Saw this on the joe rogan Reddit 
can legit see Joe talking about this
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A4TT if he ever runs into Arteta in person.
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“From the makers of circle jerky”
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That was very satisfying to watch lol
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Hahaha that’s Forest Gate. For anyone unfamiliar, it’s not the part of town to be jumping on randomers cars. She found out the hard way.
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I used to live in Maryland, literally around the corner from here. As @JakeyBoy alluded to, it’s a fucking cesspit and not the kind of place you want to be running those kind of games lol
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I thought that was a rational reaction even if it was not a rough neighborhood.
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I think she is on drugs
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Her mobile is fucked
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I didn’t realise you lived round Maryland way. Not sure if it’s at all improved these days and got a bit of love from all the regeneration around Stratford, but back when I lived in East London as a teen it’s name stood out even among many fucked up places in East London lol.
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This makes me really intrigued.
What would guys say is the roughest neighbourhood in East London? I always hear Newham mentioned but I don’t really know if that’s just the news blowing knife crime stats out of proportion
I actually met my ex wife in Stratford and when we got together we moved to Maryland and then lived just off Romford Road around Atherton Leisure Centre sides.
Safe to say that it was easily the worst place I’ve ever lived in and I don’t think it’s particularly close lol. I live in Highbury now, surrounded by normal people a stones throw away from Upper Street. Total 180 lol
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My dad lived in Upper St. before the war. That’s how I inherited the Highbury gene.
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That’s a massive 180. I love the area around Upper Street, so many nice restaurants and cafes. Plus that little florist that looks like it’s straight off the film set of Notting Hill. Always said if I somehow got super wealthy I’d like to live round that way (super wealthy so I could afford to buy I mean, not rent, though rent round there’s obvs a madness too lol)
@Cristo Newham is my home borough, where I went to school and grew up. Its rough as fuck lol. There definitely was an issue with knife crime (I’m less sure now but definitely when I was growing up there), I knew several people who got stabbed and quite a few who got nabbed for possessing knives. If you got into any sort of altercation you’d have to consider the decent likelihood of the other people having knives.
East Ham, Plaistow, Canning Town, Stratford, Manor Park and Forest Gate are all in Newham and are rough areas. Tower Hamlets is a pretty rough borough too. As is Hackney in parts, but there’s there’s real mix of affluence and poverty in Hackney, moreso than there is in Tower Hamlets or Newham, which I’d say are pretty much generally deprived.
Those three boroughs spring to mind for me in terms of rough parts of London, but thats with a heavy bias towards East London as its the “quarter” of London I’m most familiar with. In terms of deprivation though, Tower Hamlets and Newham are definitely two of Londons worst, thats not just my familiarity speaking.
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Tbh I’m pretty much just enjoying the banter right now. We’ve sunk as low as we can get. The season feels over. It’s been proven Arteta is out of his depth. Edu is a fraud. Our owners don’t give a shit.
Reaching rock bottom is actually a pleasant place to be. It can’t get any worse and all our future failures this year won’t come as a surprise.
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Thanks for the clarification. It’s interesting to hear about these areas as I know of them but don’t know them.
I’m not a Londoner by birth so there’s still a lot for me to learn about London in that sense.
I had some friends who were fairly senior at the bank I used to work at and they lived in Hackney so I can imagine what you mean about it being a mixed bag and going through the process of gentrification. Do you ever see places like Newham and Tower Hamlets going through the same type of gentrification that Hackney and Brixton are going through?