Here…
Still a long way from where I live . Just looked up SW 24 and its Bordeaux far too posh for me.I live in 36 Indre ,mostly rural and one of the poorest areas in France
I’m a French person so SW 24 is Dordogne. Bordeaux is 33. I grew up in 83 and 06, on the South East coast (of France). We learn the département numbers when we are little.
Sorry for assuming you’d know I meant France, it seemed logical to me 
I have no idea how (or why) they might speak French on the south coast of the UK or on Streatham Hill wherever that is.
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There are quite a lot of English residents posting on this site also quite a lot of expats and sometimes the assumption of postcodes means something to some of us English , a post code in England takes you to quite a small area and if you have a number of a house eg, 2 Streatham hill almost to the door, whereas here in France it refers to a very much larger area , so not your fault just me with my English brain engaged. Streatham Hill is quite a nice area of London in the borough of Lambeth SW 24 which is a area of the capital. Edit: the chances of finding French speaking or any other EU language in general in the UK is quite small.
I live in N24 and knew exactly what @vero meant and was only going to remark that it was the first time here that I was described as living oop north. 
A bit like when I lived in Nottingham and hearing southerners say much the same. 
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That was my little joke as a person from the coast of the far SE (“mais tu vas avoir froid là-haut!” said various people from chez moi, when I said I was moving here).
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It was a shock when we first moved here (SW France) and discovered that it sometimes snowed in winter! We thought we’d moved to “The South of France”. We now know much better. 
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One Easter when I arrived at my usual South of France campsite the camp reception was full of lovely big photos of the area under about 30cm of snow. They were surprised by quite how much it has snowed by the Med that year.
Well, my experience of a week or so ago disproves that ‘rule’.
We were in London’s fashionable West End, having travelled in on the bus from my stepson’s place in Camberwell. On two occasions we were followed by different French couples conversing to each other.
We went to a theatre matinée & before the show the couple in front of us were speaking to their clearly bi-lingual young son in both French (her) & English (him).
In the packed rush hour bus home we were standing next to a couple talking very clear French, which was quite amusing as they had no way of knowing that I could understand them 
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I have had similar experiences. My daughter works in Canary Wharf and I’m surprised by the number of young Europeans I’ve seen on the public transport there giving the impression of being resident rather than on holiday. One Dutch woman held a non stop conversation in both English and Dutch with her toddler which was a delight to hear. The little one seemed to randomly choose which language to use next.
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Can we keep this thread for the humour, not the discussion.
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Why did the debater bring a ladder?
To reach new heights in their arguments!
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Only if you are under 18… 
My wife, wanting to know a bit more about garden birds, once innocently googled “great tits”.
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…and “great tits” love “fat balls”
As Mike Harding used to joke a Southerner is someone who thinks Northerners say boom for bum 
The next time someone says politeness costs nothing, show them this.
