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Under the gurdwara dome: a walk through Southall, London
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“The battlezone for London’s gentrification.” Do you think it will ever seep into Southall, or is all that ethnicity too scary for the gentry?
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Well, it’s a question of time, really. London’s gentrification, I’m seeing, is mainly white but not only that. Overseas investors are the new game setters and they’re moving even in areas that didn’t use to see so much investment back in the day. A few months ago there were anti-gentrification protests in Brixton and Croydon… Just 5 years ago those two places were up in flames, literally!
So, yes, I think Southall and places like Harrow will become gentrified. It might be Mr Patel and not Mr Smith, but they’ll have their own fake Café Parisien sooner or later, damn them.
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