Quote Originally Posted by The Jorge View Post
I'm not entirely sure it's done by design, these things happen organically. Of course, the east end has always done a fairly good job of assimilating immigrants and then having them bugger off elsewhere within a generation or two.

I cant imagine the systematic purging of local authority housing, gentrification and the willing over/hyperinflation of the london housing market has positive effects on any of these things either.

And this is speaking as someone who could say they've been gentrified out of my natural born area too.
You said you left because it was a ****hole, I thought?