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Jane Baker's avatar

Cafe 5 up by the cycle track crossing. I'm from an era when Easton was a place of poverty and deprivation so it was a huge mind shock for me nearly ten years ago when I discovered it was now super Uber posh and everyone who lives there now has got at least two degrees and works in bio-chemical research or creative media. But that's Upper Easton. But by the looks of what's being developed around Silverthorne and Gas Lane maybe the "poor people" won't be at Lower Easton in 20 years time. The difficulty about deploring gentrification is that 1) it makes areas so nice to be in 2) it's the educated better off (not rich really)who see and appreciate the innate beauty in a townscape like Easton and places all over the country,even world and just as those places become desirable the "poor people" who are getting priced out realise their predicament but too late. You don't know what you got till it's gone

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Lana-Emerald Mary Astin's avatar

'Rumour has it that Shakira actually says ‘Injera injera’ at the start of Hips Don’t Lie' :) :)

So good Meg

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