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?

If you were an Ancient Roman Limited you would take that as an omen.

Ive always said london.

When i lived in EN1 , N9, WC1, SE14, E7 and now even SG12- ive still always said London.

I usually skip the one south of the river because, ewww. Worst home i ever had.

frilly

I noticed that the quality of pigeon varies across London. At one stage, I was living in Hackney, and the pigeons there were all greasy and missing minimum a couple of toes, but more normally a leg. You get to around Baker street, or a swankier area of London - they're fat, glossy, have all their appendages. Clearing pigeons out of Trafalgar Square must have created a MASSIVE pigeon refugee crisis. Did anyone care? I don't think so.

(actually, I really really hate pigeons. Particularly because they eat chicken all the time which is WRONG, but not nearly as wrong as the ducks I saw in Regents Park trying to get food from two women eating hoisin duck wraps. DON'T DO IT DUCKS)

we don;t have pigeons here - we have pheasants

Seriosly we do! They escape from The Gardens...

There's a pelican in St James's Park that grabs unwary pigeons. I've never seen it but after I heard that I wouldn't let a small child get too close.

frilly and lady my pigeon/gull experience is a sign that Westminster needs to crack down hard on KFC and other establishments that lower the tone.

No I think it's a sign that although you may be torn by a desire to leave the Big Metropolis you must never do so.

You should have taken those entrails to a soothsayer.

I am live in London, with a london postcode. I was born here but didn't always live here during my childhood. I didn't realise it was something to boast about. So just giving a shout out to everyone. I'm off to make post cards for tourists too.

much love Elphabulous
from a sunny-crime-ridden-outer-london-borough

That should have read...

I live in London, with a london postcode. I was born here but didn't always live here during my childhood. I didn't realise it was something to boast about. So just giving a shout out to everyone. I'm off to make post cards for tourists too.

much love Elphabulous
from a sunny-crime-ridden-outer-london-borough

Sorry my education isn't all that wonderful because the schools here aren't that great either.

I live in London. Have a London postcode was born here and have lived here my entire life but am temporary out of the country. It's not the greatest place to live IMO but it's my home.. OP how does my profile get boosted by being from Landannnnnnnnnnnnn?!! I wanna be popularrrrrrrrrrrrrr lol

I live 75 miles from London but tell foreigners that's where I'm from to avoid explanations that would bore them and me.

Hey, limited: that pelican's . Complete with a pop-up ad from PlentyOfFish so you can pick up men who like pelicans.

I was born in edgware, does that make me a londoner

Some say north London is best; others say south.

But which one is better ?

There's only one way to find out.

Come and have a go if you think you're hard enough North Londoners
(they won't though because they're abunch of FAKE Londoners)

I always say I'm from London. But that's because I live abroad and people always ask me where in England I come from and then look at me completely vacant like when I say Reading. They only appear to know 2 places in Britain, London and Liverpool. They've heard of Scotland, but don't know where it is and they think I made up the place called Wales.

As a person in her 20's who knows a lot of young people from outside of London, there does seem to be this edge that is applied to anyone who is apparently 'lucky' enough to come from or live long term in London.

At uni so many outside of Londoners loved impressing their friends by having them come to visit and then boasting to them in this wierd subverted snobby way about how edgy and rough London is.

Its as if living in London gives you this weird street cred and makes you an immediate person of the world IYSWIM.

I personally love it here and do think that there is some truth to these ideas because of the nature of London but I get where the OP is coming from, it is just stupid to pretend you are from London when you are not.

I spend most of my working life with non British people. It's true about Wales. It annoys me, and I'm not even Welsh. It's a whole country with its own language FFS sake, how can you not know where/what it is ?

right tiredmumno1 step outside

South London just confuses me with all its sprawlyness, I just ignore it all and as far as I'm concerned you're in London until you hit the green bit just before the M25. So, Croydon/Sutton/Addiscombe; London borders. Keston, Biggin Hill, Orpington; Countryside (aka Not London)
Otherwise I have to look at the fact that I can walk 5 minutes in that direction, and halfway across the road I'm suddenly Not In London.

It's too weird to think technically I shop, the DCs attend school and I commute out of London.

Oh and there's nothing wrong with having an 0208 prefix

Is South Croydon london then?

I have a London postcode (I think - N14), but wish to hell I didn't.
I don't like living in London and I don't come from here, its just where DH wants to be for his work at the moment.

Croydon confuses me. It's like hermaphrodites or jeggings. Neither one thing or the other.

ivertheengine8 EXACTLY I rest my case. North Londonders are just passing through. They're not real Londoners, just having an amusing/convenient few years in London before they settle down in the country or the provinces

I consider it to be Very edges though.