Another random thing about London is something called Council Housing. Back in Massachusetts, I think we called it Housing Projects. There is one thing about it that is very different in London besides the name.
Before living here, my personal experience with housing projects was that they were situated in areas distinctly separate from where the wealthy lived. In fact, it was almost guaranteed that the area surrounding a housing project was an undesirable one that those with a choice would avoid. This is not so in London, where council housing smack in the middle of prosperous neighborhoods seems a rather common occurrence. For example, when we lived at Crumpet Corner, a woman living in the flat above us was a house cleaner for Simon Cowell. He had a house about a half mile away. From his multimillion pound home, Mr. Cowell could easily walk 10 minutes in several directions to visit council housing.
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