Albert Square ... How Do They Afford Their Houses?

lostinrates

SingleSue wrote: »

It came from Walthamstow and Chingford and is meant to be set in between the two places....well that was what one of the books which accompanied the show said in the 80's!

Yep, I was a sad teenager who liked Eastenders and bought all the books.

Wow, thats a good bit of trivia! I've not been to Chingford, but Walthomstow seems far more on the nail. We can relax a little knowing its MEANT to be an E postcode not an EC one. I'll tell the cats;)

SingleSue

I only remembered because of Walthamstow and E17.....Eastenders has the fictional postcode of E20.

BitterAndTwisted

As I see it, the reason why housing issues aren't addressed or explained in the show is completely down to the kind of people who write and produce the series. I'd bet good money that not a single person on the whole production team including the commissioners and series producers has any direct experience or understanding of what "normal, working-class' people in London or anywhere else in the country have to deal with. That the series comes under Light Entertainment rather than Factual or Documentary is probably another reason. I suspect that the only contact most of them have with the working-classes or the underclass are the notes they leave for their cleaners once or twice a week plus standing next to us on the tube to White City every now and then.

SandC

hieveryone wrote: »

I remember the Friends writer defending this once - he said that the reason they could afford that apartment in the storyline was 'rent control' - an old New York law that allowed rents to be capped at a certain level.

Also the apartment was in Monica's gran or aunt's name and not hers otherwise she would never have been able to stay there.