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.

I live in Yorkshire, plenty of places have separate 'villages' with upper/lower, or east/west in their actual names, with plenty of fields and open space separating them.

Couple of villages near me are quite linear in their set-up - they developed along an old trunk road, now bypassed - but known as completely different names. One very naice, lots of old quaint buildings, lovely pubs etc. The other, a good 2 miles away, a bit dodgy, with a particularly notorious housing estate, is having newbuilds constructed on the side closest to the 'naice' village. The developer has now given this site the name south 'naice' village rather than north notorious village - even though it directly backs onto the boundaries of houses there, and is 2m away, separated by fields, the bypass and a river from the naice one!

Added a good few £kkk onto the price of the new houses too, funny that...

I live on a (older) "executive" new build estate next to a rough council estate, it is technically the same area name. We also live adjacent to a very desirable village. Neighbour used to run the local toddler group and found folk from our estate applying saying they lived in "lower village name". It got to the point where she said the group was getting full and it was for residents of "estate name Inc council estate" only, then they had to explain....

We have always said we are from where we are and wait for folk to work out we are in the "posh" bit.

I mean what does it matter? people are people, some are nice and some are wankers, postcode is rarely a factor.

I get why folks use different names when selling houses if it encourages more folk to give it a chance.

I’m laughing along here. I also live in a perfectly nice area which borders a very smart enclave, and many people (egged on by estate agents) claim to live in the enclave.

DM lives in a house in an area of Bristol called Brentry. It's a reasonably small and quiet part of town. When the housing estate was built in the 60's it was marketed as Westbury on Trym (naice area of town). However between Westbury on Trym and Brentry is another area called Southmead (not so naice in parts).
DM still addresses documents as W-O-T.

I have quite a few friends who say they live in Brighton. They don’t they live in south wick, ports laden or falmer.

@rollinggreenhills

I used to live in St. Evenage.

My sister used to live in St Reatham 😂

At which point I usually snigger and I say I live in "Whitechapel village".
Lol!!

St. Evenage
Ha ha ha that's brilliant.

Muswell Hill seems to cover a 5 mile radius for those in North London!

I used to do this as I grew up, and stayed in for much of my early adulthood, a town that was notorious for being rough. Unfortunately, because of this there was a stigma and assumption made by people about the type of person that would live there. It really affected my ability to find employment as I knew a few employers who wouldn't even interview anyone from a certain area, and so I changed my address on my CV and used the name that is used for the collection of towns in the area and saw a vast improvement of my job opportunities. The comments from some people when the realised I was from THAT town were baffling, 'but you seem nice/normal/well spoken etc.

The stigma of living in that area is still very much alive, even though the people in it are generally good, honest folk. Mud sticks and it is so unfair to have opportunities denied to you by ignorance. I can imagine there are few people who use different areas on correspondence etc and do so so that they are not stereotyped rather than because they want to pretend to be posh.

@InterfectoremVulpes

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

Anything east of West Norwood high street gets called West Dulwich as far as I can tell.

I had a chum who was a Consultant at Southend and there was a road where odd numbers where in Shoeburyness (poor) and the even numbers were in Thorpe Bay (stonkingly rich). he took great pleasure in saying to patients, "Ah I see you live in Shoebury.. ."

And I currently live in Lee, not Blackheath!

Sale near Mcr. Shares the same postcode as Wythenshawe, home of Liam/Noel Gallagher but someone I work with believes Sale is somehow the same as Holland Park or some glitzy part of Cheshire

I was born in Merchant City East (Glasgow).

Any Weegies who contradict... DIE. Christmas or not. 🔫

Think it’s funny how these things evolve though. I used to live in Clapham SW London. Friends of mine lived in Balham, then often known as Clapham Borders. Now Balham is considered desirable in its own right so is no longer known as Balham Borders however I have heard Tooting referred to as Balham Borders. Those of us in Battersea occasionally refer to it as South Chelsea (Batt-er-see-ah) but more in jest than anything else.

@SkedaddIe

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

I live in peckham and never said dulwich (although I am on the border of East dulwich). Always been proud of peckham. Have heard many times ppl say they live in dulwich when they ate in se15. Now its trendy though and peckham is cool to live in.

I live in Shoreditch, one of the neighbours insists that she lives in Islington, she also gets annoyed when we “hear those awful crime sounds” she refuses to mention that we are near a police station. At one of our residents meeting she suggested that we should ask police sirens/lights to be turned off within sight/hearing of the building so guests didn’t realise its there.

@MrsBennetsnerves Nick Ferrari does this - says on his radio show that he lives in Blackheath... definitely SE13 though (and I don't see the shame in saying so - some of SE13 is lovely).

Our village has one street of council/ex council houses. The woman at one end removed part of the hedge and moved the entrance of her drive to the side into a lane instead of the front onto the street.

She puts her address as the lane, and not the road its on where her house is identical to the other 16 houses???.

"Weybridge Garden Centre" is most definitely not in Weybridge, it's in Addlestone.

I imagine they actually loose customers because of people going to Weybridge and wondering why they can't find the garden centre there.

Closest tube stop to me is Ladbroke Grove.

If I'm feeling a bit posh.. I live in "North Kensington"

If I'm feeling very posh.. I live in "Notting Hill"

I was once told an office was in North Windsor. It was on Slough High Street....

Windsor borders was Slough, Greenford borders or Norwood Green aka Southall

As mentioned previously Sale greater Manchester, Manchester post code, ‘it’s Cheshire’.

Historically yes, now no.

My brother does the opposite. He tells people he lives in Luton. So if your sat nav dies when you are on the motorway to his new house and think "its ok, I'll get off at the Luton junction and call him", that is far too early to get off the motorway and it Will take a bloody age to get to his house, driving through Luton, out the other side into pretty countryside villages.

But then we grew up in the North West. He puts on an accent like one of oasis. He went to public school.

Reverse snobbery is a thing and its even more hilarious than the standard variety.

@Greenandcabbagelooking

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.

I'm trying so hard to guess where this is! Sydenham hill?!

When I'm being facetious I say we're Dulwich borders although we're in forest hill.

People do this with the Cotswold all the time! If the cotswolds stretches as far as estate agents said it would be about 4 times the size!!!