Surrey - Home to Britian's Most Prestigious Professionals and Executives

[PST7777]

Surrey has everything a woman of a certain class could ask for. Surrey is home to the top private primary schools in Britain, beautiful golf and tennis clubs, riding facilities, forests, hills, superb shopping in towns like Guildford, Godalming and Dorking, haute cuisine dining in restaurants for every taste, quick and easy train access to the City, Holborn, Bloomsbury or Harley Street if DH is employed in finance, the bar, academia or medicine. Simply paradise. I couldn't imagine why any woman who has been blessed with bounty could want to reside anywhere else.

[Paschaelina]

Dorking - Gateway to Heaven!

Doesn't everybody know that?

[HattiFattner]

there are plenty of twunts here too...usually those who think they are better than the rest of us because they have a banker/lawyer/doctor husband.

The rest of us poor souls manage somehow to have an identity separate to our husbands career and to enjoy pursuits other than shopping and tennis and horses.

Amazing!

[bamboobutton]

agree with hattifattner.

lived there for 2 horrible years and got tired of looking up peoples nostrils.

so glad we left

[PST7777]

I was just merely trying to establish that the county is populated largely by people of a certain social class: namely, what sociologists now term, upper middle class. The men and women who work in the fields of: Business Finance/Law/Academia and Medicinethe four main upper middle class occupational pursuits are the typical sort you would find in the County of Surreymore so than in any of the other Home Counties. I think statistics would bear that out, so i needn't bore you with empirical data. Yes, Surrey is a lovely place.

[HattiFattner]

Just because some uppermiddle class people live in SUrrey, doesnt mean its "Largely populated" by the four professions you list.

There are many areas of Surrey that are socially deprived. Your sweeping generalisations are just that - I would imagine that the vast majority of people living in Surrey are just a normal mix - just because the peons are not members of the country club, doesnt mean they dont exist.

In my area, its very mixed - council estate, children living in poverty, lots of working class folk mixing with middle class folk. professional but lower paid people like radiologists, nurses, teachers, scientists, paramedics.

A place populated by lawyers and academics and bankers......sounds lovely.

[Itsjustafleshwound]

And your reason for posting ????

[ChutesTooNarrow]

You are aware the lower classes populate Surrey as well? Lots and lots of them. There are large council estates near the state secondary school I went to in Surrey.

[WizardofOs]

I live in a small Surrey town and it is socially mixed. For every Weybridge there is an Addlestone.

[PST7777]

Northeastern Surrey and Soutwest Surrey are like night and day. Yes, I'm aware that the Croydon's of this world do exist, and there's a lot of tacky new money within the stockbroker M25 beltway towns, but the remainder of Surrey is just as I describe it.

[thestringcheeseincident]

Oh for goodness sake, I live in Weybridge and it's lovely but not everyone is running around in furs and jimmy choos.

[Paschaelina]

They are in Dorking, thestringcheeseincident

(disclaimer - i've never been to Dorking)

(Or Surrey actually)

[CointreauVersial]

Another yay for Dorking!

Of course there are less privileged lower-class areas of Surrey. Where else will all the people who clean the posh houses and sweep the tennis courts live?

[BeattieBow]

MIght be lovely, but as dull as ditchwater imo. Give me Camden and it's lefty guardian reading liberals any day.

[CointreauVersial]

Cheesestring - everyone in Weybridge has hocked their furs and Jimmy Choos so they could pay for their houses.

[ArmchairFeminist]

You don't have to be a wanker to live in Surrey.

















But it helps.

[ChutesTooNarrow]

Well if you mean places like Haslemere, which you were harping on about poetically the other day, then I tend to disagree. Having had the misfortune pleasure of living there I can confirm it is far from being an idyllic paradise and does indeed contain pockets of social deprivation as well as a lot of very normal and happy to be average people.

[SybilBeddows]

is academia an upper middle class pursuit, really? Pity the salary won't buy you an upper middle class lifestyle!

[Pendeen]

I'm sure the beaches, countryside, coast, cliffs, sea air and clear light in Surrey is just as good as Cornwall.....

:)

[lawnimp]

they obviously haven't seen radlett

[AuntieMonica]

how very 'naice'

i had a boss once who was born in Ashtead, she was a right cow an interesting character, into swinging and her adult DS ran an 'Adult Shop'

no wonder she moved eh?

[whataloadoftwaddle]

PST7777 - plenty of lower middle class there too. I'd imagine that upper middle class women would find the speculation horribly vulgar.

[Cocoflower]

Depends if your on the stockbrokers belt or not.

[SkelleyBones]

Does it have a fringe on top ?

[noddyholder]

God I would feel like I had died and gone to hell if I woke up in Surrey My parents used to live in Oxshott and it is dullsville.