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.

My DB was invited to his friend’s house in Peckham after not visiting the area in years. Apparently his first words were, “Dude, what have they DONE to Peckham???”

@MedusasBadHairDay

This has always amused me, I grew up in Slough and so I'd see it a lot, people either wanted to pretend they were really in Windsor, or they were really in London. I knew someone who would just insist they lived in "Royal Berkshire" (emphasis on the "Royal")

Like Greenford borders which was really Southall😊

I remember lots of friends settling in south London in locations that were apparently the outer spiral arms of Dulwich. It was fun addressing Christmas cards to "North North North West West Dulwich" among other variants.

One lived in a house that was printed exactly inside the U of Tulse Hill in the A-Z.

My postcode is quite posh. Obviously not all of it and it is surrounded by less affluent postcodes all the way round. My local Facebook selling / community page is inundated with people from surrounding postcodes (I'm admin) who want to join, they even lie and pretend they live in the postcode. They are not allowed to sell. It's really weird - why don't they join their own??!

I live in Catford and I've been guilty of saying Forest Hill (and even "south of Greenwich") but it's more because a lot of people have no idea where Catford is

Nah. It's because if you live anywhere past St Dunstan's heading out of Catford, then saying you live in "Forest Hill Borders", even Forest Hill itself, is fair game. & I'm not judging you for it either, loads of people do it😁

Ours isn't snobbery but several companies and the local retail park claim to be over the border in England instead of in Wales. Broughton park, Broughton Chester. When Broughton is a few miles away from Chester and is in Wales.
Dhs company did the same and cited Chester even though they were 8 miles away from the border.

I live in the least nice part of my postcode. A lot of people have a lot of respect for an HD8 postcode round here.

@Bagelsandbrie @Ginfordinner @LakieLady

That mother in law is an amateur. If she doesn't live in the bit by the Church/Police Station/The Cricketers (which is all Addington Village), she should be saying 'Oh, we live over Biggin Hill way'. But that's only if she's up the top end of Addington - perhaps she doesn't know this because she's actually on Fieldway?

(For people without the local knowledge, there is actually a distinction made between one half of a rough as arseholes council estate and the other - one side of the road is 'classy, we've been here since my granddad moved from the Old Kent Road after the war' and the other, built a few years later, albeit to far lower standards and is an absolute rabbit warren of alleyways and communal car parks, is only mentioned on anything requesting a swap as 'not Fieldway'.)

My best friend at school lived in Fieldway. I remember going to the swimming pool in New Addington after they closed the pool in Scarbrook Road.

I expected to find lots of my neighbours here (potentially actual literal neighbours; weird thought, but this is my Don’t Care If I’m Outed UN) but hadn’t realised that quite so many of us are having a wee internal seethe about The Absolute Notions of some people in SE London. “Telegraph Hill” is a new one on me - are these eejits camping out in the park? My paternal grandparents lived just over the road from it & they’d not have held with this...

I live in a bit of SE13 that’s got ever-nicer over my lifetime & the amount of people trying to pretend it’s Lee (we’re right on the edge of SE12) has risen correspondingly. Mind you, suddenly “Hither Green” has been rehabilitated - but I think partly that’s people are after having it thought they live on the “nice” side of the station...

People in SE12 like to claim they’re in The Lee Conservation Area for which we must all fecking suffer even if they’re not. As well as the whole SE3/Blackheath thing.

People can be pretty vile with area snobbishness though - lots of girls I was at school with weren’t allowed to my house or to meet me near where I lived Because Lewisham; & when I went to university I genuinely had more than one person take a step back &/or “subtly” like a brick in a sock to the back of the head hide/move/cover their valuables on learning my voice isn’t a giveaway where I was from. Honest to God if they were looking to make me try out knife crime & general violence they couldn’t have done better job at inspiring me, the overprivileged under-talented great shitehawks.

@SellFridges

Oohh. I think I do this. My postcode, and the other end of the road are in a famous suburb of Birmingham. So to Brummies, I tell them where I actually live, to anyone outside I say the famous place. But it’s so they have an idea of geography, not showing off.

SC?!

@Lndnmummy

These are so funny, a lady I used to work with kept going on about “the village” she lived in or Blackheath. She lived in Eltham! Countless of Peckham people saying they live in Dulwich and yea to the “telegraph hill lot too. Oh and my personal favourite “Bellenden Village” Nope, it’s still Peckham 😬

A certain female DJ was talking about the village she grew up in, where her parents ran the village inn. Look love, your parents ran a grotty pub on a main arterial road, it's main clientele was the under-age friends of our daughter, including our daughter!

Apostrophe disaster, for it's read its.

I know of an entire NCT group who collectively decided that from a certain point onward they would all say they lived in Blythe Hill rather than Catford.

Bikerunski I am the wrong side of the roundabout in HD3

@DeeCeeCherry

I live in Catford and I've been guilty of saying Forest Hill (and even "south of Greenwich") but it's more because a lot of people have no idea where Catford is

Nah. It's because if you live anywhere past St Dunstan's heading out of Catford, then saying you live in "Forest Hill Borders", even Forest Hill itself, is fair game. & I'm not judging you for it either, loads of people do it😁

Haha I'm not even past St Dunstan, I'm closer to Hither Green than to Forest Hill.

I think from now on, I'll just say I live close to a Morley's and a giant cat.

I knew somebody who told friends he lived in a small hamlet on the outskirts of County Durham. He lived in Bishop Auckland

@FastFood
The father of my best friend in Reception class (the family moved back to Ireland at the end of that academic year) worked for the company who designed The Mighty Cat & he once brought home the plans (it was well after it was built) to show us. As one does with 4 year olds.

I think from now on, I'll just say I live close to a Morley's and a giant cat
😂
Fast food just for you I'm creating a new area:

"Lower Bromley"

I've never understood why Croydon gets such hate! It's not perfect but I love the place! I think New Addington is really nice with lots of green space and actual fresh air, unlike the poisonous air where I live. Fieldway has a bad reputation but when ever I visit New Addington strangers actually say hello, good morning/afternoon etc. I have noticed that the people who criticise it have not been to New Addington for a long time or have never been and the area has changed for the better. Also they have pockets of really nice bits and good/outstanding schools. Where I live is very popular and people are stretching their budgets to move here, but it has a far higher crime rate than New Addington. It's weird!

Years ago one of my friends was relocated for work to Gloucester and they bought an ex council house as a stop gap while looking for something more permanent. "What are you doing this weekend?" Nothing much, just returning to my estate in Gloucestershire

@longwayoff 😂

That reminds me of when I was a student and signing on the dole in the holidays (as you could then). My very posh friend came with me to also make a claim. He was asked how long he’s lived in his house and he said ‘since 1642’.

It was over 30 years ago and I still laugh about it 😂.

@ilovesouthlondon. I grew up in Croydon, and agree that it has an undeserved reputation. There are some really upmarket areas, especially in South Croydon, Selsdon Sandilands and Sanderstead. New Addington wasn't very salubrious when I went to school in the 1970s though. And you are right, I haven't set foot in NA for many years.

Yeah it's daft and they get found out eventually.
I knew a mum, very snobby, at our primary. Used to go on about where she lived being lovely, even used to drive towards it home after school.
Weird thing was though, when it was her turn for the pta coffee morning, she always had an excuse why she couldn't host.
We then left that school and moved to one in a less desirable area of town (best one they ever went to by far). One afternoon I was picking the dcs up from after school club and who do I see going into her actual house in the area she declared rough? Yep. Snobby pta mum.
That was why coffee morning never took place where she lived.
Personally I don't give a shit where people live as long as they're nice people, but that School was full of snobs who probably would've blanked her had they known where she actually lived. She looked so embarrassed when she saw me.
People are strange

I've heard estate agents talk about "Walworth Village" meaning ... Elephant & Castle