Selma

I am reluctant to join in this discussion thread, as it is getting rather
personal!  However I wish to make 2 points about the article "Welcome to
Gated Britain".

1. I quote from it  "There are now more than 1,000 gated communities in
England. More than 100,000 people live in them, predominantly in London and
the south-east - but increasingly right across the country."
London is not England, it is the capital of England, folk from abroad
often tend to get the two muddled up, and as the article says, while these
gated properties are predominent in the *south-east and London*, they are
also beginning to crop up elsewhere  i.e. not just London.
So your comment below is incorrect:
>I take it your driving around London is a bit limited then, since you've
missed everyone of these 1,000 gated communities and your> >friend circle
must be even less, if you've never come across anyone of those 100,000
people who reportedly live in them.>
Driving around London only, will not help your search for gated communities
if that is your leisure activity. You would need to drive around the whole
of England to look for the 1,000 such communities mentioned,  and not just
London.
Incidentally, the article actually talks about the one visited in Aldlerly
Edge in Cheshire which is a long way from London, and is in Footballer Land
where the residents earn so much, they live in constant fear of being
robbed! Well what do they expect!!

2. The 2006 census (the most recent one) showed the population of England to
be 50,762,900 (and the whole of the UK at 60,857,300). The article "Welcome
to Gated Britain" states that 100,000 live in such communities. This is a
mere drop in the ocean of the vastness of the total population, dont you
agree?

I personally think that where gated communities exist in any country, they
are an urban feature, rather than a rural one. I go to London at least once
a month and I know of one such property in Fulham, but then I go there
mainly to get my fix of good Indian food which I am unable to get where I
live! :-)
On which irrevelant point....if anyone is interested Tayyabs in Fieldgate
Street, Whitechapel is an excellent BYO restaurant, great food and
reasonable prices.

Luisa

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