The Notting Hill of the 1990s was still socially heterodox and shabby chic, a neighborhood where a group of 30-something professionals could plausibly have ended up.
Even in the late 1990s, such access to disposable income marked the characters in “Notting Hill” out as privileged.
Yet, in the 1990s, Notting Hill, long a center of Caribbean immigrant culture and the site of the annual Notting Hill Carnival, underwent a rapid process of gentrification.
Between 1995 and 1999, Notting Hill house prices rose by 75%.
The colorful terraced houses of Notting Hill, which these days sell for millions of pounds.
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Locations:
American, London, West London, Notting, West, Britain, United States, Young, Notting Hill, Central London, San Francisco, Manhattan, San Matteo, Redwood City, York