Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
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Permalink Reply by Abi on
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44% on Seven Sisters - nothing very surprising there.
I thought car ownership would be significantly higher than it is though (just 40% or something??) but this is mostly because as a non-driver myself it often feels like the entire rest of the world has a car.
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Permalink Reply by Angela on
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I got 40%. I was quite close on some of them but way off on others, eg the car ownership as well as the number of properties with a mortgage or loan. I got the first question absolutely right!
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Permalink Reply by SarahC on
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I got that one wrong too, but because as a non-driver I assumed everyone else was too...
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Permalink Reply by Jay Owens on
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39% about St Ann's. Surprised by the religiousness and median age (young!)
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Permalink Reply by Bethany Burrow Atherton on
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68%. But that was largely (I think) due to guessing the car/van one exactly right, and it was a complete guess.
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That's why this site DOES NOT represent the majority of the area, as it's mainly owner occupiers on here whinging (pretending to care) for example about people living in 'HMOs'. Great site but don't pretend it represents opinion of the majority that live here.
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But does anyone claim it does? It represents the opinion of people who like reading sites like this...
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Dave, it's a website, not a referendum.
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Thanks for saying its a great site but not sure why you have to make a leap from the census data to claiming that this site has ever claimed to *represent* anyone. It's a platform, a website and, as Sarah says reflects the opinion of people with an internet connection.
You make huge assumptions about the makeup of the members which you can't really substantiate beyond your own opinion that its people "whinging (pretending to care)" about stuff. That is maybe what you take away from it but you're no more representative of the area than anyone else and your personal take no more reflects reality than mine - especially as I've noticed you like to seek out threads where a bit of debate is going on and add your own unique take on it, Dave, however, there are dozens of threads every week on all topics where you don't give us the benefit of your wisdom. Is it perhaps you come to the lively threads because you ENJOY the "whinging" as you so charmingly put it and being able to have a little pop when the situation arises?
I think this site works well because people tend not to take too many swings at their neighbours or take them to task for their perceived shortcomings.
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I agree with what some of Dave says but also agree with some of Liz's points. Although I disagree with you Liz when you say it reflects the opinion of people with an internet connection and have heard of Harringay Online and who choose to post (as opposed to reading the weekly round up every so often)
The median age is 31, 47% have degrees, 23% have a current mortgage or loan on a home and 15% have a child/children under the age 16. Those are the interesting numbers for me.
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Yes the internet connection remark was a little flippant, I admit. There are many groups of people in Haringey who don't interact on the internet at all because they are not connected to it at home or work. And those that are there probably conform to the 1% rule
In a similar vein, the media can refer to 'Twitter storms' and write whole articles about Twitter faux pas as though they reflect the mood of the nation when in fact the majority of the population don't even use Twitter.
However, all communities have ways to amplify the voices of the few and they're not all online. This online community now sitting at over 8,000 members (and over 4,000 followers on Twitter), doesn't claim to *represent* anyone, unlike some of the offline community groups with considerably more clout and many many fewer members.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I'll be very interested to see the LSE research on communications in Harringay when it's published. The researchers took the wise step of looking at all forms of communication in the neighbourhood, including informal hubs and networks like local hairdressers. I'm sure we'll find a rich and diverse network of communications of which HoL is just a part.
I've never made that HoL speaks for the neighbourhood, but it does offer a gauge to what some parts of it are thinking and what is important. With 300,000 visits from 30,000 people every month, it has its place alongside the local hairdressers, church groups and all the others.
I hope the LSE research will make it clear that no one group or network speaks for our whole community.
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