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Originally Posted by muppet
Interestingly the reverse is now happening in the 'burbs. Those leafy lanes are now seeing a White, South Asian, Jewish and Caribbean 'flight' as people sell on their banal semi-detached for a solid gold castle in the provinces, while the leafy south London suburbs are now being invaded by the middle class ethnic communities being generated from the former Inner City ring (as it gets converted into royal hunting grounds for the world's elite).
It's a constant, traditional churn as Londoners make their money and leave for more family-friendly climes (which is why the Kent and Essex accents are now extinct and replaced with Cockney, while their former East End stomping grounds have been replaced with MLE and Bengali tinged accents), then a few years later a new generation of their kids move back to find opportunity in the bright lights.
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Some demographic data I posted in an old thread - wonder how much it's changed:
Inner north (former London County): 1,496,742
City of London and Camden, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Tower Hamlets, Westminster
Ethnicity: 61% White, 14.3% Asian, 11.2% Black
% level 4+ qualification: 47.4%
Inner south (former London County): 1,428,806
Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark, Wandsworth
Ethnicity: 59.9% White, 7.7% Asian, 22.4% Black
% level 4+ qualification: 43.5%
Outer north: 3,608,737
Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Newham, Redbridge, Waltham Forest
Ethnicity: 52.9% White, 24.8% Asian, 12.7% Black
% level 4+ qualification: 31.2%
Outer south: 1,641,656
Bexley, Bromley, Croydon, Kingston upon Thames, Merton, Richmond upon Thames, Sutton
Ethnicity: 73.9% White, 10.3% Asian, 9% Black
% level 4+ qualification: 35%