To be annoyed about people who claim to live/be from London

[Happydogsaddog]

People who claim to live/be from London really get my back up. You don't have a London postcode, dialling code, hell it doesn't even say London in your address. AIBU or should I just ignore these people who try to boost their profile to the uninitiated?

[bruffin]

I still think of myself from London.
Was born in Haringey
Lived in Edmonton for from 3 - 21
moved to south london via a few months in Petts Wood
the 5 years Upper Norwood
5 years in Sydenham
am now in Hertfordshire, but within walking distance of London. I no longer have a London phone number or postcode but am as close to London as can be.

[SurreyDad]

Croydon, Sutton, Kingston, Harrow, Richmond, Romford, Bromley - they are all in London. you pay your council tax to a London Borough, you have red buses, you have the Metropolitan police. dialling codes and post codes don't match up to the boundaries - but most CR postcodes are London postcodes, as well as BR ones.

[SurreyDad]

And the Royal Mail doesn't use postal counties anymore - people just put Surrey / Kent / Middlesex on their envelopes for sentimental reasons.

[MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic]

Damn you bolding feature...

[shakey1500]

I so understand this! I moved from Wales to London as an adult and really wanted to be able to say I lived in London and knew that an outer postcode just wouldn't cut it with my mother who rang/accosted everyone she knew to coo "My daughter lives in LONDON now don't you know....preen preen".

Tis shallow and ridiculous I know, I guess it's because it's the capital. A buzzing, vibrant capital and I wanted to absolutely say I lived there.

[MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic]

Actually that's true isn't it? I never remember that, probably because I rarely dial phone numbers now - it's all already programmed into the phone. So I'm not (0208) 6* , I'm really (020) 86 * - I remember being (01) though...

[SurreyDad]

0208 is not a London telephone code. The telephone code for London is 020.

[Ormirian]

I always want to like London. It's looks so pretty when you see the Houses of P and the river etc and there are some wonderful things to see and visit . And for rural folks like me with straw for brains it has a certain cache. But as soon as I get there it seems noisy, and frantic and dirty and I hate having black snot. DH loves if for all those reasons. I tend to treat London in the same way as I do taking a swim off a Hebridean beach - short, sharp and painful but you're glad when you've done it

[midnightexpress]

You know, don't you, that nobody actually cares what your bloody dialling code is, unless they live within the M25? And even then. Or whether you come from Surbiton/Hackney/Kingston/Timbucbleedintoo.

Seriously, it. doesn't. matter.

[mummytime]

I live in Surrey, we get London news, of course when my kids school did something it was reported on South Today, which we don't get.
BTW I say I'm a Londoner, I was born in Hackney but actually grew up in Dagenham (a London borough but not London post code). My family though go back as Londoners about 4 generations (then like everyone they come from all over the world).

[JanMorrow]

give me a london girl every time, I've gotta find one I've made up my miiind.

I really enjoy living in London but is it terrible that we want to move from the east end (zone 2) out to the burbs before our kids get to school age?

[BagofHolly]

My mum (and entire hometown): English Regions

1. Lancashire
   
2. Yorkshire
   
3. London
   
4. Cornwall.
   
   Anything which falls outside of these categories is ignored.

[TrillianAstra]

Haven't read the whole thread but that someone would claim to be from London to boost their profile to the uninitiated

[echt]

Back when I was in "The Smoke", there was a momentary frisson about whether one had a 0207 (chic) phone number or 0208 (outer darkness).


Naturally, I was chic.

Innit.

[frillyflower]

Yeah the dentist thing is bad in London. No NHS for love or money where I am. Am forced to go expensive private route.

Upside is - have gorgeous teeth! Won't be risking my fabulous North London gnashers in a fist fight with a blardy suvvenah that's for sure.

[crazynanna]

Finallyspring Come over these ends mate,your teeth will be on the floor,black stumps and all
..oh,and we don't 'ave skools,we 'ave Borstals

[Tiredmumno1]

Haha no dentists neither, is that cos they been burgled by the south london riff raff

[cockneydad]

I'm from London and very pleased to have left to move up north !

[BitOfFun]

I am loving this discussion, even though I haven't got the faintest idea what you are all on about

[Finallyspring]

Shit teaching ? Do you think we have SCHOOLS in South London. Ha Ha Ha

You really are soft in North London aren't you

[Tiredmumno1]

I think its 'posse', shit teaching in the south eh

And i dont need me gang, i'm ard enough alone

[Finallyspring]

[Peachy]

Retiredgoth I have many carnival friends in Radstick and I understand LMAO (but then I am originally from Bridgwater so you have nothing on me.... ;) )


I care not a jiot if someone lives in london and what their postcode is though

[crazynanna]

Finallyspring Possee?? Pah!

You obviously mean your 'firm'

[MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic]

Bits are posh (or think they are ) bits are rough. But that's London all over really. Dulwich is next door to Peckham (south), Crouch End (vaguely posh, people like Simon Pegg live there) is in Haringey (north).

Where I live I can go up the hill to Crystal Palace (which used to be rough, but is now very up and coming) or down to West Norwood (struggling)

North Londoners think they're posh though, whereas South Londoners don't care that they're not

*disclaimer: please don't take any of this deadly seriously, because I'm pretty sure no Londoners actually do!