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.

Blackheath is a tricky one. When I think of blackheath, I think of blackheath village, but the hair salon I go to is in "Blackheath" according to their postcode (SE3) and google maps, but it's directly on top of the Sun in the Sands roundabout on Shooters Hill Road. It would take you a long time to walk to blackheath village from there!

Yes @Ginfordinner, its a shame because the area doesn't seem to be able to shake off the reputation even when its changed so people feel ashamed to live there. However I do remember Battersea, Balham, Clapham, Brixton, Peckham and Notting Hill being regarded as shit area's at one time so over time, things change.

Yes ! I used to live in an area of Leicester called beaumont leys . It has a rough reputation . One of my mates lived near the sandwich factory a bit further out but still in Beaumont leys . They used to say they lived in anstey heights (anstey is seen as posher )

YANBU!

The Blackheath thing makes me chuckle, although I do think estate agents have a lot to answer for!

I always say either just north of London, near St Albans or near Luton - depends on the audience - all have got me into trouble for one reason or another and when I mention the town we're from - chances are no one has heard of it. 😂

Years ago I bought a house on a new housing estate that was advertised as being in Guildford. To be fair, it is in Guildford borough and they emptied our bins. But it was and is not in Guildford, it was about 8 miles away.

I had a cousin who lived next door to Swindon fire station, her mother lived in West Wales and used to tell everyone her daughter lived in Windsor..............

The funny thing about the Farnham borders/Aldershot one is that the houses in the "posh" bit of Aldershot close to the border with Farnham are really nice, and some of the houses over the border in Farnham are nowhere near as nice.

The other thing that makes me laugh is Fleet in Hampshire. It's not so much that people pretend to be from a certain bit of it, as its all quite "naice" other than about two streets, but people make a distinction between Fleet itself and "Church Crookham". No way is Fleet big enough to be split into "villages" and different postal addresses!

@Newpuppymummy

Balham South=Tooting Bec

I used to live in Balham South :) It was technically Streatham but I was just a few hundred metres from Tooting Bec common and about equidistant between Tooting Bec tube, Streatham and Streatham Common stations.

I do not live in Jersey Farm St Albans, I live in Marshalswick.

Many years ago, Skswood school would not entertain kids from the new build estate, forcing children to walk, or parents to drive to Wheatfields JMI and junior school a good deal further away.

A long time ago (well before it became expensive and was still considered rough) a friend of mine used to say tongue in cheek that she lived in ClapAHM.

I worked in the community charge (poll tax) offices in the early 90's in my uni holidays, processing address changes etc.

We covered the Vale Royal borough, mid Cheshire - but not posh!
Mainly Winsford, a Manchester & Liverpool overall town. Lots of council estates, poverty etc.
There were some private estates being built on the outskirts, Chester side but definately Winsford - the number of buyers who'd try to insist that their address was Chester was unreal. Not that we could do anything, the addresses were set on the system. A few got quite cross about having Winsford in their address.

It would depend whose asking - so someone I don’t want to know too close to where I live I would say I live close to (neighbouring borough) just so it doesn’t pin point me. Those who I know I have no problem saying where I live.

I love my flat and it is about what you make of it not where it is. I’m perfectly safe once I’m in my door and I’ve had no issues here. (Other than some roadworks that kept me up in first lockdown but that’s neither here nor there)

ClapAHM? How common my dear. To the cognoscenti it is Clahm

@MrsBennetsnerves I listen to nick and I always wondered where he lived in blackheath. I used to live just off Belmont Hill, anywhere near there?

Opposite problem here. I live on a new build estate which is next to a huge council estate.

Say new build area is called PineApple and the council estate is called Sausage Estate.

You say you live on PineApple (because you actually do) and some idiot will always say “Don’t you mean Sausage Estate?” or “So basically you live on Sausage Estate?”

🙄 yeah whatever

@TeaAndHobnob

Edgebaston always did go into the less salubrious bit of town, I legitimately lived in edgebaston by postal address but the corners of the roads were occupied by young and not so young ladies touting the oldest profession. 200m down the road Balsall Heath began.

I grew up a couple of streets from a very well known area, I went to school and college in that area, even our local shop and park were in that area. I just said I came from that area, because where I really came from was a suburb that nobody claimed to be from (wedged in-between the posh area and the well known area). Some of our neighbours claimed the other way though. We couldn't even fake posh

The suburban area is now popular with estate agents and everyone wants to live there! Go figure!

Dublin has numbers after it for an area eg Dublin 1, Dublin 2, Dublin 7, Dublin 22 etc.
North of the River Liffey are uneven numbers, south of the river even numbers.
There are parts of BOTH north and south considered more upmarket than others.
A few years back in Dublin some official body - council or post office ???- decided to change the boundaries for certain numbers.
So people living in certain parts of Dublin 6 ( further from the centre of the city ) would be going into Dublin 12 / 14
( I think ).
Uproar !!!!
An Irish solution to an Irish problem - the officials made those parts Dublin 6 W.
The W is for west.
And they say there is no class issue in Ireland. Hah !!!!

This is most definitely universal. I have a friend who lives in Slough, but if you ask her she lives ‘near Windsor.’

@longwayoff

ClapAHM? How common my dear. To the cognoscenti it is Clahm

Don't forget St Reatham.

@LadyEloise
How would people have been able to ID things as [Very] D4 (never mind all the other stratifications) if there were no class issue one has to wonder...

I forgot about D4
Apparently Cork too has its posh areas but I haven't a clue where they are.

I know a few people who claim to live in Chiswick, but really they mean Acton.

It can also happen in reverse- I grew up with lots of people living in multi million pound homes in Sanderstead and Chipstead, claiming they were from Croydon!