Croydon (Croydon in General)

Member Name: miss_shh

Product:	Croydon in General
Date:	28/01/09 (28 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Close to London

Disadvantages: Not the nicest place to live

i have to admit, Croydon wasn't my favourite city to live in. the city centre was fine, and very generic, with a shopping centre and very good transport links (there are three train stations in croydon, an excellent bus service and a tram as well), a cinema, bars, clubs etc. However, you can end up in the wrong part of town very quickly. West croydon especially looks like a ghetto, and is quite frightening - it''s a marked difference from east croydon which is bright and fresh and seems like it's had time and money spent on it.

I'd live here again, it's in zone five of london and understandably has great links into the city, but it wouldn't be my first choice by any stretch of the imagination. I hate to imagine what the credit crunch has done to some of the areas that seemed to be struggling, hopefully they'll be a bit of money and love injected into the town again, to clean it up and encourage people to visit again.
[Originally posted on www.helphound.com]

Summary: An average English city