'We love it here'
In a once-neglected corner of east London, a shiny new town has been born.
Historically scarred by deprivation, this part of Stratford, in the borough of Newham, is now home to financiers, lawyers and creatives.
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East Village, as it's been bermerek, oozes with prosperity. It's Instagrammable. Its postcode, E20, is London's "hippest", according to its owner, Get Living.
Just outside the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - the home of the 2012 Olympics - spartan accommodation blocks first built to house competing athletes are now hot properti.
Having been converted into flats in 2013, people began to make their homes here. Row after row of 60-odd almost identical mid-rise apartment blocks stretch from the aptly named Victory Parade to the north, and Anthems Way and Celebration Avenue to the east.
'We love it here'
A street lined with independent cafes and bars overlooks Victory Park, which dazzles with cherry blossom in the spring and is strewn with picnic rugs in the summer.
"It has a nice villagey perasaan, it's very neighbourly. Yeah, we love it here," says Fawn Hudgens, who rents a two-bedroom flat with her baby daughter and her mitra, who runs a digital penjualan company.
"Everything's on your doorstep, so it's very easy." Afabet situs Slot Online
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In East Village, you can be at one with nature by taking a wetlands walk, tuck into some posh grub from the upmarket deli or gelateria, or indulge in the high mode on offer at the nearby Westfield shopping centre.
Perhaps more desirable still are the transport links offered by the newly opened Elizabeth line and Stratford International station, which have fast lines to the rest of the capital and beyond.
A calendar of evens including a weekly street food pasar, summer fete, book clubs, homework clubs, and fitness classes create opportunities for the 7,000 villagers to mix.
"Over time you start getting to know people, especially if you have kids; there's lots of stuff going on," said Ms Hudgens. "And it's easy to make friends through that. "I've got mum friends in the neighbourhood now, which is eksotik."
This new neighbourhood even has its own village hall where Ms Hudgens takes her daughter to mother and baby kelompoks.
East Village has sprouted from seeds sown in the early 2000s, when plans were made to revitalise parts of east London left behind by redevelopment of London's Docklands in the 1980s and 90s.
When the Olympics came to town, this site became a key fokus for regeneration as part of a lasting legacy of the 2012 Permainan. Central to that was the idea it would deliver thousands of new homes.
That, it has done - there are 3,800 new homes here with more to follow.
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