1. Mangal 1 is better than Mangal 2.
2. ...but Umut 2000 is the best of all.
3. The Dalston Superstore is better by day than by night.
4. Hackney's drag queens are the best in the land.
5. E. Pelicci do the best breakfast.
6. Except for Evin Cafe in Dalston, whose gozleme and menemen are unbeatable.
7. The meadow bit of London Fields is better than the festival bit.
8. Swimming in the lido feels like the best treat ever.
9. £1.5million for a three bed house is a fucking joke.
10. Half a million quid for a one bed flat is a fucking joke.
11. There are more coffee shops than dog shits on the pavement.
12. And there are A LOT of dogs in East London.
13. Shoreditch house is full of bankers, but you'd secretly like to be a member so you could swim in the pool on the roof.
14. It's is surprisingly fun to go on a hipster safari in Dalston.
15. There are too many. Fucking. Jam jars.
16. Brick Lane is tooooo busy on Sundays.
17. You wouldn't wish the Overground between Stratford and Highbury on your worst enemy.
18. You have a weird desire to step onto the neon green algae-covered canal.
19. There are too many hipsters.
20. And too many burgers.
21. The closure of Passing Clouds was a goddamn tragedy.
22. And the day the developers destroy Ridley Road Market, is the day Hackney dies.
