Attention: Please take a moment to consider our terms and conditions before posting.

Where are you from?

2

Comments

  • stockportaddick
    stockportaddick Posts: 1,128
    Not bad for me, the heat spots on the map were Manchester and Southend. I was brought up in Abbey Wood and moved to Stockport. My accent still has a lot of gawd blimey but with a fair bit of eh oop thrown in for good measure so it was quite accurate
  • Slartibartfast
    Slartibartfast Posts: 1,119
    London and Brighton, interesting as raised in Lewisham but lived in Eastbourne for the last 25 years.
  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Under a gooseberry bush, that's what my mum told me anyway.
  • cabbles
    cabbles Posts: 15,254
    Just Brighton???
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,671
    Gave me Oxford, from East Grinstead so not great
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Says I'm from London / Dover - which is not bad seeing as I was born and bred in SE London, but spent a lot of my childhood in the Kent countryside
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    se9addick said:
    Luton, which is a blow to my self esteem! 
    "Oooooh Tommy Tommy...."
  • ChicagoAddick
    ChicagoAddick Posts: 4,393
    Think my accent has neutralized over the years after being away, so I answered questions on how I would naturally answer them, and it got me spot on.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,018
    Very impressed that the heat-map centred on the town exactly mid-way between where I was brought up and where I live now.

    Rather less impressed with this:



    What on earth are they trying to insinuate?
  • Rufus_Ambition
    Rufus_Ambition Posts: 603
    I got Southend and Brighton. The Southend part makes sense as I'm originally from Essex, but Brighton? Seems a lot of us got Brighton. Well I guess it is "London by the sea".
  • Sponsored links:



  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    I got Dover, which is basically the posh Brighton
  • lancashire lad
    lancashire lad Posts: 15,624
    I got London or Dover, actually a mixture of Grove Park and Tonbridge
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,036
    I got Reading and Cambridge.
    Raised in Slough so quite accurate I suppose.
  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,827
    SE7toSG3 said:
    Spread across the South East for me 
    Sounds like my ex
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,239
    I got between Southend and South London, which I think is fairly accurate seeing as I've lived in South East London and worked in Stratford, Shoreditch and Monument the past 5 years
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,347
    Fucking Uzbekistan!!!!
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,517
    Growing up in SE, living for 20+ years in Scotland, married to an Irishman and with friends and relations all over the place, I can proudly say I broke the programme! Got to the point where it skipped on after my first answer on the multi-choice...so I still don't know where I'm from.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited February 2019
    Came up with Oxford, Cambridge and Reading, whereas it was Cyprus, Germany, Sundridge Park. Army life. 
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,672
    I got London which is accurate, but was amazed by the corridor to Dover.  This obviously pays testament to my annual visit to good old Uncle Harry in Herne Bay.
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    soapy_jones said:
    Fucking Uzbekistan!!!!
    Scuse your Uzbek
  • Sponsored links:



  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    I got London which is accurate, but was amazed by the corridor to Dover.  This obviously pays testament to my annual visit to good old Uncle Harry in Herne Bay.
    I couldn't be arsed to say, but I got exactly the same. London down to Dover.
    Mind I did go to Ramsgate, Westgate, Broadstairs & Margate a few times as a kid :smile:
  • i_b_b_o_r_g
    i_b_b_o_r_g Posts: 18,948
    Covered End said:
    Raith_C_Chattonell said:
    I got London which is accurate, but was amazed by the corridor to Dover.  This obviously pays testament to my annual visit to good old Uncle Harry in Herne Bay.
    I couldn't be arsed to say, but I got exactly the same. London down to Dover.
    Mind I did go to Ramsgate, Westgate, Broadstairs & Margate a few times as a kid :smile:
    Did you mean Ramsgit, Westgit and Margit?
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,127
    Bookends, Pumice Stone and West Germany
  • Aethelstan
    Aethelstan Posts: 542
    I was raised in Weybridge, Surrey. Test using all 100 questions showed me from anywhere in SE England from Ipswich to Portsmouth. 

    But I did a similar, and much shorter,  test very recently. I think it was either on the BBC or the Guardian websites. That pin-pointed me as West London, which I thought was impressive (only 20) miles adrift. And my father had a strong Cockney accent which must have influenced me a lot.

    Anyone else see that test?

  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,780
    It thinks I could have come from anywhere darn from Exeter to Ipswich but I was raised in Greenwich and New Cross Gate.
  • Aethelstan
    Aethelstan Posts: 542
    edited February 2019
    Lincsaddick said:
    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.
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    I've lived in Lewisham my whole life. 

    The three main towns its given me are Brighton, Reading and Norwich, with SE LDN being very dark red. 

    So pretty much spot on.

    The scary thing is that my girlfriend has been living in Norwich the last 2/3 years whilst being at uni there and it seems me visiting her there has translated to my accent already. 
  • aliwibble
    aliwibble Posts: 26,272
    I get Cambridge/Reading/Brighton on the short form, and a spread from Southend to Brighton on the longer version. Given I've lived in London my whole life, it's in the right neck of the woods, but I wouldn't call it accurate.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    Cambridge/Brighton.

    The heat map was scattered around the South East. A large chunk covering Medway and Swale across East Sussex.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    My American wife did it and got Plymouth. Not sure how that works!

Categories

“Marketplace”