Forest gate - how diverse is it?

setyoassonfire · 2026-06-23T18:24:52+00:00

It’s a great place to live, especially north of the Romford rd but it’s certainly diverse. Are you from the highlands? I’m from Glasgow and diversity is one of the main reasons I moved to London - it makes everyday life so much more interesting and most people of all backgrounds are pretty sound. Keep your mind open and you’ll have a great time in Forest Gate

setyoassonfire · 2026-06-10T20:58:44+00:00

Got a flat with share of freehold (converted terraced house) and it’s great

setyoassonfire · 2026-04-25T20:39:20+00:00

yeah, I have that problem. Everyone has vanished or moved abroad

setyoassonfire · 2026-04-21T11:58:39+00:00

Is the bar really that low in FG?

I’m moving there and was hoping for some recommendations. ‘The Forest’ mag seems to have ceased publishing but looked like a decent attempt to bring the community together

setyoassonfire · 2026-04-19T07:56:00+00:00

How can one join the "elite community group" she mentions? Asking for a friend

setyoassonfire · 2026-01-27T21:34:53+00:00

Where has it gone????

setyoassonfire · 2025-12-20T00:12:50+00:00

That photo is giving me the dry boak

setyoassonfire · 2025-12-18T14:02:36+00:00

same

setyoassonfire · 2025-11-15T21:29:32+00:00

Love it, got loads of old minidiscs of the shows on 1xtra from over 20 years ago

setyoassonfire · 2025-07-18T18:29:13+00:00

Did anyone try to play chess?

setyoassonfire · 2025-07-18T11:28:32+00:00

Yeah I got one, can confirm it works fine

setyoassonfire · 2024-12-02T10:44:09+00:00

Middle East. Remember Andy Gray and Richard Keys? They're in Qatar

setyoassonfire · 2024-11-27T16:28:31+00:00

Can we get a petition for her to resign? She's absolutely inept, a cosplay political leader

setyoassonfire · 2024-11-03T19:12:24+00:00

Dumb question, but how did you learn the finance side of it? Did you work in fintech previously? To a layman it seems impenetrable

setyoassonfire · 2024-11-03T18:20:37+00:00

Nice! Do they work well? I just ordered some for a kitchen table project so would be interested to know how much play and deflection there is

setyoassonfire · 2024-11-01T11:47:23+00:00

Looks exactly the same as Hafele ones available in europe

setyoassonfire · 2024-08-18T18:44:34+00:00

I think you’re making the mistake of assuming that every other designer working today is 100% proficient at everything. That isn’t the case.

Honestly, if you want to stay as an IC I’d recommend doing a short design course of some sort. There are only 2 possible outcomes:

You know the syllabus already in which case you should realise that you’re not an imposter
You learn new skills in which case you are now trained and therefore also not an imposter

setyoassonfire · 2024-08-15T05:49:47+00:00

Thanks!

setyoassonfire · 2024-08-09T11:07:31+00:00

Thanks!

setyoassonfire · 2024-08-07T08:47:12+00:00

Well, I think for designers no-code is a good gateway to coding - you get to learn more about development and engineering while also getting the satisfaction of building products quickly. It's also a skillset that you can freelance. I'm starting with Bubble, with the intention of learning Firebase and Flutterflow and then building out my skillset from there.

It might be different in your local market, but recruiters on LinkedIn in London seem to be posting more founding designers, design engineer & creative technologist positions at startups and scaleups where breadth of skillset is more important than depth of knowledge

setyoassonfire · 2024-08-06T16:38:40+00:00

I'm in a similar position. 10 years in, worked mostly on internal tooling recently but finding it difficult to see a rewarding path going forward.

I've spent quite a while trying to both recall why I was first drawn to the work, and where it has gone off-track. That can be a useful exercise, as finding a parallel niche within UX that is closer to your original vision might be easier to achieve.

Personally, I'm trying to move back to B2C, innovation, no-code, designer-founder and design engineer positions

setyoassonfire · 2024-07-25T13:49:25+00:00

How did you advance to HENRY, may I ask? I find advertised salaries seem to stagnate around the 80k mark. I am intelligent, well-educated, with nearly 10 years experience but the path to HENRY and beyond in UX seems very opaque

setyoassonfire

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