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.

What a wierd thing to get annoyed about. Presumably because people claiming to live in London when they don't is undermining the exclusivity of the 'living in London club' that only you and eleventy billion other people belong to.

Stratford is a district in the London Borough of Newham, in East London, England.

Stratford it most definitely London

I grew up in Dagenham (zone 5) and I call that east London not Essex. Though I wrote my address as Essex because I was aught it by people who grew up with Dagenham in Essex.

Central London is the little bit in the middle that few people can call home but loads of people can say they live in London.

I note that the OP appears to be new.

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

Anyone else find threads that issue blunt orders in the first line a little off-putting?

I'm afraid I snippily replied 'Bromley in Kent?'

Is there another Bromley apart from the one in the London Borough of Bromley then?

The real "London" is zone 1, zone 2 at a stretch.
if you want to be pedantic, London is the name of the City of London, with a total population of 8000.

I think saying zone 4 does have meaning. It just describes the distance from the middle. I don't think anyone thinks it means anything else do they?

I grew up in Chiswick and always laugh when people expect it to be a sprawling metropolis. My friends were going to rent their flat in Ealing to tourists but they kept asking if you could walk to Piccadilly. Umm well you could technically...

I still think Chiswick is London tho.

they now refer to hornchurch as east london when its essex

just because they want to raise taxes and make it a made up borough of london doesnt make it london

When talking about places in Essex I divide it into London Essex and Essex Essex!

Cities expand though, don't they? The area I live in was once very definitely not in Manchester and now very definitely is.

Barnes is supposedly Surry too yet is right on the border of Hammersmith, the river and a bridge separate them. It takes me less than five minutes to drive there and I live in zone 2. Stratford is most definitely London.

soup the London borough thing is my favourite

Everything within the M25 is London.

Has anyone else noticed how drivers get more aggressive the closer to London you get?

I physically breathe a sigh of relief once past Reading on the M4 heading west as it seems drivers just become far more courteous!

soup if u adress a letter to someone in bromley its kent not london

FFS OP - how can Stratford not be London when it is in the London Borough of Newham?

soupdragon - yep, there is the delightful shithole of Bromley-by-bow*, which is near bow (surprisingly!). I had a flatmate from Bromley, and I told her I had seen her home on the tube map. she was unimpressed, in a reverse to the PP's acquaintances.

(well, it was a shithole when I lived there as a student and even the muggers went around in pairs; it may have improved now)

I grew up in LB Bromley then spent spent quite a few years on the south Kent coast. Back in the day when BBC regional news covered both London and Kent together it was fine when I lived in LB Bromley but they might as well have been talking about Scotland for all the relevance it had to me when I lived on the coast!

I am a foreigner by London standards, one of those people who exist north of the Watford Gap and way further north in a strange land called "Scotland". My visits to London are infrequent. Not a huge fan of the place, tbh.

Anyway. I class "London" as anything within the M25, irrespective of postcode and county. Saying that the place which hosted the London Olympics isn't actually in London sounds totally bonkers to me. I do not know the ins and outs of London bus routes or tube maps (and don't really care either). "Central London" I would class as anything between Earls Court in the west, the Tower of London, Regent's Park and the Oval. This may not be the accepted definition but makes sense to me.

soup if u adress a letter to someone in bromley its kent not london

Only if you address it incorrectly.

The correct address would be in the form

99 London Road,
Bromley,
BR9 9XX

Is this really worth spending time on? It's not unlike saying that Watford is in the north, or even that Sheffield is north without actually needing to know or to travel there.
It's probably of no interest generally, just "semantics", but if you got a train to Liverpool, expecting to be in "The North" and near your friend in Newcastle - you'd find that extra 180ish miles a bit of a problem. Ultimately, in the general run of things, it's just not worth the effort.

Is there another Bromley apart from the one in the London Borough of Bromley then?

Yes, Bromley-by-Bow was originally just Bromley, until LU renamed the underground station to BbB in the 60s. My Nan was from nearby and refused to acknowledge the name change.

I think of Stratford as London because it's easy and quick to get there on the Overground!

But Croydon etc –NOT London. Although my friend who lives in that area is adamant that she lives in London, not Croydon, and TBF her postcode does back that up.

So I used to live in zone two with a N postcode and now live in zone 4 still with a N post code, do I not live in London anymore then OP?

I border an EN postcode which I still consider to be London, even though the outer EN areas are very country like

Who cares?