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Interesting POV! I live in Walthamstow and consider it very much part of London, but then I've always thought of the city as a fairly nebulous collection of enclaves.
I have an infuriating acquaintance who insists in living in central Manchester, she's dead against what she calls the suburbs. Nice little areas on the edge of the city centre that have students, pubs and cafes instead of workers, clubs and bars. More for your money too. But nope, to her Manchester is whatever you can see if you stand in the middle of it. That's a town to me, a 'city' is a more expansive, less definable entity.
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my mate did exactly the same thing as you and moved to hitchin. bought a 3 bed place near the station.
that's my point though, it takes him the same time to get into central london as it does my mates living in and around the leytonstone area who have to walk to catch a bus to catch a tube etc etc, but who are paying big $$$ to live in 'london'. i'm not knocking it. to me living in london means being near the central areas, being close to the tube and easy access to get to work. i'm lucky enough to have lived in tower hill, russell sq and finsbury park. now i've moved 'out' to walthamstow and like it, but to me it's not 'london', its more an outer suburb that allows me the opportunity to catch a quick tube into central london and i can cycle to work. those are the main reasons i live there really.