My area is very much a dichotomy of interests. Originally a series of small villages, many of them predating the Doomsday Book, and remained largely unaltered until the 1900's.
These days, large estates blur the boundaries. The nearby city is a ghetto, yet blink, and you will miss it. The villages easily outsize it.
There are areas of high unemployment and low education, neighbouring old money and grandeur, along with ostentatious wealth and vulgarity of modern show homes and exclusive schools.
Within maybe 30 minutes walk, I could be in grim surroundings, a seaside splendour, acres of fantastic farmland, or the snooty strongholds of suburbia.
At the moment, we are seeing vast investment into my neighbourhood, land is being redeveloped at an astonishing rate.