Shoreditch on Sea - Londoners head for the coast 

I love it when Londoners become utterly baffled at the concept that there's a whole country outside the M25 😂

And the Londoners will price out the Margate locals !!! And so it goes on and on !!!!

1:57 -”Hipsters,artists and gay’s” lol

I don't think London will regret the departure of Leanne and Matt. Leanne definitely has 'Live, laugh, love' stenciled above her bed.

I used to live 10 miles from the coast and had a car at the time. Went there very often, even for a pointless stroll at 8pm on a summer's evening straight after work. I just loved the feeling of looking out to nothing, watching boats on the horizon, feeling the breeze and listening to the tide lapping in and out... it was heaven. It taught me that I actually really like living near water and lots of people would agree. The coast is very popular with young people. --- I'm now 31 and have never lived or worked in London. I would consider a commute to work there, but live there? Absolutely not. I'm too used to a much higher quality of life that would be totally impossible in London unless I was earning nearly six figures. That is just not feasible.

Margate has genuinely improved a lot in the last decade or so. It's still very grimy in places, but that's part of the appeal I guess. The beachfront and old town are genuinely nice now.

Average cost of a London home now £ 600,000....

yet they completely ignore the reason London got so expensive.

We've made a 30 minute walk through of Margate today to show it to those who haven't yet been, and well... just in appreciation really as we think it's becoming a great town. Thank you for sharing your video, interesting what the future will hold.

Yes Margate is coming up and it's getting better every year just a shame they can't do enough for Ramsgate either I've lived here 17 years and a lot has changed since I moved down here there's a lot more jobs down here there's a lot more housing down here but also there's a lot of people that are homeless as well

"do you live to work or do you work to live" is a phrase that I think reinforces the idea that all work just has to be a necessary evil that's in the way of day to day life. I think that this is a harmful way of thinking. A lot of us do live to work, we love our jobs, we take pride in what we do, the service we provide, the things we make, it gives us purpose and a sense of pride and fulfillment in day to day life in an otherwise pointless world. The idea that if you're not burning away tonnes of cash on pointless vanity items, holidays etc that you're not living is a toxic attitude that ultimately makes selfish, unfulfilled people that only care what they look like in a photo. We should work to change work culture, so that jobs are not just a necessary evil to pay the bills, but something fulfilling and worthwhile.

Who wouldn't want to live by the ocean in a smaller community.

London has kicked itself in the teeth.

I would hate to live in the city, give me the coast any day

The people who made this film have deliberately shown the worst parts of the town and ignored the best and beautiful parts. We rent a small cottage in the old town of Margate, it’s beautiful and reasonably prices, only two minutes from the Turner Centre, old Harbor and the beach. It’s surrounded by o-en countryside and only a few miles from Canterbury. Fantastic place. Look for holiday cottage Margate on line and then find the two cottages in love lane by the market place. Brilliant.

And were are the locals supposed to live. NOW BEING PRICED OUT. BECAUSE OF ALL THESE LONDONERS.

wait why am I watching this

House prices in London really are scary but nowhere near as terryfying as that estate agents eyebrows bouncing up and down @ 2:58

I'm from Cardiff and I worry the same thing will happen here. I think some of Cardiff's residents may move to West Wales or South Wales Valleys. The prices are so much nicer there.

White flight from London is MASSIVE. 🤔🤔🤔

If someone can find a nice job and house in picturesque seaside town why not. London is beautiful but it is very expensive and sometimes very stressful. Commuting everyday is a solution but two to three hours in a train or car daily isn't nice.

£5 train ticket to Margate for me, worth it for a day out

These are the same people who made east London so dear in the first place with their artisan workshops and retro motorcycles. They've established themselves so they can work from a remote place and emulate as if they're in their office in London. And now want to sell their expensive London flat because they can't afford a house and want to reap the profit and do the same to Margate. Do not let them in Margate.

Shore ditch east London is all about techi hipsters ... blowing money insanely

Making Margate as expensive as London will be the end result.!

Finally the penny has dropped. People are now beginning to realise that they don’t need to live in London. They never did need to live in London really. They are now finally realising that they’ve wasted so much money and so much time. I do feel sorry for them. And with the age of the Internet you don’t really need to work in London anymore. My cousin moved down to London 15 years ago. Her and her husband are now moving back up north.

The creative people are now independent of physical location and have copped on that a high cost of living can be tempered by reducing the costs even if this means having a lower income in a cheaper location. The same mechanism is happening in other countries, the lady at 7.11 mentions Dublin as being a cheap location, she is very wrong. Inner city Dublin is now very expensive with rents for basic 2 bed appartments now approaching €2,000 per month and landlords demanding 2 or three months rent in advance as a deposit. The references and employer records and financial information required has reached comically intrusive levels. Many large MNC's have to buy and let out properties in order to ensure a steady inward flow of employees. This is now the number one constraint to Dublins economic development and growth. For a small and isolated city on the edge of Europe Dublins rents are nearly as dear as Paris or Berlin and nearly as dear as Londons, an insane level of rent.

Nearly 60 million of lottery and arts council money has been put in to The Turner contemporary and Dreamland , that’s a lot of money for a few cafes and a few vintage shops. You don’t build an economy subsidising people’s hobby’s . Read The book by Tracy Emin it is very good . There is also a lot of petty crime in Margate due to the large amount of unemployed .

London is a tourist city. Great to visit......awful to live.

Do they even do research? Just buy near a London midland line station. Cheap property 20 minutes away from Euston.

How does all the immigrants afford to live there ???

San Francisco to L.A... yeah exactly like London to Margate!! 😂

Most Londoners actually live and settled in Essex which is next door to London where most can travel to see thier families those that are left in London most work in the city of London and commute into London .

there are parts of London that are completely affordable it's just most people are picky about where they live and think they're too good to live in a run down working class area

Herne Bay is on the up

My bestie moved there. She loves it!!!!

These people moving from London have made it near enough impossible for local people to afford to buy or even rent in areas, it’s disgusting what these people are doing to local communities etc

The BBC lives in a parallel universe.

You mean to tell me theres other towns and places to live outside the M25?

What is the Queen and her two grandsons doing to help?? Answer - 0

6:13 Nice hat.

I was going to move there in 2012

I'm glad I bought my 2 bedroom, ex-council flat in London back in '05!

told you so. time for a price ROCKET... look out margate….

Yes is beyond..

I'm from Margate and it's been invaded by DFLs, down from London

It’s more simple to move to benidorm Spain

2:24 - Adele just bought a house in Margate.

Rather funny cos I live literally within a 1 mile radius from Margate 😂

Yes, but what is not mentioned in this documentary is the price of a season ticket from Margate to London: it''s nearly £6000. Additionally, this documentary fails to mention the huge positives of working and living in London. It's an economic,political, social and technological cluster. Few cities can match this. Perhaps New York or Tokyo. Cluster of banking, insurance, Digital start-ups, access to legal knowledge and ithe heart of political power is essential for large corporations. Where else will you find such a concentration of interconnected businesses? Of course, silly me: Margate or Hastings. London is so big it's like a black hole: it sucks in everything around it. So, the commentators on this program who call it Shoreditch-On'Sea and predict that London will soon become a ghost town because it's all happening in Margate have little or no knowledge of how a capital city works. Additionally, I suspect they've had a liquid lunch prior to being interviewed. I would rather live in near-by Hastings than Margate, and even then I'd have to be dragged down to Hastings kicking and screaming. They're both toilet holes!! That's why they put unemployed people down there

look at those old films....there were actually English people there back then

If your new home in Margate is a bungalow to retire in you are looking at spending £300.00 plus for a 2 bed & £500.00 plus for a 3 bed. Parts of Margate is run down & you can buy those properties, houses & flats, at a reasonable price but you have to factor in the renovation costs. The North winds blow so is cooler than other seaside towns. High Streets are fading because of new shopping malls. Regeneration is slow. Dreamland is on/off & no perks if you are a resident. Great transport links to London. Good local transport so long as you are on the loop route. Routes can change at barely any notice. Nice sandy beaches not horrible pebble/ gravel beaches & lots of beaches to visit.

“Large garden” 🤣

They're nomads anyway, real East Enders left decades ago. Margit was populated by Londoners ages ago who will now be driven out by these creative 50 types of coffee lightweights. How about some jellied eels and pie and mash ya ponces.

The journey to London if you work there is so very slow. They need a fast service from Margate.

Somebody at the BBC is using the platform to advertise the area for their chums to sell their old houses. I do love a bandwagon.

in goring by sea near Worthing you can buy a house for £1000

Try British home for Britons first.

Southend on sea

unfortunately i got screwd over and had to come back but i left london and the south all together and went up north my wages of as a labouer were the same there was as much work as london yet on 10 pound per hour 40 hours a week i would make enouth to suport a famaly if the women worked 12 hours

Don't move to Dublin, the situation is even worse than London.

thank you England for voting today to show the world that democracy will never die

Someone please fix Georgia eyebrows jesus

Margate used to be lovely, then the councils decided it would be a convenient dumping ground for undesirables, now they want to spend millions trying to put right their mistakes. Can Margate come good again ? Maybe, but they've been saying that for at least 30 years. Are you feeling lucky ?!!

Brexit ready!!

White flight

thanet WHAT A DUMP! GLAD TO HAVE FLED THAT SHOT WHOLE OF A PLACE BACK IN 1990. seriously. The place is "RIFE" !

Could this be the beginning of Londoners realising that what they believe to be the best city in the world is actually one of the worst

I know where I'd rather be

These people definitely need to realise that their unwillingness to recognise letting every man and his dog in leads to this scenario. If you don't want to be pushed out then don't support policies that are pushing you out.

True , the people that made in London are not in London , and as you see London has no charm anymore

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But then it will make margate expensive, and just get the same problem. Margate is a dump

Ugh Margate is a horrendous, depressing place to live

Margate is just as expensive as LONDON!

HAGS 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol... I think i'd rather stay in London tbh

London immigration is not the reason why rents are high it's due economics and earning ,it was poor immigrants coming into London working long hours and contributing just like the British born were too nowadays London is rapidly being gentrified and new high earners are coming in and pushing and pricing many out and rentals have gone through the roof ,these new comers gentrifiers don't care about the born and bred and locals who made London what it is today ,now you have so much new faces and people who lived in London are segregated all over the country in places they don't want to live in such a shame but nothing last forever.

ah the pioneering hipsters, artists and gays

One word. Immigration.😉

Ah yes, the pioneering hipsters, artists, and *gays*

i rarely see white person in west london hounslow or southall

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Vote UKIP and don't let Londoner's in our towns and cities

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i WENT 3 times in London, and NO MORE ! Keep your rich land lords from Arabia, China, Russia etc ......I am muuuuuuuch better outside ! Until will not be affordable to buy and rise myself a property : frowned upon !

You give a man the opportunity to make money off of his fellow men and he will. Housing is a right. Houses and flats should be given by the state, not hoarded by greedy rich people to drive poor people into debt or exile. Yes, I am saying implementation of socialism is necessary.