1. In your eyes, there are two types of London: the London where you grew up and "touristy London", where people pay £20 to ride a massive ferris wheel.
2. Your true south London background comes out whenever you tell someone you're from "souf" London.
3. Or when you're given the opportunity to rep where you're from.
4. If your postcode didn't have "SE" in it, you were regularly accused of not actually being from London.
5. And if you were from Bromley, you didn't know whether to say you were from southeast London or Kent.
6. There are plenty of things you recognise as only being possible in southeast London.
Myles: "Deptford is cool, it's like the Shoreditch of south east London." Are you sure Myles? ARE YOU SURE?????
7. You've probably been waiting for a tube station to be built in your area for years.
8. You get extremely irritated when someone claims you live "so far away" when you live in zone 3 or 4.
9. You remember when the Cutty Sark was out in the open and readily available to the public (before it got burned down in a terrible fire).
10. Although London is a very big place, you're still convinced that south London is the centre of it all.
South London is the capital of London.
GMT means Greenwich Mean Time means southeast London means centre of the universe.
11. You remember when Peckham wasn't "hip" and "cool" like it is now.
12. And when Lewisham's "Model Market" was actually the "Black Market".
13. You hated getting the night bus because it meant committing to 60-90 minutes' worth of extreme exhaustion, agony, and regret.
14. And you knew not to sit on the top deck of the bus at peak "end of school" time.
#GrowingUpInLondon "seats are available on the upper deck"
It's just not worth the hassle, nor the headache.
15. Although there's every chance you've been on a Southeastern train to or from Sevenoaks, you've never actually been to Sevenoaks.
16. You've experienced the cramped and sweaty pleasure of raving in Venue.
17. And if not there, then Tiger Tiger in Croydon, which was basically on the other side of the world.
18. You remember the hysteria surrounding the 11-plus tests and the fight to get into a decent secondary school.
19. You've battled the blistering cold to get to Blackheath Fireworks at least once.
#BlackheathFireworks last night:
And ended up walking a few miles for 10 minutes' worth of sparkles.
20. There is no doubt in your mind that Morley's is the best chicken and chip shop on the planet.
MORLEY'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And you remember when six wings and chips would cost you a mere pound.
21. You've seen this sign multiple times.
22. And you know exactly what "Blue Borough" refers to.
Lol welcome to lewisham
If you saw the blue bins and blue signs, you knew you were in Lewisham.
23. No matter what event it is, whenever someone asks which Londoners are in the building, south Londoners' cheers are always the loudest.
24. Because sure, southeast London may be a little bit shit, and it's definitely not as "cool" as east London, but it's home.
