How do you define the part of London that you live in?

[tarannau]

Penge is a weird area frankly. I never even knew it existed until I went to University, when some dodgy pyscho/rocka/nonceabilly lass kept on insisting it was just round the corner from where I grew up (Brixton)

Actually it's not that far away, but I don't recall even passing through Penge until my early 20s, on detour through Crystal Palace. Very popular with lowlifes and lesser members of the criminal fraternity I hear - honest guv.

 

[zenie]

I live in zone 6. Am I even ALLOWED to call it London?

If Sutton and Croydon can, you sure as hell can too

 

[Kanda]

Penge is full of 12 year olds saying *isit?* to each other.

 

[Roadkill]

The whole Arsenal is being redeveloped and turned into flats - she's living in one but is insisting that it's a separate area called 'Royal Arsenal' rather than Woolwich!

AFAIK that's how it's being marketed, aimed at 'young professionals' and the like who don't want to admit to living in Woolwich! Probably a good investment, though, given that the Olympics and the DLR link will cause house prices in the area to shoot up in the next few years.

I just say I live in Charlton, FWIW, although I'm very close to Woolwich and I have been known to say 'I live in Woolwich' to the surprising number of people who don't know where Charlton is...

 

[Biddlybee]

Poncey

East Dulwich

 

[quimcunx]

Is it the Brixton or Streatham End? Or nr the prison?

( am I making this too complex??)

Don't listen to him, he's Streatham.


Brixton. Everyone knows Brixton. It's a proper place.

From now on I'm just going to say near Minnie.

 

[zenie]

Penge is full of 12 year olds saying *isit?* to each other.

is it tho?

 

[d.a.s.h]

Penge is a weird area frankly. I never even knew it existed until I went to University, when some dodgy pyscho/rocka/nonceabilly lass kept on insisting it was just round the corner from where I grew up (Brixton)

Jerry Lee Lewis did have a very young wife but still never heard of that particular er youth cult.

 

[yield]

If Sutton and Croydon can, you sure as hell can too

Phew...

I live in Metroland then. Bet that Roadkill already knows what that is.

Dull dull low-rise suburbia. Green and grey.

 

[Kanda]

Don't listen to him, he's Streatham.


Brixton. Everyone knows Brixton. It's a proper place.

From now on I'm just going to say near Minnie.

Shush convict!!

 

[zenie]

Phew...

I live in Metroland then. Bet that Roadkill already knows what that is.

Dull dull low-rise suburbia. Green and grey.

Cool name, I went to Northolt the other day....and it was dull, low rise suburbia indeed.

Sorry!

 

[Dan U]

Currently I say 'between Tulse Hill and West Dulwich, just off the south circular'

When I move I'll say "near Crystal Palace Park, the other end from Crystal Palace... oh, ok, fine. I live in Penge.'

when i used to live in West Dulwich people always used to say 'where?' or 'Lordship Lane?' and i'd say no!

but if i said about 5 mins on a bus from Brockwell Park they'd all nod sagely.

 

[Stobart Stopper]

Hainault= Chav Central.

 

[Andy the Don]

another person who insisted they lived in 'Royal Arsenal' (Woolwich)

Because a Woolwich Areshole postcode does not add value to your flat.
I used to live in Streatham Village No I could not find it listed on the A-Z as well.
But saying that before I moved to Hither Green I had never heard of it. Although had I heard it be described as the arse end of Lewisham I too would have nodded my head sagely..

 

[Andy the Don]

Hainault= Chav Central.

Used to work with a girl from Hainault. She pronounced it as "anal".. very, very confusing..

"Where do you live..??"
"..'ainault"

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Some places are no-mans lands - for example on yesterday's thread a pub was described as being in the 'Oval end of stockwell' or the ' Stockwell end of the Oval' .

I live between Clapham north and Stockwell tube an area which was formly known as Babilon ( those that still doesn't give people a clear answer if they don't know it was called Babilon) So I sometimes say off landor Road... except that doesn't work if they don't know where it is....

anyway, is your area easily defined or one of London's no-mans lands? And should we rename the no-man's land?

I used to live in Jefferys road. Is that the same no mans land? I just said I lived in Stockwell

 

[spanglechick]

Herne Hill.

Though I believe Estate agents would refer to it as "The prestigious North Dulwich Triangle".

It's clearly not where bluey and the hive live, though. So, i might refer to it as the posh bit of herne hill.

 

[skyscraper101]

I'm like directly between Shepherds Bush and Kensington Olympia in a street occupied by estate agents and their 'groovy minis'

 

[boohoo]

I used to live in Jefferys road. Is that the same no mans land? I just said I lived in Stockwell

I live near Union road so not that far away... and yes the same not quite Stockwell, not quite Clapham area...

I grew up down Slade Gardens area of Stockwell. or Stockwell Park area of Stockwell ( posh bit not estate). Or nr the Grovesnor bit of Stockwell

 

[dolly's gal]

upper-walthamstow i believe is the technical term. i tend to generally just say walthamstow though.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I used to live in Jefferys road. Is that the same no mans land? I just said I lived in Stockwell

Is that where the library was? Didn't the Stockwell Strangler live around there?

*backs away slowly from Atomic Suplex*.

 

[boohoo]

upper-walthamstow i believe is the technical term. i tend to generally just say walthamstow though.

So is that near the village or more towards baker's arms or Blackhorse Road? etc...etc...

 

[pk]

Streatham - near Streatham Common Station, which is of course further away from the Common than Streatham Station.

Eh? No it's not!

 

[boohoo]

Is that where the library was? Didn't the Stockwell Strangler live around there?

*backs away slowly from Atomic Suplex*.

Jeffreys Road is where the Stockwell artist studios are and where the bloke from the KLF squatted..

 

[Belushi]

Eh? No it's not!

Yes it is! - you have to walk all the way up Greyhound Lane to get to the Common from Streatham Common station - Streatham station is just along the road from the common.

 

[sonik]

Leafy Surrey!!

 

[boohoo]

Leafy Surrey!!

That covers a big area!!!

 

[quimcunx]

upper-walthamstow i believe is the technical term. i tend to generally just say walthamstow though.

how daggy an area can it be that it tries to latch itself onto Walthamstow?

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Used to work with a girl from Hainault. She pronounced it as "anal".. very, very confusing..

"Where do you live..??"
"..'ainault"

I lived in Owl's Brie for years.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I lived in Owl's Brie for years.

Aylesbury?