area to cycle on!
  • edited 10:57AM
    Here goes, mine are:
    The best:
    The parks: Finsbury and Wray
    Restaurants such as Dotori, Patek and Dudleys
    The tube, takes just 10 mins to get into town
    The people a great community
    Hard as Nails: reasonable beauty stuff
    SGR Pharmacy - the pharmacist is better than my doctors
    Its proximity to lots of great places: Crouch E, Belsize park, Hampstead, Broadway Market, Angel etc

    The worst:
    Muscle dogs and dog shit
    Lack of decent deli, supermarket, hairdresser, clothes shop, gym, kids toy shop, butchers
    Orrible yoofs from local secondary school
    Lack of decent secondary schools
    Overt drug dealing
  • edited 10:57AM
    Like:
    ok restaurants
    couple of decent pubs
    nice tree lined streets
    parkland walk
    walkable to City
    good gym (Crouch End)
    easy transport everywhere
    decent mix of people

    Meh not so much
    Filth all up Stroud Green road to Nandos with bins and rubbish everywhere. Bins in the middle of the street at Tesco.
    No bakery
    ANOTHER fruit and veg shop?
    Growing crime, drug problem
    Nandos
    WTF?! planning regs round Finsbury Park station
    Skanky tramps
  • edited 10:57AM
    @sg_mike - it's been said before - there's a free cashpoint in the post office, there's three at FP station, there's one at the former post office opposite the Triangle. Also the Fullback will give you cashback, Londis on Ferme Park road will give you cashback, probably others as well.
  • edited 10:57AM
    dairy does cashback
  • edited 10:57AM
    tesco does cashback
  • edited 10:57AM
    Best

    The glittering diversity that is the Stroud Green Riviera

    Worst

    Receiving newsletters signed 'Love & Rockets'
  • edited 10:57AM
    Best Learning from Tosscat that Fullback does cashback. Free money opposite my front door.
  • edited 10:57AM
    Best:
    Fab shops (including the under-rated Londis) and restaurants;
    Local, independent feel
    Excellent transport links into town; loads of buses
    Proximity to CE and Muswell Hill
    The Overground (also under-rated)
    Parkland Walk
    Lovely big houses

    Worst:
    Dodgy area outside Tesco/White Lion
    Can be a bit grubby at times
  • edited August 2009
    That's so cool about the cashback. Thanks. Didn't know Hard as Nails was any good. Will have to try them. It's so true about the limited number of good restaurants that deliver. Bit of a shame.
  • edited 10:57AM
    Best:

    Nice, small shops (apart from Mega-Londis, which is also pretty good)
    Quick trains to Kings Cross on weekends.
    Generally filled with friendly, young-ish types and not very many teenagers.

    Worst:

    No-one knows where it is.
    Slight fear that things might "get a bit stabby" on certain roads (often Hanley Road for some reason).
    Johnny Borrell has been spotted in the area.
  • edited 10:57AM
    "get a bit stabby" - nice Shaun of the Dead reference.
  • edited 10:57AM
    '"Dodgy area outside Tesco/White Lion '

    Magic P I know what you mean!! I have thought of writing to Wetherspoons more than once. Thing is the White Lion was one of their earliest pubs after Tim W. split with Marlers Bars [ first incarnation of The Noble] It was typical Wetherspoons all faux Victoriana that arrived in a van but it was cosy, with a big central fine and not really in need of a makeover. Suddenly they turned it into an annexe of Luton airport departure lounge [ orange & yellow carpet tiles!!] It does cater to a very local crowd but it is grim. Actually I can remember when it was a car showroom owned by a retired Arsenal player - with the usual 'cut' of sales to George Graham no doubt

    Best real pub is the Park Tavern on Tollington Park - next to the Front Room, the landlord looks like a Toby Jug, albeit without a handle on the back of his head. Doesn't do food but does have late opening on Sats.
  • edited 10:57AM
    Best:
    the view from the covered reservoir
    the park
    riding the bus with people who were in Eastenders 10 years ago and you thought were dead
    Woodys for random midnight shopping

    Worst:
    the fact people have never heard of SG
    CPZ during the day time
    people being shot in the head on the Islington side of SGR
    road works
  • edited August 2009
    >the fact people have never heard of SG

    That's a good thing!
  • edited 10:57AM
    @ NoOne - who got shot in the head on the Islington side?
  • edited 10:57AM
    one of the best things about living here is sg.org! i don't mean to suck up but at least once a week i find myself quoting something off here, trying a new restaurant/cafe/pub, or smiling at people on sgr who i think might possibly be on this site. that's still a good thing despite the 'what a weirdo' looks i often get in return. i also love being near finsbury park station but also not really having to get on the tube to go anywhere (except work) as everything is here. the worst things are tesco's poor selection of meat, and dog poo.
  • edited 10:57AM
    tesco has a poor selection of dog poo? well it is only a tesco metro (they have a poor selection of pretty much everything)
  • edited August 2009
    @ Dion it wasnt actually in SG but very close! Lennox Road off Tollington about 10 days ago, armed robbery, shot a bloke in the head and drove off with mobile phones.
  • edited 10:57AM
    The Tesco needs completely refurbishing and the rubbish tills being sorted out so that everyone is in one queue and just moves to the next available till.
  • edited 10:57AM
    The best thing is sg.org The other best thing is being vilified on sg.org I've forgotten the bad things, much.
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