Are You A Post Code Snob?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26367320

[jno]

my sister lives in one county and has a postcode in another, which seems a little odd. She's not fussed, but the coding seems rather random at times.

[pixie373]

I suppose it could help with GP and school choices. But I'm sure insurance premiums would be altered to reflect the "new postcode". I can't really see any other reason why it would matter.

[heathfield]

I'm happy with the one I've got, and so are my car insurers. I'm considered to be in a low risk area for theft and damage!

[sp1814]

TTT

Absolutely.

I used to live near Peckham, which I always thought was grim, but New Cross which is one post code away, I always thought of as 'asperational'.

Effectively, the only real difference between the two areas was that one had a train line which would take you to London Bridge in under 10 minutes.

I feel the same about Bethnal Green (lived there, loved it) and Hackey (lived there, hated it).

Out of pure snobbery, nothing else.

[pixie373]

There's nothing to be snobby about. Changing your postcode doesn't change where you live.

[Ken4155]

I was decorating at a very large house, recently, which had two 'front' doors and 2 different post codes! Though the family came and went by the door with the post code that denoted a rough area of town, they had their mail delivered to the address bearing the posher post code.

[LazyGun]

No, could not care less, in truth :) Of all the things in the world sent to try my patience, this is not one of them.

[BlueToffee]

Until I read the article I hadn't realised that there was any snobbery related to post codes.

[joggerjayne]

Slightly tricky.

One shares one's BN2 postcode with an area described by Wikipedia as "one of the most deprived places in Britain". As do the very middle class residents of Rottingdean.

So, on the whole, one tries not to mention one's postcode.

I suppose it could be worse. BN1 takes in the bandit country of the London Road, and the wilds beyond the A27. If I lived in BN1 I would have to be a student, a gangster, or Polish. At least living in BN2, everyone just assumes I'm a lesbian.

If I was a postcode snob, I'd move down the road to Hove, and get myself a nice, middle class BN3. When I'm ready to wear beige clothes and shop at Marks and Spencer, then I'll move to BN3 (ha ha, not really ... I would NEVER move to BN3 ... they would have to drag me there in a bath chair!).

[stewey]

I'm so snobbish I have my own postal code. Well, I actually share it with the rest of the people living in the condo.. If I were to post it (pun!) on here you'd know exactly, not approximately, where I live.

[pixie373]

Who is it, though, Steve, that you don't want to associate it with you?

[boxtops]

Ahem, JJ - I used to live in BN2..... you just mentioned the village :-)

[2sp_]

I have the same postcode as about 40 other houses nearby. Some are mansions, some are pokey little one bedroom chalet type homes.

Folk will find the most ridiculous ways to feel superior to others.

[237SJ]

No but some people are. My sister`s rather wealthy ex-boss lives in Marlow and hates the fact that he has a Slough postcode. I remember there was also a lot of snobbery about the old 071/081 phone codes in London.

[joggerjayne]

Boxy, BN2 is naturally the best postcode on the south coast.

[2sp_]

At times I hate having my postcode only because some companies think I live on the moon and should be charged ridiculous postage.

(I don't live on the moon, btw.)

[boxtops]

I have to agree with you - and I was still BN2 when I moved up the road inland a bit :-)

A friend of mine was miffed many years ago when he moved to Cheam, and found it had a Sutton postcode - I'd forgotten about that.

[DTCwordfan]

Only post code around here is PQ7 5AM - Pigs Quarters 75 of the porkers.