Which are the 'Home' Counties and why are they called such?

[cybertect]

there should be a free text box for the main address and one for the postcode that's it.

Which works fine if you're in the UK, but not in a lot of other countries - indeed most of them will break with this simplified format.

If you're in France, for example, the post code comes before the town. So you need to separate out the town from the rest of the address to be able to insert the post code before it.

e.g.

150 avenue de la République
BP 101
92323 Châtillon Cedex
France

There's loads of variations.

http://bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html

You really need to capture the street, city (locality), province, post code and so on separately to be able to put them into the right order for each country.

 

[internetstalker]

Always ask the Stalker

Counties around London in 1921:
1. Buckinghamshire,
2. Essex,
3. Hertfordshire,
4. Berkshire,
5. Middlesex,
6. Kent,
7. Surrey,
8. Sussex (East),
9. Sussex (West)

 

[kabbes]

Is 1921 that helpful, when it includes a county that doesn't even exist any more?

You ganked that from Wiki, didn't you?

 

[internetstalker]

You ganked that from Wiki, didn't you?

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Which works fine if you're in the UK, but not in a lot of other countries - indeed most of them will break with this simplified format.

If you're in France, for example, the post code comes before the town. So you need to separate out the town from the rest of the address to be able to insert the post code before it.

e.g.



There's loads of variations.

http://bitboost.com/ref/international-address-formats.html

You really need to capture the street, city (locality), province, post code and so on separately to be able to put them into the right order for each country.

fine i'm happy with jkust a free text box tbh

no need for anything else...

 

[Hocus Eye.]

I am in one of the so called Home Counties. However I was brought up in Devon and was always annoyed at the arrogance of London. The idea that the only place in the UK that could be considered as 'home' was London so that the counties adjoining it were also part of the 'home'. Everywhere else was 'the provinces'. You don't hear that much nowadays though.

Dammit, and [begins to snarl] the bloomin' Beeb always talking as if everyone lived in London and worked in an office. As a youngster I always used to watch news broadcasts of commuters locked in traffic jams in London and the Home Counties though and feel sorry for them in a similar way that you can feel sorry for people in disadvantaged third world countries. We only had traffic jams in Devon for the six weeks of the school summer holidays. Apart from that it was civilized. Them poor Lunnuners eh, but they be so up 'emselves an all.

 

[kabbes]

I am in one of the so called Home Counties. However I was brought up in Devon and was always annoyed at the arrogance of London. The idea that the only place in the UK that could be considered as 'home' was London so that the counties adjoining it were also part of the 'home'. Everywhere else was 'the provinces'. You don't hear that much nowadays though.

Dammit, and [begins to snarl] the bloomin' Beeb always talking as if everyone lived in London and worked in an office. As a youngster I always used to watch news broadcasts of commuters locked in traffic jams in London and the Home Counties though and feel sorry for them in a similar way that you can feel sorry for people in disadvantaged third world countries. We only had traffic jams in Devon for the six weeks of the school summer holidays. Apart from that it was civilized. Them poor Lunnuners eh, but they be so up 'emselves an all.

And now you're one of us

I want to live in Devon. Fuck it -- I want to live almost anywhere but in the South-East.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

I am in one of the so called Home Counties. However I was brought up in Devon and was always annoyed at the arrogance of London. The idea that the only place in the UK that could be considered as 'home' was London so that the counties adjoining it were also part of the 'home'. Everywhere else was 'the provinces'. You don't hear that much nowadays though.

Dammit, and [begins to snarl] the bloomin' Beeb always talking as if everyone lived in London and worked in an office. As a youngster I always used to watch news broadcasts of commuters locked in traffic jams in London and the Home Counties though and feel sorry for them in a similar way that you can feel sorry for people in disadvantaged third world countries. We only had traffic jams in Devon for the six weeks of the school summer holidays. Apart from that it was civilized. Them poor Lunnuners eh, but they be so up 'emselves an all.

oh fuck off you bumpkin we let you into the home of the nation didn't we