Sure was true in 2006, and doubt it's changed that much. Does depend on whether you count the local corner shop's token shelf of manky veg, as there's few places that are further than that from any shop, but many, many housing estates or areas of terraces houses where the nearest shops are an offie/newsagent, chippy/takeaway, bookie and hairdresser, and nothing else in easy walking distance. I've been there myself, two handy pubs but not even a pint of milk in under a 20 minute walk - nearest was Mill Hill Broadway. Where I think the only veg were in the tiny M&S. Previous year my housing may have been illegally skanky in many ways, but was near a Food Giant, 1p baked beans in KwikSave, and 20 ethnic groceries trying to sell you stuff and if you said you didn't know what to do with a strange vegetable, they'd give us one free and say what to do. And.was dirt cheap. I ate much better that year than when I had 3x the disposable income in Mill Hill.
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Date: 2013-03-06 02:16 pm (UTC)Previous year my housing may have been illegally skanky in many ways, but was near a Food Giant, 1p baked beans in KwikSave, and 20 ethnic groceries trying to sell you stuff and if you said you didn't know what to do with a strange vegetable, they'd give us one free and say what to do. And.was dirt cheap. I ate much better that year than when I had 3x the disposable income in Mill Hill.