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how many of you are born and bred londoners?
i only ask because my daughter said an odd thing last night - she'd been described as a "unicorn" by someone she met. when asked what she meant, this girl said "i was told i'd probably never meet a real londoner, someone who's born and bred here - they're mythical..."
when i heard that i laughed and said "what nonsense", but the more i thought about it the more i realised that everyone i know was indeed born elsewhere. even at art school there were only two other londoners on the course.
i've never noticed before.
- A young Londoner who works at the studios here said much the same thing to me quite recently - she felt like she was a total minority.Nairn
- surely all the people now living in London having children will produce born-n-bred Londoners? Same as ever.Fax_Benson
- I'm sure there's been a demographic change in terms of 'traditional' Londoners moving out to Essex and Kent. But where did they come from?Fax_Benson
- I meant 'minority' in the numerative sense, not an ethnic one. I just realised this when I was outside, hacing a quick cig.Nairn
- Got stuck on the tube one evening in 2005 for an hour, Australian lad (drinking Fosters FFS) hypothesises loudly "Nobodies talking because they think...kingsteven
- they're the only one not from London" ... "but i'm not sure anyone here's from London". he went round the entire carriage asking folks, not one person even fromkingsteven
- England... conversations all over the place after that, not sure he was entirely right but an eye opener all the same.kingsteven
- depends where you are and what you're doing I guess.Fax_Benson
- Only got to know a few Londoners the 4 years I was there tbh.kingsteven
- Met a born and bread Londoner years ago, when I was in my 20's. His family had left London, hated it, changed too much. That was 20 years ago.shapesalad
- The only born&bred Ldn'r I met and befriended in 13y of living in LDN, emigrated to Australia.shapesalad
- When I used dating websites years ago, I was a rare find in LDN apparently, because I was English.shapesalad
- It is what it is, LDN. I still don't get it. Miserable weather, pollution, crime, expense, over crowded and half the world(3rd) wants to move there.shapesalad
- so often the case - most of my daughters' friends (from when they were younger )moved out to the home counties and beyond for schools and such.hans_glib
- what are you now?Fax_Benson
- one family told me they had had enough of hearing police helicopters all the time... :/hans_glib
- i'm not talking about english, just london. the guy who cuts my hair is a londoner, born and bred. his dad came over from cyprus, but he's stayed here, had kidshans_glib
- My wife was born in London, her dad lived in South London, left as it was a shithole where they lived. Loads of family still there though.PhanLo
- They say the same thing about Torontonians, and then you meet one. Not so mythical.ben_
- The only two people I'm close to beyond bloody foreigners here are both LDN born and bred; both have ambitions to leave over the next couple of yearsNairn
- Father was from South london, Mother was from Sussex, grew up within the M25 and live in South London. Its been a heart breaking change this past 10 years. I'mmugwart
- having to move out like all the other 'cunts'mugwart
- brouch this subject (like tube) and you get a "you a racist father" (father ted) look.
I can't even remember the last time I heard a cockney accentmugwart - its sad the change, while I'm not a right wing racist (my kid is mixed) but all that culture that has accumulated pre roman is all gone in a generation.mugwart
- old streets/pubs/record shops (aka soho) all gone to fucking cooperate endeavors.
Generations of families no longer thanks to overpriced rent.mugwart - Born in Brompton...lived in Raynes Park, E&C and North Finchley.see_thru
- ...and when I went to uni in the 90's, everyone else seemed to be either Welsh or from Gateshead.see_thru