London

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This is about London so no comments on how crap and expensive it is from non Londoners.

Aibu to get annoyed when people describe places that aren't London as London?
Sidcup and Bromley are in Kent!
Croydon is in Surrey!
Stratford is Essex!

Living in these areas is suburban. It's not living in London is very different it's suburban living.

Yes the tube map is huge just because it's on the tube doesn't make it London the metropolitan line goes to something like zone 6 I think it's further away than Brighton is the other way.

Love you, Bromley. (Though it is easier to do so from the other side of the country)

I'm very much in London (lucky me) in nw6 and Luton is a great airport for us - no problem to get to - unlike London Gatwick which is a bloody joke!

Barking and Dagenham are in London. As is Upminster, Romford & Hornchurch.

Lille is very close to Belgium but it's still France

@38cody I find it so annoying that gatwick flights are sometimes £100+ less that Heathrow or city airport and the train back to London Bridge from gatwick is horrible after a flight and often packed. Do you drive to Luton?

I live v near to Sidcup, I always say we live in Kent because you know, Sidcup IS in Kent. I agree, annoys me when people say it's London

Sidcup is not in kent it is in the London Borough of Bexley ffs.

I wonder if the housing crisis ever sorts itself out and people can afford to live where they want to - no not just London zone 1 but other areas - and people can pick and choose if they want to live in a central location or buy a decent sized house in the suburbs that they will stop kidding themselves about where they live.

Very hyacinth bucket. I know someone who lives in Finsbury Park but can't bring themselves to just say Finsbury Park it's "Finsbury Park but actually Islington".

Sorry haven't read the whole thread. Can't get over the fact that Stratford is in Essex 😂😂😂 Think you lost your own argument right there OP and instead of debating any further should get yourself a map.

"Very hyacinth bucket" - like you then? "Friend" hey?

Kissing I was also born and have lived in various parts of SE London. I've never really cared about how 'London' somewhere is.

Train zoning is not a reliable gauge of closeness anyway - Isleworth, Abbey Wood and Angel Road are all zone 4 but are 10, 14 and 19 miles from Trafalgar Square yes I just used google maps to find that out.

However, the best part of this thread is still Stratford being described as in the sticks

I am flying from London Southend later this year.

It's the same length of train out of Liverpool Street as Stansted.

I measure London-ness in journey time and hassle, not in miles.

Tea cake yes

Middlesex itself has been around since the Middle Ages and she is not going to listen to a bunch of men in bad suits trying to tell her otherwise

I think I know that person.

When they do the Boat Race, the two sides of the river are Surrey and Middlesex.

I have checked whether I would have lived in Surrey or Kent so I know which cricket team to support.

Going by what council you live in isn't kidding yourself as to where your live it's just common sense

And the airports have London so people use it to fly into it to visit the city so there

Putting to what do you have against the suburbs? The point is the outside bits of London are the suburbs, they are still London. All cities have suburbs

Just a thought OP, but do you mean Stratford Upon Avon? Because if so, you're dead right, it's waaaaay outside London.

(I've never been, I hear it's lovely, it's on my list of places to visit up and down the country)

Of course Stratford is in Essex. Remember the 2012 Essex Olympics in Stratford? Mo, Jess, fake tan. Magical times.

Stratford isn't in Essex. It's all to do with the London boroughs and borders. Most of the places you mention are more like London than they are suburban Kent or Surrey

Teacake
I'm aware of who I pay my council tax to thanks

It may well be the borough of Bexley but my address says KENT, not London. I really don't class sidcup as London, I didn't think that people did tbh

And I'm not snobby at all and no preference over Kent or London so not being precious

Ok Stratford isn't Essex it isn't London either.

Thanks for the laugh! Isn't London?

OP I too grew up on pie and mash. I lived in Sidcup. I don't understand why this is even a debate. As pp have explained there are many boroughs that make up Greater London and some have maintained a county post code. In a city that is one of the most diverse in the world I hardly think there is a single definition of a "proper Londoner" that would be meaningful. Celebrate the differences!

Incidentally, if asked by someone who didn't know the area geographically, I would say I grew up in North Kent, on the borders of South London but someone saying London would not make me angry.

Obviously 'London' means different things depending on whether you are talking about Greater London/London post codes or the city of London.

However, let's face it, when people complain about that London, they mean anyone from greater London and possibly Luton too.

Aren't there enough people bashing London already, I think its a big enough city for everyone

'Finsbury park but actually Islington'.

Depending on which part of Finsbury Park your friend lives in she could live in the borough of Islington, Haringey or Hackney. Isn't that was she's referring to (as opposed to trying to claim that Finsbury Park is just opposite the Angel or something)