Start at the Angel tube and walk north-ish around Barnsbury, where Tony Blair used to live, or along Upper Street to Highbury Field. Check out Lonsdale Square off Liverpool Road and Canonbury Square to the east of Upper Street. Beautiful and very real residential London - not too rough and not too polished.
N1, N7, N5
Angel tube station is on the Northern line. Highbury and Islington tube station is on the Victoria line.
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