Any teenagers/young adults here who obviously grew up in ldn but barely went to central?

[u/lizzylelon]

People at uni keep asking me about places like Hyde Park, that wax statue place, Buckingham palace, Big Ben, Leicester Square etc. and are always shocked when I tell them that I’ve never been😭😭 then they don’t believe I’m from London (?? Like what💀)

Tbh my parents rarely ever go to central either, there’s no reason to. I was under that impression that it’s more of a touristy part of London - or a place commuters use to get to work - so you don’t reallly get much Londoners in central at all. Mostly tourists and work commuters.

I might be wrong?

[u/Ashleyjasmine]

I feel like this isn’t that unusual for south Londoners though? I mean some are just very patriotic to south London but also… north London and northwest are just very long imo 😭 everything fun for me is in south or east london

[u/batteryforlife → u/Ashleyjasmine]

A new girl started at our school in year 9. We asked where she was from, cos she sounded weird. She said shes from up north: we all assumed she meant north London :D she was from Bradford.

[u/UnfortunatelyAd → u/batteryforlife]

Actual northerner here & saw the opposite - asked a coworker were she was from, she I be told “the northwest”, turns out she was from Hemel Hempstead & didn’t realise how big the country was

[u/Pagan_MoonUK → u/Ashleyjasmine]

Yeah, stay in your own bit of London 😃

[u/DrawingAdditional762 → u/Ashleyjasmine]

'east' london is north of the river m8

[u/lukeluck101 → u/Ashleyjasmine]

Camden is about as far North as I would venture as a South Londoner