Let's move to: Norbury, south London | Money | The Guardian

Let's move to: Norbury, south London | Money | The Guardian

What's going for it? I had to look up Norbury on the map. It's one of those generic suburban names, such as Pinner or Surbiton or Purley, that I assumed existed only in the imaginations of 1970s sitcom writers. But Norbury does exist and, I'm told, it's The New Wimbledon. Which it's not. There's probably nothing its estate agents and residents would like more than for Norbury to be the new Wimbledon, but there's no international home of tennis here, no Nu Toffs priced out of Fulham, no cutesy gift shops and hardly any Bugaboos. ..

The case against Extraordinarily ordinary: it would take a keen eye to distinguish Norbury .....