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?

limitedperiodonly- My nan lived off Fulbourne road! I used to live in 'Walthamstow village' when I was a kid. DUMP. I used to have to walk through that grave yard to get to school!

I now live in Highams Park, which is marginally better, I think. Chingford Hall estate is practically at the end of my road though. It is bloody scary there. 2 boys I went to school with have been killed on that estate. Awful. 10 minutes in the other direction is Broadmead estate, other direction Yardley lane estate. I don't venture over the other side of the billet roundabout these days!

I am right by the station, so I'm only a 20 minute train journey to liverpool street and then I can get ANYWHERE!!!!!

IIRC Middlesex used to be a county but isn't anymore as it was incorporated into Greater London. Could be wrong though.

Sorry DogsBestFriend but I can't help what I feel and I feel I am a Londoner . I am not claiming I am from London, though...

I think London can also be a estate of mind...

Happy2bhomely- Did you go to Holy Family?

Bullet-No I did not! I went to 'Green school' Walthamstow girls. Well I did until yr 9 then I moved to Woodford Green so I went to Highams Park.

My mum went to 'The Green School' as it was known then. Used to be a fantastic school...not so much anymore. I went to Kelmscott

To be fair, Walthamstow Girls is supposed to be the best school in the borough(not that that means much!) according to league tables etc. Highams Park is top for 'mixed', which is why we're staying put for now because we are in the catchment for it and DS starts next yr. We are saving, saving, saving so that one day we can get away from here.

nearly everywhere mentioned is in that there London to me like, it depends where you are, surely?

I'm in Edinburgh, so it's all London

I hope you manage it Happy2bhomely, best thing I ever did was move. My mum, dad and little brother still live there and they really want to move as well.

happy The Broadmead Estate had quite a challenging reputation when I worked near there and this was about 25 years ago.

It was thoughtful of Barratt to build an estate of young professionals' starter homes just across the road so the junkies wouldn't have to commute too far when they went burgling.

If you live outside the M25, you don't live in London, simple as.

Yeah. :)

You know what really gets my goat about Londoners - is when they say they live in a village - No you effing don't you live in a great sprawling metropolis - get over it.

And breathe

I live in London when I talk to people who don't like in the UK, I live in Wimbledon when I talk to people who live in the UK but not in London, I live in Raynes Park when I talk to people who live in London. I live just off ..... .....when I talk to people who live in Raynes Park.

My post code is Surrey but the house opposite is SW20.

I pay a London borough council tax.

I belong to the Sutton NCT branch but went to ante-natal classes in Wimbledon.

I get both the London and Surrey phone books.

I get an inner city living allowance.

Hmmn...

limitedperiodonly- Haha 'challenging' is not the word I would use for it! 'Hell hole' is better suited I think. I'm sure there are some decent families living there(maybe) but it has an awful reputation. (I say this as a 'decent' family living on a council estate, so I hope I'm not offending anyone) It must be awful living there.

I think London is basically a large cluster of villages. Each area has its own character and it can take a while to find the one that suits you and that you can afford. Once you do it really is, IME and that of a lot of my friends', like village life in that you very quickly become a regular in shops and cafes, you see the same people around all the time and get to know them etc. I think it's evolved like that because otherwise it would just be a 'sprawling metropolis' where no one felt at home.

Does South Harrow count?

Samsgoldilocks You've reminded me of that jerk Robert Elms who used to do a wanky slot on his piss-poor radio show about the villages of London.

He'd announce an area and then get people to phone in with anecdotes about it. Whenever someone mentioned somewhere he'd butt in with: 'Oh yeah, yeah mate. I know it. Top caff' in his professional Norf Lunden accent which is miraculously untainted by years of mixing with people from all over the place in the media.

Then he'd laugh like Mutley 'yukyukyuk'. I always hoped it was the sound of him choking to death on an organic blueberry muffin but I was constantly disappointed.

I wonder if he still does that show somewhere. I might ring up and invent a greasy spoon playing cool jazz somewhere edgy like Hoxton and then say: 'You couldn't have been there because it exists only in my head, you utter tool.'

As you were.

I tend to tell people I am from London. Not because I feel that makes me superior, why would it? Purely as a simple end to unwanted small talk. If it is an American asking me whereabouts in the UK I am from then it is easier than trying to explain the location of the small village I last lived in back home, and if it is a Brit asking, they always look puzzled if I say 'Sunderland' because I have a southern accent. Besides which, I was born in London and lived there for 12 years. Really though, how can it be annoying to be told someone comes from London?

well if they brag just say. "we have all got our cross to bare."

it is very simple - are you able to vote for the Mayor of London. If yes then you live in london. I postally live in kent, but pay my council tax to a London Borough. It is the difference between London and Greater London. I would like to add that my dad always said "if anyone asks you live in Kent" he believed people didnt like Londoners - and he was born in Paddington.

We used to get London telly when we lived in N Essex and it never even mentioned us. V annoying.

I was born in London, in a London Borough (Woolwich) with a London post code and still some people say I wasn't born in London.

The edges are blurred but I reckon if you live within the M25 you could be justified calling yourself London if you wanted but really what is so great in living in somewhere like Woolwich? Maybe that is the point - if you conveniently forget you live in Woolwich to say you live in the much more prestigious London. Seems daft though.

My Dad was born and brought up in Pimlico and you don't get much more central than that but it was very run down - everything was Council owned back then and I don't think it is something to boast about.

Just as an aside to the person who had a friend who reckoned Slough was London, my Dad actually got evacuted to Slough in the war because it wasn't London. If there are any green fields (unless it is a park) between you and London, you aren't in London imo.

I always offended someone when I lived in Bromley by saying I lived in either London or Kent. Bromley is a borough of Greater London but everyone put Bromley, Kent as their address. Once a Beefeater at the Tower of London told me "It's not in London, it's in Kent".

I grew up in Stockport. It's in Greater Manchester but people write "Stockport, Cheshire" as their address.

Whatevs.

Fortunately now I live definatively in deepest Kent and no-one can argue with that.

Limited - Robert Elms is a Giant Tool it's true.

Verytellytubby, if I could have South London on my passport, I would. :o

But it doesn't matter.... for I have it written in my heart. :)