@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:How long before I'm South and you're West London?
Judging by the rate at which Estuary is spreading, I should say about six months. Admittedly vast chunks of the Home Counties got swallowed in 1965, so that Croydon, Bromley, etc got swallowed, Oddly Kingston upon Thames is still the county town of Surrey despite being in the LB of Kingston. (I think). Update, it's Guildford, but the County Hall is in Kingston. I think that makes Surrey unique in having its county council sit outside the county. So maybe my dad had a point.
Incidentally, in the latest series of Fargo, there is a British character played by David Thewlis, and I have commented on how weird I thought his accent was, like it was meant to be what Yanks think non-posh Brits talk like. I read a review the other day which said his accent was so spot-on North London that you could almost tell which street in East Finchley it comes from. I grew up in Dulwich/Streatham, and went out with a girl from East Finchley, and believe me I never heard anyone from round there talk like that. The consonants are a bit like a hyper Dot Cotton. What do you think?