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Interesting that the selection of branches includes Belgravia and Notting Hill Gate, two of the most expensive areas in the UK

The branch list does not include Camden Town where there are homeless people sleeping in the streets near HSBC.

The underlying issue here is that Covid has accelerated the transition to cashless digital first transactions that are controlled by private entities that have their own agenda.

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> Notting Hill Gate, two of the most expensive areas in the UK

That's not really how London works though: less than a mile north of Notting Hill Gate you start to hit some areas of serious poverty: https://jamestrimble.github.io/imdmaps/eimd2015/ is a good tool for exploring.

This is somewhat inaccurate; Maybe if it's updated to account for recent years

The masses of council estates around notting hill are probably poorer now than in 2015.

The cost of living of an area of London don't really correlate (in the way you're suggesting) to if homeless people can exist there.

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