Northwood, London

Northwood is the part of London that would quite like you to think it's Hertfordshire, and since half the town technically is, nobody has the nerve to correct it. Military planners run overseas operations from bunkers under Eastbury Park, a retirement home for actors handles the theatrics, and everyone else saves their outrage for the neighbour's planning application. People buy here for the Metropolitan line and a driveway with gates, then spend years insisting to friends in Zone 2 that it still counts as London.