Ahh, Croydon – king of all chav towns, famous for finishing in the Top 10 of the Crap Towns and being the only town to feel “robbed” by their finish… A place famous throughout the UK for being a scum hole and got beaten by somewhere like Telford in it’s bid to become a shitty, erm.. sorry a city.. Chavs come from far and wide to worship at the pikey temple that is the Whitgift Shopping Centre, a place that has more McDonalds, KFC’s and Burger Kings than any other place on the planet – many a chav family can be seen having their Sunday lunch in one of these fine eateries. A massive TKMax is handily situated close to these food outlets so one can combine the eating and fake burberry shopping without walking too far and therefore reducing the chances of being spotted by the DSS and getting their fraudulent disability claims pulled. Lots of sport shops for the classic nike trackie bottoms and reebok classics combo, and many “up-market” clothes shops such as Budwals where you can buy Hackett, Nicholson and Lacoste gear at “wicked” prices.
However, night-time is when Croydon really comes into it’s own. The younger chavs are usually on their way home due to their curfew/electronic tags/time to feed the baby and this is when the older chavs (i.e: 15-20 yr olds) decide to descend on the Croydon “strip”. Yes, like Veronica’s in Tenerife, Croydon has a long road full of classy establishments such as the Goose on the Market (which not only has chavs flocking there in number for the cheap drinks but also has the scum bags from Surrey Street Market lowering the tone) and McKluskeys, a place so chavvie that a bouncer was recently gunned down in a “drive-by”. Reports that the shooter was in a souped-up Fiesta are unconfirmed…. You do have the more up-market bars such as Yates, Edwards and Tiger Tiger but these are inaccessible for most chavs due to their over 21’s/only older scumbags policy. Last but not least there is the infamous Blue Orchid nightclub which has people from as far and wide as Bromley, Streatham, Sutton & Essex (!) queuing up to get in and rophy’ed up.
Throw in the “Rude Boy/Gangsta” element that also plagues this delightful place and you really do have the Chav Town! Luckily, I managed to escape 2 years ago but I still travel back every so often just to get a bit of “reality”. If anyone wants to see chavs in their natural environment and run the risk of getting mugged, stabbed, raped, glassed, shot or just plain “dissed” then come down to Croydon, it’s even got Chav trams which are free to chavs until they get caught by the ‘gadgets’ (inspectors)! Enjoy! For more proof check out a fellow Croydonians website: http://members.aol.com/slunksoma/front.html
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The ghastly Linsey Dawn McKenzie, a freakishly large-breasted “glamma” model (innit) with a penchant for soap actor boyfriends and appearing in downmarket shows on ITchaV, comes from Croydon. Which says it all.
I’m sitting here wearing my entirely Croydon-bought outfit: Primark tee-shirt (£3), the cheapest Primark jeans (£4), Primark underpants and Primark socks. Priceless Shoes is where I bought my sneakers (£10). My favourite shop is Lidl.
I moved to Croydon 5 years ago and i think it’s improved! Yes there are some chavvy areas, but no worse than other London boroughs. There are always some that let the side down, but i do think that Croydonites are improving if you go to the right areas, you wont know where you are!
I’ve just spent the last 30 minutes or so reading these posts and pi55ing myself laughing at some of the comments. I am a northerner who managed to escape the “GRIM” north ten years ago and move to North London. Due to job/relationship I moved near Croydon about 5 years ago. Within the first week of moving in the Police yellow alert board was displayed up the road… “wanted witness to fatal shooting”..
It sort of summed it all up back then..
In the last 5 years I have been here I have tried to stay out of Croydon as much as possible. On my rare trips in I have found the deterioration of the place really depressing. I’m just glad I don’t actually live in the town. One of my colleagues is a Croydon resident who does defend it and says “its not that bad in xxxxx area”..
Croydon is the pit of hell.. Peckham used to be. From what I have read/heard of the history the people who didnt want to be involved in crime/drugs/yob life/chav life people moved from Peckham to Croydon in the late 80s/early 90s and in the last 20 years these people have now moved even further afield being forced to move again because of overflow again of the chav lifestyle….
It won’t ever stop… the only way to avoid the chavs now is go somewhere that USED to be classed as “inner city” but has now been developed beyond the chav affordability….. if you can…
ie… get back towards the centre of London… let the chavs have the countryside.