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.

Like Rockingham trying to pretend it's in Rutland rather than a spit in the wind from Corby.

I’ve said this before because I’m fucking sick of people judging me based on where I live.

I live on the border of Blackpool and Lytham St Anne’s but I’m definitely on the Blackpool side. People, including many on here, hear Blackpool and assume I’m common as muck and thick as shit. I’m not and neither are the vast majority of people who live here but too many people are so prejudiced that it’s easier to pretend I live a mile further up the road sometimes. That’s not because I’m ashamed of living here or being a snob, far from it, it’s because I’m sick of being unfairly judged by certain people because of where I do live.

People do judge don't they. We pay our council tax to Barnsley MBC, but 80% of the BMBC area is rural, and a lot of it is very pretty.

Balham South=Tooting Bec

This thread reminds me of how completely impossible it was to afford anywhere in london in a neighbourhood that wasn't considered a bad one

I grew up in Kilburn and this had been going on for years with estate agents and the newcomers who believe their bullshit.

Maida Vale / Carlton Vale - you live in south KILBURN
West Hampstead - KILBURN
Brondesbury - KILBURN

It’s all Kilburn. Own it! 😆

I worked for a company which was guilty of this. They had an office in the middle of Crawley. Claimed it was in 'Gatwick' because it apparently sounded classier 😂 pathetic.

Railway lines really mark out areas in the suburbs

@hansgrueber

When the local bounderies were reorganised back in the 70s a lot of posh places found themselves legally in Salford, the residents of Worsley, Roe Green amd a few other places were not at all pleased! Estate agents will tell you how important an address is, viewers of property websites will always want to avoid certain areas

Call it Little Hulton, they'll thank you.

One relative who lives in X (not v nice area-terrible reputation) says they live 'twenty houses from Y' (nicer area and across county border so better postcode) but those twenty houses are spaced out along a road about a mile long.

Someone I used to live on a road which divided a very posh bit from a council estate even though the houses are the same on both sides of the road hers was about £30,000 cheaper than the one opposite.

I've also seen Splott in Cardiff, a working class area, described as Lower Cyncoed , guess what Cyncoed's like.

It works in reverse too. We’re Cheshire but part of the Liverpool city region that was the first to go into tier 3 and everyone was up in arms about it ‘but we are Cheshire!!’ - tables have turned and someone said to me today oh you’re going into tier 4 tomorrow aren’t you?’ - I was very quick to put them right that we’re not Cheshire we’re in the city region!

[quote Rosehip10]@glasshalfsomething I always thought East Didsbury was a different/distinct area (albeit adjacent) to Burnage.[/quote]
It is. Unless you’re an estate agent. The boundary line has been moving every year for the last decade

Once a friend of mine said he was staying in blackheath and I told him we should meet up as I was just nearby in Greenwich. Turned out we were in the street next door to each other and both in Charlton. And not in the bit of Charlton that is over the road from SE3. But that area is a bit confusing. I often used to say Greenwich as no one knew Charlton and it IS in the borough of Greenwich. Now ‘Charlton slopes’, an estate agent construct, is seen as a desirable place to be.

@Pedallleur

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

Well it is quite nice. It’s like any area in a large city.There will always be contrasting areas nearby.

It goes the other way too.

When I was at uni, there was lots of posh people who pretended that they grew up in “the hood” to gain false “gangster clout”

Also seemed like a lot of southerners would claim to be from London as in people from Kent etc

Borders stuck on the end of the name is always a clue. Chorlton borders in Manchester covers Stretford, Whalley Range and Old Trafford. Part of Moss Side is Hulme High street and so on.

I live in N22 so technically Wood Green, but it's near Ally Pally and borders on Muswell Hill. I say Wood Green or Alexandra Park depending on my audience.

I lived for a while in Holloway during the 90s but said I lived in Islington, which was true, I lived in the borough of Islington.

@foxychox I live in Debden and say so. Once in a convo with a lady I met at a social event, I said I live in Debden, she said she lives in Loughton... turns out we live up the road from each other. Awkward.

Also, I genuinely overheard an estate agent describing a house in England's Lane as 'Lower Theydon Bois'.

[quote Werk]@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).[/quote]
Some of the houses on the Heath are in SE13.

Anecdotally, Tony Benn (who lived in a huge house on the Heath) arranged for a spur of it to be classified as SE13, rather than SE3. Far more in keeping with his man-of-the-people image. He could say he lived in Lewisham, rather than Blackheath. It works both ways.

@Butchyrestingface I’m trying to work out where “merchant city east” is. Dennistoun? The gallowgate? Toll cross? Park head?

@Butchyrestingface. I’m from south bearsden. (Well, actually, Drumchapel)

@Rosehip10

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

Came to say this. I live in Lewisham but ads for the area always describe it as Blackheath. It definitely isn't

[quote Rosehip10]@pickachew people from Beverly would gasp at that [/quote]
Yes they would! 😂

This isn’t just a London thing. It also happens in the Midlands, eg

“You live in Birmingham, don’t you?”
“It’s Solihull, actually”

Or, in my case....

“You live in Leicester, don’t you?”
“It’s Charnwood, actually....”