To be annoyed by people who claim they live in a different area due to snobbery reasons?

[Rosehip10]

Why do people do this? Are they so insecure they have to pretend they are somewhere else?

I know much of this rubbish comes from estate agents, but some people seem to take it to heart......

Two classic examples from people I know.....

1.) "I live in North West Hampstead" (They live in Cricklewood)

2.) "I'm on Farnham Borders" (They live in Aldershot)

Ridiculous.

But as old as time.

I’ve lived close to both the places and find it really funny. The last I saw was ‘North Maida Vale’ for the bottom of end of Kilburn High Road.

*these places

I was in Kilburn a few times when I had a lovely boyfriend in my 20s who lived there. It looked the same as Maida Vale. Same type of houses.

Blackheath also seems to have strange borders when estate agents are involved.

I’ve got reverse. Live in a village considered snobby by the local small town. So if anyone asks , always say live in the small town 😁

I think the estate agents are partially to blame for this!!

Yup. I live in a bit of New Cross that 5,000 people have decided is its own separate enclave.

@EssentialHummus "Telegraph Hill"?

That’s the one! There’s a whole other thing about the various local conservation areas but I haven’t had enough to drink yet to get into it.

@Snowy0w1

I was in Kilburn a few times when I had a lovely boyfriend in my 20s who lived there. It looked the same as Maida Vale. Same type of houses.

Blimey

I have never seen any street in Kilburn that looks remotely like Maida Vale!

Yes, OP, a whole area near mum was renamed for estate agents purposes I guess. It’s annoying because you think it’s walkable but it’s not!

Haha, this made me laugh @EssentialHummus! We live around here too and I always enjoy the 'Are you from the Hill' type comments

I find it funny that friends now live in Peckham when it used to be Dulwich. (It's always been Peckham)

@Bear65

Haha, this made me laugh *@EssentialHummus*! We live around here too and I always enjoy the 'Are you from the Hill' type comments

I blame the farmers market. It should be banned.

Maybe because people can be so rude about places, even when they’ve never been to them and know nothing about them. It happens to us all the time.

How big is Notting Hill - everyone in west London seems to live there!

@Rosehip10

Blackheath also seems to have strange borders when estate agents are involved.

SE3 is a large postcode area though. I live on KPR and as our political ward is "Blackheath Wetscombe" I've always said that we live in Blackheath, but not in the village IYSWIM.

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcoln Yep, but for estate agents and some people "Blackheath" is used to make people assume the village area!

I live in the most north-west part of Whitechapel. Hence I say I live in Whitechapel.

However, estate agents (and pretentious people) insist it's Shoreditch. Some call it Spitalfields. It's not. Or Brick Lane. It's also not. At which point I usually snigger and I say I live in "Whitechapel village".

Meh. It's low on the scale of things that annoy me. Mildly amusing on occasion. And definitely fueled by estate agents.

@IcyApril

I’ve lived close to both the places and find it really funny. The last I saw was ‘North Maida Vale’ for the bottom of end of Kilburn High Road.

Whenever I call builders for a quote I tell them I live in Kilburn whereas I'm actually at the posh end in Queens Park

Been going on for years... I always say I live where I do (it’s a pretty typical central London location million pounds plus flats next to ex- local authority ones) which led to one of my colleagues (who is pretty blunt) coming round and exclaiming.

“Wow, it’s actually quite nice in here I thought it would be a shit hole...”

I changed where I lived based on who I was talking to and the impression I wanted to give.

"I live in Dulwich" - I am a proper adult living in a calm family area.
"I live in Crystal Palace" - I am a young person in a flatshare
"I live in the weird bit that's not really Dulwich, CP, or even Gipsy Hill" - the truth.

My area is terrible for this. The main town is a permanent fixture in the top 5 worst place to live, but surrounded by several naice villages. Nobody will admit to being associated with crap town. We recently moved to justtt over the invisible border (literally the other side of a mini roundabout from naice village) to upgrade our house massively and DPs mum said "lovely house but it's just such a shame where it is) nutter.

I grew up on S London. People used to talk about "St Reatham" and "St Ockwell" (Streatham and Stockwell) - do they still do that. DM used to say we lived in Clapham Common. We didn't. It was close, but not close enough to claim it as our address, especially since we lived in SW11/Wandsworth. We weren't even "betweenn the commons". We were Battersea, but I guess DM didn't want her sensibilities offended by associations with the power station and dogs' home.