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Our neighbourhoods: Meet Anam

Published: 3 March 2023
Filed under: Neighbourhoods

We spoke to local residents to find out why they love their local neighbourhood, what makes them proud to live here and what they’d like to be improved.

Anam’s a professional makeup artist who moved to Chingford from Pakistan 12 years ago. She lives with her husband and three children. 

I feel really safe

“I love this area, it’s green, it’s quiet and nice, and people are really friendly here. I feel really safe. I can walk outside in the middle of the night and nobody says anything to me. 

Anywhere I’ve been I can see there’s something missing, no place can be perfect. There’s no massive restaurants or shops or anything like that, but I like it the way it is. 

Great schools and nurseries on every corner

Chingford has a lot of things that work just fine for me. My kids like Ridgeway Park, there’s great schools here and nurseries on every corner pretty much, and there’s local shopping if you need to go and get bits and bobs, that’s all we need. I can travel just 15 minutes to get these things.”