> However, the well-known lane has become a hub for hipsters, pushing up rents.
This sentence wouldn’t appear in this form in *any* other outlet’s copy. MyLondon is abysmal and it needs to be banned from this sub.
The blame for sky high rent is everyones fault… but the landlords
“It’s changed a lot, everything’s changed. This used to be the junkyard of the UK, the worst place to live in London. Now everyone wants to move here.”
This quote is odd as fuck. Does he want to be back to the junkyard of the UK?
The industry he’s in has changed, increasingly online. Fashions have changed & real leather is increasingly rare.
Looks like the Top Gear wardrobe department in the background. They’ve put Hammonds stuff on the top shelf to annoy him.
This is a story I’ve heard from everyone from little independent booths in Camden market to my friends that own design studios. Blaming it on hipsters is idiotic. There is massive ongoing shift in how we use space and of course out of control wealth inequality, energy costs, inflation and corporate greed.
To be honest, the shop looks like a shit hole, maybe if he’d kept it looking nice and up with the times then it would be more popular and he’d be able to afford the rent.
You only need so many leather jacket shops on one road…. And this one looks a bit shit.
MyLondon posting clickbaity rubbish again to get you to sift through their ads
‘He estimates that rents for his shop had gone up by 300% over the last four years. He said: “Things are hard. People will disappear like the others have, lots of people have.’
This is why everything is dying on the high street same goes for nightlife too
I bought a leather jacket from there once, it was very nice.
The only reason he’s made it to 50 is because of tourists coming and buying ‘something from brick lane’. On any other high street in the country, a random leather jacket shop would’ve been out of business since the end of the nineties.
Oh well. I used to live down the street from Brick Lane, and these little shops were all wildly out of my price range. I bought from the street vendors selling jeans for ten quid instead.
Makes no difference to me whether they survive or not.
Paris has a huge portion of its shops owned by the government/ council and they rent out cheap to independent traders to keep an areas character. Be fucking awesome if we could get that here.
Going to be honest, every time I hear an “independent mom and pop shop owner” moan about the current situation and their uncertain future, I want to see their voting records.
Walk around Rome and you’ll find hundreds of individually owned and operated shops, and barely any chains. What gives?
There’s a proper pizza place near me. As you would expect, they cater to early morning crews, then slices for school children, then to the evening crowd. When I say proper, I mean dough made in-house, wood fired HOT oven, brick and spatulas all over the place and decent prices. If *that* shop closed, a shop that as far as I’m concerned serves the area, then I’ll shed a tear.
But if rent is what’s driving you out, it’s maybe time to introduce a pointy wooden tube, perhaps enhanced with a metal pointy bit, to the landlords larynx.
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> However, the well-known lane has become a hub for hipsters, pushing up rents.
This sentence wouldn’t appear in this form in *any* other outlet’s copy. MyLondon is abysmal and it needs to be banned from this sub.
The blame for sky high rent is everyones fault… but the landlords
“It’s changed a lot, everything’s changed. This used to be the junkyard of the UK, the worst place to live in London. Now everyone wants to move here.”
This quote is odd as fuck. Does he want to be back to the junkyard of the UK?
The industry he’s in has changed, increasingly online. Fashions have changed & real leather is increasingly rare.
Looks like the Top Gear wardrobe department in the background. They’ve put Hammonds stuff on the top shelf to annoy him.
This is a story I’ve heard from everyone from little independent booths in Camden market to my friends that own design studios. Blaming it on hipsters is idiotic. There is massive ongoing shift in how we use space and of course out of control wealth inequality, energy costs, inflation and corporate greed.
To be honest, the shop looks like a shit hole, maybe if he’d kept it looking nice and up with the times then it would be more popular and he’d be able to afford the rent.
You only need so many leather jacket shops on one road…. And this one looks a bit shit.
MyLondon posting clickbaity rubbish again to get you to sift through their ads
‘He estimates that rents for his shop had gone up by 300% over the last four years. He said: “Things are hard. People will disappear like the others have, lots of people have.’
This is why everything is dying on the high street same goes for nightlife too
I bought a leather jacket from there once, it was very nice.
The only reason he’s made it to 50 is because of tourists coming and buying ‘something from brick lane’. On any other high street in the country, a random leather jacket shop would’ve been out of business since the end of the nineties.
Oh well. I used to live down the street from Brick Lane, and these little shops were all wildly out of my price range. I bought from the street vendors selling jeans for ten quid instead.
Makes no difference to me whether they survive or not.
Paris has a huge portion of its shops owned by the government/ council and they rent out cheap to independent traders to keep an areas character. Be fucking awesome if we could get that here.
Going to be honest, every time I hear an “independent mom and pop shop owner” moan about the current situation and their uncertain future, I want to see their voting records.
Walk around Rome and you’ll find hundreds of individually owned and operated shops, and barely any chains. What gives?
There’s a proper pizza place near me. As you would expect, they cater to early morning crews, then slices for school children, then to the evening crowd. When I say proper, I mean dough made in-house, wood fired HOT oven, brick and spatulas all over the place and decent prices. If *that* shop closed, a shop that as far as I’m concerned serves the area, then I’ll shed a tear.
But if rent is what’s driving you out, it’s maybe time to introduce a pointy wooden tube, perhaps enhanced with a metal pointy bit, to the landlords larynx.
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