I was once again out on my daily trundle earlier, today just along the Thames east of Woolwich. As often happens these days, I was amazed to see the amount of redevelopment going on in that area: I head that way fairly often, but even so I was astonished to see the number of swanky new blocks of flats which seem to have shot up between Woolwich and Abbey Wood. Obviously it’s happening in that area because of the new Elisabeth Line stations, but such overt, hyper-gentrification is happening all over London. However, the obvious resulting question which struck me is: are we seeing the same thing happening outside of London? Is the whole UK being similarly gentrified, or just the capital? I don’t get out of the metropolis that much, so I’m genuinely curious. Please fill me in if you can.