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
I’ve never eaten at Cafe 5 but it seems like a great spot. You’re the first person I’ve heard divine Easton into upper and lower! I’d love to know where you consider the boundary to be?
Approx.where Stapleton Rd is cut across by 1970s style cars rule Easton Way,and the area past All Hallows Rd + towards Old Market,the flat land. But I don't live in Easton and residents of any area have a micro- awareness of tiny differences in the feel of streets and places that outside observers miss.
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
I’ve never eaten at Cafe 5 but it seems like a great spot. You’re the first person I’ve heard divine Easton into upper and lower! I’d love to know where you consider the boundary to be?
Approx.where Stapleton Rd is cut across by 1970s style cars rule Easton Way,and the area past All Hallows Rd + towards Old Market,the flat land. But I don't live in Easton and residents of any area have a micro- awareness of tiny differences in the feel of streets and places that outside observers miss.
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So good Meg
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