Tupu, that was my point: there is a (to my mind very small) play on the word ‘exclusive’. In the phrase ‘exclusive neighbourhood’ the first thought is the sense in which only certain people are welcome there, for social reasons and so on. However, especially given that it was obviously meant to be a cryptic definition, it was in my mind only a tiny shift to think of exclusive in the meaning used in the solution. That, coupled with the letter count, as someone else pointed out, made it far too straightforward in my opinion. My feeling on writing it in was a disappointed ‘Oh, is that it?’ rather than a delighted ‘Ah! That’s it!’

Nothing wrong with the clue in terms of ‘correctness’ from my point of view – just rather pedestrian and obvious without even really having to think about it.

I take your point though I think
‘unsatisfying’ rather than ‘unsatisfactory’ might be a better adjective.
It is interesting that you and other critics seem to have different quarrels with the clue e.g. too vague and difficult, too easy, inaccurate etc. Few seem to get the idea of exclusive as ‘smart’ in addition to ‘excluding’.
I do agree it is not the most spectacular cd of the sort that Rufus can achieve at his best.

Point taken but as I suggested, exclusive also has the meaning of ‘smart’ and being specially for those of sophisticated tastes and/or lots of money.
In that sense, e.g. a posh suburb, I think one would not talk of a no-go area.

NB Mystogore @1 seems to have a rather different objection to yours – for him the word is unsuitable, if I understand him rightly, rather than too obvious.

What about Chrome Plating?

I had heard of chrome yellow but where is the plate in 22a?

I thought 27a was weak: a fisherman is an angler with ‘R’ on the end. There was nothing in the clue to say ‘remove the r’.

I did like ARMRESTS.