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  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,553
    My American wife did it and got Plymouth. Not sure how that works!
    Assume you have never heard of the Mayflower?
  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890

    Bournemouth.

    I'm not.

  • My American wife did it and got Plymouth. Not sure how that works!
    Mayflower pilgrims left from there
  • Got me spot on, Greater Manchester, even having lived in London and Kent for over 40 years now!
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,808
    can access the article and then the 2nd link 'born in the UK' doesn't work ?!?!
  • can access the article and then the 2nd link 'born in the UK' doesn't work ?!?!
    If you have a windows computer you have to open the website in chrome
  • HantsAddick
    HantsAddick Posts: 2,423
    I got Luton, London and Dover. Born and bred in SE London so can't fault it.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    edited February 2019
    me ? .. Lewisham/Blackheath borders 
    In the sixties, when first married, we lived in a block of flats at the top of Lewisham Hill, literally bordering the heath. I think they were council-owned as the rents were damned reasonable. My wife was a middle-class Tory and claimed we lived in Blackheath. I was working-class and a Labour activist. I claimed to live in Lewisham.

    Our neighbour downstairs, a retired solicitor and local historian, told us that the parish boundary ran through our flat and there could be a fault-line running through our double bed.

    I would add that I did not become a Charlton supporter because we moved there. On the contrary, we moved there because I was already an Addick, despite my wife wanting to live nearer Croydon. I am proud to say I rescued her from her Palarse family and she became a keen addick, even to travelling to away reserve games with me. She had the hots for Harry Gregory and Graham Moore.
    I am from the other side of the heath, Quentin Road/Lee Terrace along from the top of Belmont Hill .. Quentin Rd is SE13, Lee Terrace and the next and opposite roads are SE3 .. Mamma (lol) like your wife, always claimed we lived in posh Blackheath despite contrary geographic/borough boundary evidence. Her family were from Deptford and Bermondsey and were Millwall, albeit not fanatically .. my great grandad was a docker who'd retired to a nice Charlton council flat about a 10 minute walk from the Valley, no matter he was Millwall and took me to my first games at the old Den, I must have been about five. 
    Swedish Gaza (a k a @ElfsborgAddick) is from just down the road from me. Be interesting to see what part of the world the AI App decides he is from ((:>)
  • YTS1978
    YTS1978 Posts: 1,700
    Got Reading as the main answer, but two other hot spots around Sussex and Hampshire on the map. Was born in Fareham, grew up in Crawley and have lived in London for near 20yrs. Have been to Reading a few times to see the mighty CAFC and to the festival twice, so obviously picked up a bit of the local slang!
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  • Oh_Yoni_Boy
    Oh_Yoni_Boy Posts: 1,762
    Came out Essex/Brighton... Bromley can be a bit "Essex-y" nowadays but this has come as a bit of a hammer blow.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,343
    Portsmounth and Bath are the two areas named on the map. I'm from Horley originally and grew up between Horley, Crawley and Horsham... So yeah, very inaccurate.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    My American wife did it and got Plymouth. Not sure how that works!
    Probably Plymouth, New Jersey or something. They've nicked all our other place names
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    edited February 2019
    Edit *Plymouth, Massachusetts*
  • ross1
    ross1 Posts: 50,974
    Born and brought up in Charlton, had to be right
  • I grew up in the West Midlands, living with parents and grand parents from South London, but with a bunch of friends from the North East. It didn't have a clue where I was from.
  • Mine was London which is correct
  • DA9
    DA9 Posts: 11,091
    edited February 2019
    Darkest in Laaaannnnnden you slags 

    bit in kent, some weirdly in Norfolk 
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,754
    My American wife did it and got Plymouth. Not sure how that works!
    Assume you have never heard of the Mayflower?
    Don’t think she’s from the 17th century but I can ask!