The London Banana

Last year someone drew a banana on a map of London and it went viral. The banana starts in Barnet and aims for central London keeping east of the Edgware Road. It includes pretty much all of Camden, Islington and Westminster, but only the affluent western slice of Haringey. It then swings southwest through Kensington & Chelsea and Fulham before crossing the Thames into (most of) Lambeth, Wandsworth, Merton, Richmond and Kingston. The eastern half of London doesn't get a look in. Initially it wasn't so much the map that went viral but the incendiary accompanying comment. This is the London Banana. As long as you stay within the Banana, you'll have a great time in London. Almost everything outside the Banana is horrible these days, best avoid. Not clear why, or when this happened. But it is what it is. A brutal generalisation, demonstrably false, but with a hint of truth to it. People agreed. » "There is a lot of truth and accuracy in this, it must be said" » "Has been the case for…

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