FabSwingers.com forum: Proposed changes to areas/regions UK

By *j_mark OP Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

We're proposing changing the postcode/regions to the following.

Main changes are:

* "East Anglia" introduced and areas like Norwich listed under that rather than East Midlands!

* "North" introduced and places like Huddersfield moved from North West to North (often got lost), Sheffield from East Midlands to North

* East/West Midlands now just Midlands.

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JE Channel Islands

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CF Wales

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By *elleCouple
over a year ago

south-west corner of outer london

Hiya - would have thought that TW ought to be London rather than South East (given you can get to it on the tube, for example)?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up in the KT postcode which stretches from Kingston (obviously, lol) to where I live (outside the M25) which is classed as South East and certainly not London , but I guess there will be lots of areas which cross borders.

Maybe you could keep the Greater London section you had as well as London? Not overly worried and think the Midlands and further north will certainly be improved (as far as I know anyway!)

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

rather than calling that bunch of postcodes "north".. wouldn't it be easier to just call those ones "yorkshire" (people on humberside won't mind... they use to be yorkies once!!!)

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

you might get an arguement over the TD postcode by the way.... a lot of it is north northumberland i.e berwick

some of it is england and some of it is scotland.......

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By *eviousLiasonsCouple
over a year ago

Travelling

hmmmmmm We can see where some people will see an improvement and some will prefer the existing groupings. Maybe users could create a custom seach cluster? As an example for us... PE & NR are going to be East Anglia, LN & DN will be North and NG will be Midlands... all of which are close to us. So we would create our own search grouping... allowing us to do local searches in one hit rather than as 5 seperate searches?

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By (user no longer on site)
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Im just glad we won't be East Midlands now

Nothing against East Midlands but its fooking miles away from where I live

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

" hmmmmmm We can see where some people will see an improvement and some will prefer the existing groupings. Maybe users could create a custom seach cluster? As an example for us... PE & NR are going to be East Anglia, LN & DN will be North and NG will be Midlands... all of which are close to us. So we would create our own search grouping... allowing us to do local searches in one hit rather than as 5 seperate searches?"

actually you have a good point there... just had a look at where I use to live, which was RM.....

so for the purposes of a search it would be london, but the closest 2 are SS which would be classed as South East, and CM would would be classed as East Anglia

so the 5 postcode search might be a good idea

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm glad I live in a tiny village!

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By *j_mark OP Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"rather than calling that bunch of postcodes "north".. wouldn't it be easier to just call those ones "yorkshire" (people on humberside won't mind... they use to be yorkies once!!!) "

Some of the "North" postcodes cross county borders e.g. some of DN are in Lincolnshire and some of S are in Derbyshire so it can't be classified as Yorkshire.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

wish you would put spain as an option,have put we live in benidorm,spain but still get people asking us "what part of the NW do you live"

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By *eclan_and_AimeeCouple
over a year ago

dunblane, stirling

"I'm glad I live in a tiny village!

I was just gonna say that Laine! We don't have to worry about what group we're in anyway because we haven't been sectioned!?

... Well, most of us haven't!

lol

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By *eclan_and_AimeeCouple
over a year ago

dunblane, stirling

Ohhh! My smileys went wonky there. That's no right

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Big yes from us in NR!

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By *riapus4uMan
over a year ago

Charlestown, Cornwall

"Im just glad we won't be East Midlands now

Nothing against East Midlands but its fooking miles away from where I live

I'm sure you hav'nt, but at the moment it includes places like Clacton on Sea!!!

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By *riapus4uMan
over a year ago

Charlestown, Cornwall

I think it is a great idea to do someting about the regions because the present system is deeply flawed. I would like to be able to ceate a 'cluster' around your own postcode so surrounding countys can be covered, so in my case I am NG, so I would add: LN,LE,DE & South Yorkshire-whatever postcode that is!. So being able to add up to 4 or 5 other postcodes to create your own 'cluster' woul be ideal.

Oh, & for all the jokers on here (& there are many!) I think we know the joke about 'adding lustre to your cluster'

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By *riapus4uMan
over a year ago

Charlestown, Cornwall

"rather than calling that bunch of postcodes "north".. wouldn't it be easier to just call those ones "yorkshire" (people on humberside won't mind... they use to be yorkies once!!!)

Some of the "North" postcodes cross county borders e.g. some of DN are in Lincolnshire and some of S are in Derbyshire so it can't be classified as Yorkshire.

Admin x"

Thats true.

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By *riapus4uMan
over a year ago

Charlestown, Cornwall

"Im just glad we won't be East Midlands now

Nothing against East Midlands but its fooking miles away from where I live

I wish it was'nt miles away, looking at your pics I wish it was in the next county to mine!!.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Please can we have East Anglia, this is even more relevant after the changes to the meets and events tab!

Thanks

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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago

Back of Beyond

Is there any more movement on these changes? The north(yorkshire) idea is good, we find we are trawling east midlands for people in our catchment area!

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By *-and-KCouple
over a year ago

Back of Beyond

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By *im53Man
over a year ago

Boldon

seperating north and north east is good as at the moment in search in north east i get some that are round manchester area,

most deffinatly not north east

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think Wales needs dividing into north and south for some of the searches and the LL postcode needs splitting into east and west. I live closer to Hull than some places in my own postcode. Although alround a system that looked at distance rather than area would be best.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We're proposing changing the postcode/regions to the following.

Main changes are:

* "East Anglia" introduced and areas like Norwich listed under that rather than East Midlands!

* "North" introduced and places like Huddersfield moved from North West to North (often got lost), Sheffield from East Midlands to North

* East/West Midlands now just Midlands.

Have a look below to see if you think this makes more sense comments here please

GY Channel Islands

JE Channel Islands

CB East Anglia

CM East Anglia

CO East Anglia

IP East Anglia

NR East Anglia

PE East Anglia

AL London

BR London

E London

EC London

EN London

HA London

IG London

KT London

N London

NW London

RM London

SE London

SM London

SW London

W London

WC London

B Midlands

CV Midlands

DE Midlands

DY Midlands

HR Midlands

LE Midlands

LN Midlands

NG Midlands

NN Midlands

ST Midlands

SY Midlands

TF Midlands

WR Midlands

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WV Midlands

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WA North West

WN North West

BT Northern Ireland

AB Scotland

DD Scotland

DG Scotland

EH Scotland

FK Scotland

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IV Scotland

KA Scotland

KW Scotland

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ML Scotland

PA Scotland

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CF Wales

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i notice you havent divided northern ireland and the republic of ireland?two seperate countries.fact

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By *j_mark OP Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"i notice you havent divided northern ireland and the republic of ireland?two seperate countries.fact"

These are UK regions which is why we've included Northern Ireland and the BT postcode. Ireland is listed as a seperate country on the site and has its own regions.

Admin x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"[Removed by poster at 04/05/10 20:13:13]"

THEN PLEASE ACCEPT MY APOLOGIES,NOW,HOW ABOUT A N.IRELAND CHAT ROOM?

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By *couple412Man
over a year ago

faversham

While you are looking at the regions...

May I suggest that if possible you find away for people to define what regions they consider to be "local" when it comes to things like "local updates"?

For example, although we are and ME postcode, we are actualy located a lot closer to CT members than most of our fellow ME's!!

It would be very helpful to see the CT updates as we do the ME's.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

it would be gret if you could select multiply postcodes when you are doing a regional search, I'm in the North West which is a pretty big region and I'm only looking to meet people local to me.

Or better still could you do a "distance from me" search...so you could select that you are looking for someone up to 5, 10, 15, 20 etc miles away. That works really well on a diff site I sometimes use.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Looks good to me.

I could never understand why the East Midlands went all the way to Norwich!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

personaly i would love to see a central south region, the south is to large to just have two areas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

East Anglia on the list..... pwease Mr Admin.

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By *obbytupperMan
over a year ago

Menston near Ilkley

You'll never get it perfect from everyones personal perspective but its a definate improvement, thank you for trying!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i am sorry, but East Midlands is huge without it being merged with West Midlands.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

lks grt 2 me. i am in L and im stll in L! nd i gt gzzy rdg all the pst cds. So i dcyd 2 nt gv a fk!

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By *riapus4uMan
over a year ago

Charlestown, Cornwall

"i am sorry, but East Midlands is huge without it being merged with West Midlands.

I agree, the East Midlands group area is far to big at the moment taking in places that are 'so not' in EM like Norwich, Colchester, Peterborough etc. etc. etc..

Having all the county's that constitute the East Midlands lumped in with a new grouping called the 'Midlands' will make an area that is so huge.

Far better to have a tick list of postcode areas you want to 'explore' & only those area's would come up when you open the browse page. That way you could expand your search area to include holiday destinations etc..

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By *pikerubyCouple
over a year ago

bournemouth

I'd agree with having a list of postcodes to choose from, especially for those of us who live on the boarder of two regions.

Also would be helpful when being away.

The regions south west & south east are massive too, so this is a common problem, and short of going to county level will be hard to sort to please everyone!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Absolutely need East Anglia, it's a joke trying to find people in Cambridge and then being given people 3 hours drive away.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

would it not be an idea if you could search by distance from your own postcode. i myself have 4 postcodes i have to search under due to living on the edge of a district.

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

admin,

saw you referenced this year old post in a thread today.. was this what you implemented or were you waiting on more comments before doing so?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would prefer East and West Midlands to stay as they are or you will have an area from Skegness to Shrewsbury. Thats too big an area. Please dont change.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

We live in Worthing, on the South coast, near Brighton, in the SE area which is HUGE. Some parts of the "South East" are 200 miles away from us or a 4hour plus drive....It's a bit big!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

seeing as this was started over a year ago.. maybe they have forgotten about it!! lol... although how anyone thought that Sheffield was in East Midlands is beyond me lol.. and I thought I was rubbish at geography. Sheffield is in South Yorkshire.. so myabe we could have the 4 yorkshire area towns listed in there correct county??

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By *opeye-OliveCouple
over a year ago

worcester

sounds fine, but you'll never please everyone

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By *arrenPeaceMan
over a year ago

lwork in Ibrox live in Ayr

On a possibly related point, would it be possible to add, perhaps by way of a 2 letter code, a region next to peoples' names in the chatroms-makes it easier to see if you might want to look at their profile as they are local, rather than clicking on it and seeing they are 400 miles away.

Not usually a problem in the Scotland room I know but in busy directing rooms it could be a boon.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

Dunno why they can't just have 'Yorkshire and Humberside' like just about every other website out there.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know this is an old thread but please can we have an East Anglia. Pleaseeeeeeeee!

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By *eviousLiasonsCouple
over a year ago

Travelling

"I know this is an old thread but please can we have an East Anglia. Pleaseeeeeeeee!"

If you use the advanced search you can create your own personal set of postcodes, we use PE, LN and NG, but for yourself you could select NR and IP.

We feel this is far better than preselcted regions, as that way you will always get people that are on the edge of two regions. This way you can customise your searches to exactly what you want.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

North East Wales has the postcode CH which comes under North West which covers up to Cumbria. Makes it quite difficult setting up meets.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Was shocked when i saw sheffield in the East Midlands!! Yorkshire is North!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would it be so difficult to list the searches by county.

Surely everyone knows which county they are in, and what counties surround it.

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By *j_mark OP Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Totteridge/Whetstone

"Would it be so difficult to list the searches by county.

Surely everyone knows which county they are in, and what counties surround it."

Just a quick update on this. It has effectively been surpassed by the new work we've done on postcodes. At some point in the near future searches will be proximity-based, e.g. within 20 miles of NN1 might be a search.

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By *ayne n JockCouple
over a year ago

Dunfermline

I think that's handy being able to search in distance but could we not just have regions instead of post codes? I don't know all the postcodes around me anyway ;-(

I am in FIFE Scotland but would like to search for example: tayside / edinburgh & Lothians / central BUT DO NOT WANT TO SEARCH FIFE as want to meet outwith area I stay.

You could always have a click box to include or exclude your own region

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think you should keep east and west midlands seperate. Places like Nottingham and Leicester are quite a distance from Birmingham. At least if it says West Midlands on a profile then I know that they are fairly local.

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By *uby In StockingsTV/TS
over a year ago

Cheadle

I don't think you should split the current areas any further, where will it end???, I suspect some people will only be happy if they get a room just for their street as it appears lots of them are not willing to go more than a hundred yards for a meeting, lol.

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