Clapham

English law still measures the ordinary reasonable person by the man on the Clapham omnibus, a standard set long before that person needed a flatshare and a guarantor to live here. Clapham is where a certain kind of graduate goes to be young a bit more expensively than necessary: on the Common on Sunday, crammed onto the Northern line by Monday. Even the most famous station with its name on it is in Battersea, a mix-up Clapham has never once felt the need to correct.