Had an interesting debate with some colleagues earlier, my work takes me about the place but I met some engineers who are all from Liverpool, they picked up on my accent quickly and were trying to decipher where in the City I'm from. I've not lived in Liverpool since I was a kid, and my formative years were spent in Wavertree, with small spells in Croxteth and Speke before we moved south into Cheshire. My Ma is from Halewood, which they were aligned in saying makes her a wool and posh. They told me I had a weird posh/scouse/wirrall (never lived there) accent hybrid, which is news to me and not how I often think about being perceived.
We ended up talking about what's still considered 'Scouse,' in the modern context. For me, it's always been the City Boundary and a few of the linked outlying areas - I've always considered my parents Scouse despite being from Halewood. I'd always said as far North as Fazakerley, east to Huyton, West to the river and South to Garston area. Interested to know thought and any historical context anyone could offer. It's quite important to me and my identity that I'm Scouse, that's what I consider myself even though I left the City aged 11 and am now nearly 30.