What is wrong with post code shame?

[Alan Dale]

Square one. Thanks Keef.

[Mr Bojangles]

I do live in camberwell and I'm not sure why you think I'd be bothered by that. As someone said earlier on this thread, people often illustrate where they live by their closest station. It's where I tell cabbies.

Seriously, harrasing people about postcodes isn't going to make camberwell a more attractive place to live for you. You really do have a big chip on your shoulder about Camberwell. You should try and relax a bit more

[lozzyloz]

So this explains why it's so difficult to get a black cab south of the river late at night.

People ask to go home to East Dulwich and then suddenly say "Oh! Next left please I'm just off Southampton Way."

[Alan Dale]

Mr Bojangles Wrote:

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> You should try

> and relax a bit more

Sure thing babe.

[Mr Bojangles]

That's better. Now we can all go and support Hoopers in East Dulwich with their party on Sunday

[*Bob*]

Will it be open?

[Mr Bojangles]

Its supposed to be although it might have moved to peckham by then

[*Bob*]

That's ok, I might move to Peckham tomorrow anyway - so I'll be in the area.

[peckhamboy]

I have no problem living in a Peckham postcode (not least because I get to live very close to Lordship Lane but only paid SE15 prices for my house), but given that I live about 1/4 of a mile from ED station, and about 1 mile from Peckham Rye, tend to ask for ED when I get a cab home, or describe it as ED when friends come to visit. I started off by being "honest" and calling it peckham but quickly realised it just led to confusion and doubled the taxi fare because cabbies would set off down the Old Kent Rd.

People in London define where they live by their nearest station or landmark rather than by postcode. It rarely has anything to do with shame (Maurice excepted). If I lived downhill of the lights on DKH I'd call it ED, uphill is Denmark Hill, anything else is Peckham. Camberwell doesn't have a station so as far as I'm concerned it doesn't really exist apart from a few hundred metres round the junction at Camberwell Green.

[Keef]

lozzyloz Wrote:

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> So this explains why it's so difficult to get a black cab south of the river late at night.

> People ask to go home to East Dulwich and then suddenly say "Oh! Next left please I'm just off Southampton Way."

Ha, that's just reminded me of a time I got a cab from a party in Shooters Hill with an ex, an old school friend, and her fella. He knew full well she lived in East Dulwich, but insisted on telling the cab driver he lived in Peckham. The driver then went through New Cross, in to Peckham, and the guy started directing him. We ended up dropping him off just round the corner from Goose Green...

Now I know that is Peckham, but the cab ended up costing a fortune! Had he just said, we could have all gone straight to Goose Green and walked from there. Grrr!

Aaaanyway, Alan I'm sorry for dragging you back to Square One, so where does Camberwell end then? What about the part of Denmark Hill going up towards Red Post Hill?

[macroban]

> Camberwell doesn't have a station

It does, but it is temporarily closed, awaiting better times.

Been waiting since 1916.

[Mr Bojangles]

It has a nandos though

[Alan Dale]

And McDonalds.

And The Bear and Caravaggio.

[SteveT]

Whenever I get a cab I always ask for Peckham Rye as it is easier to identify a large space on the AtoZ than to ask for East Dulwich. When I lived in Herne Hill I always asked for 'Brixton' because the cabbies had heard of it. When I first came to London (1970) I would have been hard pressed to discern Hampstead from Hackney it all seemed a big wide road city, such a big busy place.

When I was in New York I couldn't tell Times Square from the Bronx it just felt like another big city. You have to be resident to tell the difference. Your way of life differs very little where ever one resides in a large urban area so I put little value on a digit. I feel it is more important to live close to ones work and reduce travelling time/costs which affects your life, than the consideration of postal codes that do not.

[Alan Dale]

So you live in Camberwell too. Pleased to meet you SteveT.

[Klaus]

I seem to remember The Gowlett states that it's in "Bellenden" on it's own stationary.

Must remember to give that one a go next time i'm in a cab.

[*Bob*]

Ahh.. Good old Bellenden 'Village'.

Some of the residents there have truly mastered the fine art of pretending they don't live in Peckham.

[mamafeelgood]

post code envy is part of being a londoner, nothing wrong with that. it has never been fair but sorry se22ers camberwell may not have the chi chi factor but it's got the better post code.

[Moos]

I agree with Peckhamboy, I'm a Peckhamite living within a pebble-chuck of Goose Green - don't deny you live in SE15 but direct cabbies and visiting friends via East Dulwich station.

Slightly wonder whether this is all a little bit of South London navel-gazing. Most people who don't live in the area wouldn't perceive any difference whatsoever between East Dulwich and Peckham Rye. Within my house, those of us who live on the 1st floor wouldn't give those scumbags on the 2nd floor the time of day.

[Alan Dale]

I've had a rethink. I have decided it's ok to be more specific about where you live.

For example, it is not ok to say you live in Angel when you live in Hackney but it is ok to say you live just off Essex Road.

Apologies Mr Bojangles I think I misinterpreted your posts.

There you go. Takes a big man to admit when he's wrong. Who's the man?

Alan Dale of Allendale Close, Selborne Village, Near safeway carpark, behind the lovely Butterfly walk (shop space available), in the heart of Camberwell, SE5, London.

[Brendan]

This is silly. I would love to know who really gives a dam about the post code they live in. Isn?t it just one of those things used in comedy? Surely anyone who is intelligent enough to read is intelligent enough not to care? Or am I just na?ve?

Although if people lie about where they live because they want others to think that they live close to me then I suppose I can understand it.

[lozzyloz]

Collect the set and know you're a success in life - Personalized number plate, trendy post code, inner london phone prefix, German 4x4 and live close to Brendan.

[Keef]

Brendan Wrote:

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> This is silly. I would love to know who really gives a dam about the post code they live in.

It's a status symbol for some. Some Scousers used to think it made them sound hard to be from Liverpool 8 (L8 being Toxteth). :-S

[KalamityKel]

Is this no longer the EDForum? :p

[????]

As someone who spent 16 years years living in Camberwell (and is now just starting a secondstint in ED) I have to say I never met anyone from camberwell who said they lived anywhere else....I guess it shows what a lot of dreary, status conscious, bourgoeis idiots 'Thatcher's children' have become....

To be honest, anyone under say 35, not living with their mums and dads or without a young family who'd rather live in SE22 than SE5 must be as dull as ditchwater....