In economic terms, it’s a real mixed bag. The wealthy business community including the docklands site & part of the olympic site, canary wharf.
It also boasts the largest McDonalds in the world, if there’s anything worth boasting about.
On the flip side, the east end has a large unemployment rate & crime continues to soar in many deprived areas, but hey…they’re jolly cockney types so…

Have you seen this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_Hamlets