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May 07, 2003
place names
In SE1, we have a good discussion forum, that's quite popular. Our upmystreet conversations seem to be a bit floundering. I wonder whether it's because we have a placename to unify under - Southwark, rather than something impersonal, and arbitrary (a postcode). The site is called in-SE1, but people using the forum don't use the term.
I think it's also easier to have a community with a boundary. Maybe I don't need to know if a conversation is a mile away, but in E1, SW9, or WC1, or even better, the City, Brixton, or Covent Garden.
The parts of Southwark most mentioned are Bankside, Borough, Bermondsey and Elephant. Some places, like London Bridge, only exist on maps - no one really identifies with them, it's just a convenient term for when describing where you live, and all else fails. Maybe I'm lucky in that there has been a lot of work to create some sort of community (especially in Bankside and Borough) - our community councils have just met for the first time.
So where do you live? Where do you say you live - where do you identify with?
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