A Waitrose or Fresh and Wild opens in your area.
Suddenly the name of your area becomes cutified by estate agents for example - Tooting becomes Tooting Village, and Mitcham becomes Mitcham Village etc., a sign that your area is all but gentrified is if the people living in the area actually think this is the real name of that area.
Couples with overpriced and aerodynamically ill-designed buggies are seen pushing their offspring around your local park.
Your local starts serving "organic" roasts on Sunday.
All the front doors are being painted shades of dove grey and sage green.
People spend as much time as is humanly possible at the organic cafe, outside, drinking and smoking.
Recycling bins are filled to the brim with wine bottles.
Churches are being converted into luxury flats.
Signs there is not gentrification in your area...
A new LIDL opens.
People in your area are excited about the new LIDL opening in your area.
You have as many betting shops as you do off licences as you do Bingo Halls and all of these outnumber the number of bookstores. It is a tricky caluculation but the higher the number of the first three the less gentrified you are.
People who obviously don't have children use baby pushchairs to carry home their shopping (from the LIDL).
The only additions people make to their homes are home-made sheds and shacks to house all of the plastic things they buy for their children to play with.
People spend as much time as is humanly possible in front of their house, preferably drinking and smoking.
Recycling bins are filled with lager and cider cans.
New Churches with names like "Centre of Strength and Power Church" or "Holy Jesus, Full of Christ the Worshipful" start appearing where convenience stores used to be.
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