When you tell friends/ colleagues you live in East Dulwich what do they say ?

[Steph]

Bob I say East Dulwich and it really is East Dulwich but sometimes I wish it was actually Peckham!

[cate]

And Peckham is easier to say than Dulwich. I get people saying East Dullwitch? all the time.

[Moos]

"Move To Peckham - It's Pronounceable"

[lenk]

Has anyone ever told a colleague they lived on 'Bellenden Road' ?

Cue hilarious 'WHAT road?'

[Asset]

sophiesofa Wrote:

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> Oh it's a bit full of yuppies down there isn't it.

> That's what i got last time.

Was that in 1987?

[Domitianus]

I usually don't get asked anything about it at all as most of my friends and aquaintances are not pathetic post-code snobs and have more interesting things to talk about.

[lenk]

Indeed, I was at the water cooler discussing the underlying pessimism that is such a constant throughout much of Hardy's work just the other day.

[*Bob*]

Good job too, Dom. You wouldn't want to have to 'fess-up that you live in Peckham, would you?

[KidKruger]

Either that or they :

- don't know how to sustain a conversation

- ignore the comment because they think you're from a lowly area

- don't want to talk to you

[Brendan]

A lot of my friends just describe East Dulwich as, ?that bastard place I can never get home from at 3 in the morning.?

Which is pretty much how I describe the rest of London.

[AlfieNoakes]

lenk Wrote:

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> If inviting visitors, they almost always ask if

> it's alright if they stay over as it's 'such a

> long way back to Stoke Newington'.

>

> Despite me being back home in an hour whenever I

> go to visit them...

Thing is, unless your visitors leave before 11:30 they can't get a train so are looking at an hour and a half journey. Could easily take longer if they have to wait for busses. That's a long journey for a night out by anyone's standards.

Granted you can do the journey in 45 mins late at night if you pay ?20+ for a cab.

I used to live in Stokey by the way and have done this journey numerous times.

While there are many good points about ED, late night public transport is not one of them.

Back to the original question, people usually just say 'Where?'.

[woodie]

sometimes they dont know where it is.

[lenk]

AlfieNoakes Wrote:

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> lenk Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > If inviting visitors, they almost always ask if

> > it's alright if they stay over as it's 'such a

> > long way back to Stoke Newington'.

> >

> > Despite me being back home in an hour whenever

> I

> > go to visit them...

>

> Thing is, unless your visitors leave before 11:30

> they can't get a train so are looking at an hour

> and a half journey. Could easily take longer if

> they have to wait for busses. That's a long

> journey for a night out by anyone's standards.

>

> Granted you can do the journey in 45 mins late at

> night if you pay ?20+ for a cab.

>

> I used to live in Stokey by the way and have done

> this journey numerous times.

>

> While there are many good points about ED, late

> night public transport is not one of them.

>

>

> Back to the original question, people usually just

> say 'Where?'.

343 + 149 innit... an hour if you time it right.

[AlfieNoakes]

An hour if the buses time it right, which is out of your control, especially that sodding 149. ;-)

In any case, the point stands. It's a long way to hack 10 miles across central London on buses, whatever way you look at it.

Stokey's not paritcularly well connected either FWIW. In fact there are some parallels between that place and ED I always thought. Possibly because of the relatively poor transport links which maybe makes residents take more of an interest in their local venues. They both have a similar level of 3 wheel buggy ownership and outrage at crime on their doorstep.

Stokey didn't have a suspicious clown though.

[Huggers]

Stokey didn't have a suspicious clown though'

no, but it did have a totally random psychopathic killer in Clissold Park.

[jaybee82]

I got "Never heard of it. Is it out in Surrey somewhere?"

I swear places without a tube station don't exist to the average Londoner.

[Windom]

i get many boondocks related comments, and then every time they come down they seem astounded thats its only 15min on train from Lon Bridge, despite having done the trip before

[Keef]

Brendan Wrote:

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> I normally find that the only thing mention of

> Peckham brings up are Only Fools and Horse

> references.

>

> “Where’ Nelson Mandela House then?”

Bristol.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

There was a Winnie Mandela House next to the Kennedy's sausage factory. Southwark thought it politic to change the name after her penchant for rubber tyres.

[AD]

Mixed ractions.

Commonly, "Where ?" , quite a few "I hear its nice there", the odd "I don't go south of the river" and some " I really like East Dwulich, whats that nice pub called ?"

One friend kept refering to it as Peckham and snyped and then came to ED and really liked it (not saying there isanything wrong with Peckham) , they said lots of places to eat & drink and a good vibe unlike somewhere souless like Canary Wharf, I would rather eat my own feet than live there.

[nashoi]

I live on Marsden Rd which I tell my friends is East Dulwich my enemies it's Peckham and Customs and Revenue it's Monaco, all 3 usually accuse me of lying though.

[oldnewromantic]

I used to live in The Gardens, and cabbies used to say "this is nice for Peckham". Now I live in Nunhead it's "where's that". When I say I live in SE London I get "but there's no tube" to which my response is "I know, bloody marvellous!!" As for describing where Nunhead is, try saying it's wedged between Peckham and New Cross.

[Peckwich]

My close friends will say it's a nice area, nice houses, nice park, they like it and it gives me a nice warm feeling 'cos they approve. Acquaintances go, "ooh-er" and make me think they think I must be getting paid a lot (which really gets my goat as it couldn't be further from the truth. I'm only renting - haven't bought a mansion, Not that ED is full of mansions). Now if an acquaintance asks, I just say I live 'near Honor Oak' and they quickly lose interest (as no one knows where it is).

When I lived in Peckham the general reaction would be, "I have a friend who lives there", nine times out of ten.

[Moos]

"Some of my closest friends live in Peckham". Tee hee!

[????]

My old mates from West Ham say, "What the fack u doin' in bandit country?".

edited to the true vernacular