For every Londoner, postal districts have not only a geographical meaning but a social and economic one as well. For example, NW3 stands for “North West Three,” meaning that it is in northwest London—specifically, Hampstead. It is the haunt of rich intellectuals, media types, and doctors; Sigmund Freud died there, Keats wrote “Ode to a Nightingale” there, and both their houses are now museum-shrines.
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