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.

I would agree about Croydon and Bromley but Stratford is definitely London!

I live on the border of Surrey and greater London, it becomes the borough of Sutton at the end of my road. All the people who live at the end vote in the mayoral elections, get bus passes etc. They are in London. That said houses are worth 20k more my side as we are in Surrey!

They are not however in central London, which is what you are thinking of.

Now when I go on holiday (say to the us) and people ask me where I am from I say south London, because it's the easiest way for them to understand where I am. They have heard of it as opposed to Stoneleigh (actual place) or Epsom or Sutton. Why spend ages answering a question that clearly they don't want a huge conversation about it. I am not lying merely answering a question. If I am speaking to someone who clearly is familiar with the area I would say Epsom

Wizardoftoss - obviously ruffled your feathers. Very odd. I don't need to get out more - very odd assumption to make based on a few posts on an Internet forum.

Ooooo! Fun thread!

If you have a London postcode: W, SW, SE, NE, N, NW, E then you're in London.

If you're in a London borough but not a London postcode, you're in Greater London and probably go in to central London once a year to see the Christmas Lights on Oxford Street like my cousins who live in Hounslow who say they live in London but never actually go in to London (not even for work!)

I often wonder what the point of living in Zones 4+ actually brings? Surely you'd be better off living in the Home Counties or even further, with cheaper housing?

The stratford thing is just bizarre that's all! It's not in the same league as Bromley/Croydon etc. in terms of being far away. On the tube it's about 10-15 minutes from Holborn and the city. Saying it's in the sticks is like saying Kilburn is or something like that. Only somebody born and raised in Leicester Square could ever think such a thing!

I grew up in Bromley - it is NOT London. It is Kent. It is technically a london borough but our address was also Kent ... even baffling to those who live there.

tiny you wonder what the point is? The point of living anywhere is because it's your home, where your family/friends are, it's convenient etc

People don't live in any area at any cost. The people who live in zone 4, using your example, do so because they like it and it's where they want to live. If they'd wanted to move to the Home Counties they would do, though it would be a completely difference experience and lifestyle.

And whilst living in Greater London, I do indeed as do many, travel to central London. 26 minutes door to door.

I find it bizarre that Stratford could be described as 'in the sticks.' Compared to what?! Depends entirely where you yourself live, surely?!

If you live in Aldgate, then Kensington probably seems 'out in the sticks'. If you live in Borough, then Baker Street might seem 'out in the sticks.' They're not though. They're just far away from each other, because London is pretty big, being a major capital city and everything.

Magicpaintbrush - Bromley is part of London. The London government act 1963 transferred it there from Kent, they just didn't update the postcodes.

Still laughing about Z3 Stratford, home to West Ham foootball club being described as being out in the sticks!!

Z2 Stratford even!

Stratford is definitely London & what a fine jubilee party we had their too. In 1977....

Manor Park & Wansted are still East London & kind of where it ends as Ilford is definitely in Essex. It's all about the postcode.

Barnet is an anomaly. Has an Enfield postcode (Middx), outer London telephone number, is in the London Borough of Barnet, yet is in Hertfordshire

Get the fuck over yourself, who cares!

I live in Bromley and if asked where I live I'll generally give the answer London as it IS a London Borough and it's recognisable to most. To people actually in London e.g. people I meet at/through work I'll probably be more specific and say out towards Kent.

The pp who said 'oh you mean Kent' to people you met on holiday - what a cuntish response. I'll bet they gave you a wide berth after that, seriously why did it bother enough that you had to assert how much 'more' London you are than them? Not hard to see who's the pretentious one in that situation.

Stratford in the sticks? Give over, it's less than 20 minutes into central London from there

If you have a London postcode you're in London. End of story.

Stratford IS in London. Hasn't been Essex for decades. It's not Essex until Barking.

tubeworker

Well said purplemunkey My thoughts of what I'd think of someone who said that, would sound very similar to Kent

I had an ex boyfriend whose neighbour was the most cockney londoner you've ever met. Upon meeting him i asked where in London he was from (being one myself)

Welwyn Garden City

It still makes me laugh now.

Posted too soon there.
He would go on and on about how he was a londoner local and about london taaaaan.

I think you mean Hertfordshire

I often wonder what the point of living in Zones 4+ actually brings?

What a bizarre thing to say. What "point" is there of living anywhere?

Stratford isn't Essex. Do you mean Ilford? Romford?

If you were invited to vote in the London mayoral elections last year then you live in London.

Every city has central areas and outer areas. I suppose the only exception might be the actual City Of London. I live in Surrey and am a Londoner. Cannot for the life of me see why that bothers anyone or matters one iota.

Excuse the ignorant, hick from the real sticks, non Londoner question, but this Zone talk, is this all about how much your TfL season ticket costs, or is there any other point to it at all?