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.

@Bagelsandbrie

My step mother (who I can’t stand) is dreadful for this. She lives in New Addington in Croydon which - if anyone knows the area- is rough as shit. (I come from the area myself so feel justified saying that!) and she insists all post is addressed to her at “Addington Village” which I’m not even sure exists anymore or ever did and certainly isn’t her listed address!

I'm from Croydon. I know exactly what you mean. Most of my school lived in New Addington.

Yess! There's a giant new build estate near where I am and everyone refers to it as a village 😆

@Bagelsandbrie people in Addington have added the village part ever since new Addington was started in 1935!

Deptford. "But we say Greenwich!" 🙄

It amuses me no end that a big chunk of Streatham markets itself as ‘Balham Borders’.

I live in the town centre, but it borders distinct areas. I sometimes say I live in X area rather than the centre of town as it gives a more accurate idea of where I live. X area is one parallel street away from me.

@BreakfastOfWaffles

Years ago I bought a flat in Acton. The estate agent insisted on calling it "North Chiswick" 😂 😂

I was just going to say that I live in Acton, but some of my neighbours live in North Chiswick! So it's still going on.

(And has been for 140+ years - when the Victorian house that my flat is part of was built as part of a development, the developer had to make it a gated community to try to attract naice people, because the area around it was full of piggeries and laundries!)

When I first rented a flat in Manchester was marketed as Victoria Park by estate agents council thought it was longsight which isn't the best areab

Brother used to be a postman working in SE London. He lost count of the amount of times he saw letters addressed as Blackheath with an SE13 (Lewisham) postcode.

@BreakfastOfWaffles

Years ago I bought a flat in Acton. The estate agent insisted on calling it "North Chiswick" 😂 😂

Actually, that is the excuse my friends used for saying their first house was in glasnevin not in fact in finglas. (Dublin reference but same scripts!). They had moved in before they realised, oh, other people consider this Finglas??? The Estate Agent referred to it throughout as being in Glasnevin until the ink was dry.

I live on what used to be a main road out of/into the city but was bypassed nearly 20 years ago and is now a quiet road connecting two areas that have grown into big suburbs. I'm not actually in either area though some businesses on my street use either address. I'm technically nearer to one suburb than the other but if I use that address on my car insurance application (I have to pick one of the two) my insurance is 10-15% more expensive. I pick the other.

When I put in my post code it comes up with a posher sounding area that is less helpful to find my house so I just put in the name of the road. It's like a townlands thing. The townland is posher sounding and I'm on it, just, but the name of the fucking road my cul de sac is on is going to assist the postal staff more. Well, the post code does that but still.

'North Kew' = new flat in Brentford.

I live on the border of two towns, my front door is in one town the back garden is in another (I'm not exactly sure where the border is it could be down the middle of the house) I say I live in the town where the front door is, some neighbours claim we are in the other town as the main road is at the back and just a cul de sac at the front so they think the main road is more significant.

People probably accuse me of claiming the wrong town whatever I do.

My parents live in a posh area but if you go down the road,cross over it and go a few yards down it’s a bit rougher
If you say they live in rough area she goes mental
‘I live in posh area!
It doesn’t bother my dad at all and it’s was hours of fun as a teenager
Wind her up and watch her fly
My in laws live in a very posh area (think million pound houses as standard) and they just say that’s where they live-no shits given-I think it’s because people like my mother want to prove something
It’s her inner mrs bucket

@TeaAndHobnob Edgbaston is huge, correct. It incorporates areas formerly known as Ladywood and Balsall Heath as well. Lived in Brum many years ago, do you mean Ladywood and Balsall Heath no longer exist or just parts of them now called Edgbaston? If it is the latter parts of them were always referred to as Edgbaston or Calthorpe, I think the Calthorpe was because it was the local telephone exchange so people with a Calthorpe phone number said they lived in Calthorpe.

Actually I think the same is true for parts of Weoley Castley and Quinton, they had Harbourne phone numbers.

@EssentialHummus

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

When I lived in New Cross, estate agents were calling it West Greenwich

Now in Blackheath/Greenwich border area and everyone seems to have different ideas of what areas are what! Or fudging on which estate they're on. Not sure why, it seems really nice everywhere around here.

Unfortunately I think this is caused by people being sneery about certain areas

It depends on who I'm talking to. I no longer live in Cornwall, so if someone asks where I'm from, I say 'near to St Ives'... if someone knows the area, then I'll actually give the village's name.

This is the 'actually' syndrome isn't it?

Do you live in Brighton? No, Hove actually!

Do you live in Liverpool? No, the Wirral actually!

Do you live in Eastleigh? No, Chandlers Ford actually!

I used to live in a flat that was advertised as being "Dulwich borders" which in reality was West Norwood.

This was at the time Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman had a house in Dulwich

@BilboBercow

Unfortunately I think this is caused by people being sneery about certain areas

So true. I just say where I live, but sometimes I get a blunt response 'god it's shit there isn't it?'' from people who've clearly never been.

Not quite the same but Staines always makes me laugh since they added the 'upon Thames' and residents insist on using the full thing at any opportunity. Very Hyacinth Bucket.

I used to live in St. Evenage.