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?

I live in essex, and whenever I go anywhere ever people say 'oh, you're obviously from london'(- broad estuary accent) When I say no I get 'mockney' thrown at me. Grr.

I don't think saying you live 'in london' clarifies anything. It's such a massive varied area, it makes much more sense to me to just say tottenham or leyton or whatever. But then I work in transport and know london well.

I love living here though. I can get into town in 20 minutes and used to see a proper (signed) live band every week when I was a teenager. There aren't many other places in the country where you can do that.

I'm from Essex, and took to telling people I was from London when I was at university. The Essex girl jokes bored the tits off me.

I live in Barnet and i call it London but some people dont.

Isn't everything in M25 'london'?

Well for us people who live in London it's important to distinguish north south east or west because it is a huge city and if you just say 'London' it's not very helpful to people wondering whereabouts you live.

Alternatively you might say Camden, Islington, Wood Green ...

Also people who live north of the river like to distinguish themselves from the poor souls citizens who live south.

It's a London thing ...

But its all "down South" so who cares?

I live in London (Waltham Forest) and it is not something I'd boast about.

I feel your pain! I'm from Walthamstow. So glad I moved! Chingford Hall has always been awful, my mum grew up there...

I do miss the convenience of London though, Camden and London Bridge mainly. And the Underground. I used to go on many a jaunt when I was a teenager, had some fabulous times and I have some great memories.

Thanks kewcumber for clearing up the mystery of where Brentford is.

All I knew about it was it was very famous in the '70s for its excellent nylon sheets

retiredgoth2 - PILs live in Midsomer Norton. I get you ...

I love Essex. Chigwell is great.

You can see Brentford from Kew gardens... they just don;t call it that when you are doing to Kew Explorer train!

and I'm sure that there are still some excellent nylon sheets there - just not famous ones.

bullet I used to work in Walthamstow.There are no tubes . There's Blackhorse Road and Walthamstow Central but they're nowhere near the bit I worked in - Forest Road.

I'm getting confused about Chingford Hall. I must be mixing it up with the Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge. Is it not a leafy, Tudor idyll, then?

Just who ARE these people who don't live in London ? I never meet any of them because I never leave London don't think they exist

And another thing. North of the river isn't proper London at all. It's full of people who've moved there as adults and then move out again when they have children of secondary school age or they can't take it any more get older and go to 'the countri' or some other provincial place they came from.

South is the only place to be in London, and I'm not even talking about South West ( which is another version of not proper London) but South East.

That's all there is to say on the matter really.

5foot5 - quite! And everything else is all up north so who cares.

I remember an episode of the Sweeney whose plot hinged on a misunderstanding over a blag going down in SuNbury or SuDbury. Are they anywhere near Brentford

Limited- Blackhorse Rd station is opposite Forest Rd, you must've worked up the end near the Town Hall I presume? That would be quite a walk!

Finallyspring - yes, yes. I am originally from the deepest countryside and of course I shall go back there when I can no longer struggle about the city (and want to sit in a bungalow on the edge of some god forsaken village staring at a ploughed field and waiting for my velcro shoes to arrive from an advert in the back of the Telegraph).

Hooray for the fake north Londoners!

If I could have North London on my passport, I would

FinallySpring - I've was born in North London as were most of my mates. I've only lived in a 2 mile radius and no plans to leave. It does happen

ok verytellytubby step outside. That's inflammatory talk

bullet my office was in Fulbourne Road/Wood Street. I had to look it up.

I don't know how I forgot. I loved my time there so much, especially when the company wanted to charge us to park in its car park along with all the other people stranded in this strange no-man's land bit of NE London.

We used to go to a pub called the Nag's Head (I think) in what the estate agents optimistically called Walthamstow Village. I remember that being quite nice.

The Village is rather nice. The nicest bit of Walthamstow is near Snaresbrook IMO. Very quiet, lots of woodland and lovely big houses...something I could never have afforded

Awomancalledhorse what I found most annoying was that on the news if something happened in the w9 or w10 area (I'm thinking of a terror suspect raid on a house in H Road) ... They would say NORTH LONDON! It is wrong wrong wrong a W postcode is WEST london!

I'm confused about people saying that Middlesex doesn't exist. My sister lived there for many years and had to put that on her address. What is it meant to be then?
I live in Langley which is (in my mind) a better part of Slough. That's what I tell people. I am originally from Scotland though and I tell them up there that I live near London. Sounds better than Slough...which isn't where I live, it's Langley.