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?

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?

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).

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.

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

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

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...

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.

Damn you bolding feature...

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

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.

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.