To think Surrey is the most boring place on earth?

At least Surrey isn't grim like it is Up North.

Surrey and Essex will always attract strong opinions from people...

I suspect so long as you avoid the bits of Surrey that are regularly recommended as being excellent for access to particular schools, you will avoid most of the identikit bores who lack the imagination to consider elsewhere. Not that this means you will find somewhere delightful to live, of course, but you might find a bit more variety in the people!

Probably from Surrey

Nowt nor summation? Predictive text clearly doesn’t recognise northern dialects

I love Shropshire it is beautiful. But it is proper rural. Surrey is neither nowt nor summation which is the real problem with it I think.

Come to Bedfordshire. We feature regularly on police 24 hours .........not boring....more like fucking Game of Thrones.

A former colleague moved to Lincolnshire. She called it 'God's waiting room.'

These threads appear regularly for a reason. My parents for some reason moved us to Guildford when I was 8 years old. It was an incredibly dull place to grow up. Honestly the Spectrum centre, Downs, High Street and some twee villages nearby does not make it vibrant. You have to travel to London for any real excitment or culture (but hey- great transport links)!
I got out as soon as I could moved around and have lived for over 18 years in an amazing northern city. DD born here and has never lived anywhere else. I travel down a lot to see family and friends and it is painful. The obsession with house prices, appearances and private education is constant. Every time I meet up with some of their friends I constantly get patronised because why would anyone choose to live in the north except for house prices being cheap? Apart from the fact that actually living a thriving city means this is not true. We have world renound opera, ballet and several theatres on the doorstep. These are all cheap taxi ride into town and there are loads of shops, clubs, restaurants, bars, sport centres. Then there is world famous countryside within 30 mins.
I am living in the biggest law and banking centre outside of London and there are 3 universities, one Russel Group, the other two experts in certain fields.
Yet go to bloody Guildford, God-dam-awfulming etc and apparently we have it worse.DD is treated like an urchin because she has a northern accent and not at Tormead or Guildford High. She is obviously not going to go far in life . As it happens she is getting the same grades in her state school as those we know and is a happy, accomplished tween who has far better social skills than any Surrey tween I have ever met .
In essance we are happier and winning at life, despite being suddenly widowed and DD having to cope with losing her dad at 8 years old. Everyone living in Surrey will jump on this and say how amazing surrey is. It is fine if you like that sort of thing but it will never be exciting or multicultural. That is some people want, with good transport links.

Lincolnshire people are terminally apathetic, which is the reason I have never lived anywhere else.

Years ago I worked in central london with an old guy who said he "come up from Surrey". He meant Bermondsey (a pp mentioned about the original Surrey border, just backing it up).
Is Kew gardens in Surrey? If so it's infinitely better than lots of other counties.

I found the OP funny. My parents have a house in Surrey from when they used to commute into the city And, yes, I've always found it incredibly dull and full of people who (if you didn't already know where they lived) would claim it was either "London" or "The county". I did find it very boring there, and I'm from Shropshire (the beautiful county full of nothing!)

@DontCallMeCharlotte Was thrilled to see today Farthing Downs are to be given protected status insidecroydon.com/2019/04/06/happy-valley-to-be-granted-national-nature-reserve-status/ by the City of London Corp

I live in Kingston upon Thames and thought I lived in Surrey so this is very illuminating

Kingston is a Surrey address.

Only in name, it’s now Greater London.

Definitely Lincolnshire.
Mile after mile of fuck all.
Lincolnshire people are terminally apathetic, which is the reason I have never lived anywhere else.
Also the natives are the most unfriendly people on earth, we are proud of this.
I am fortunate though, I don’t live in the fens.

Michael Gove was my MP when I lived in Surrey. Needless to say I didn’t and couldn’t, vote for him. Our little village was quite nice, but public transport was poor and traffic awful.

I worked in Addlestone for a number of years. Not a place I would choose to live, but still expensive. Guildford is lovely and the Surrey Hills area is too.

We’re now near the sea in West Sussex. Good pointsand bad points, but the good outweigh the bad atthe moment. Chichester is a pretty town, but has lost so many shops in the last few years.

I agree

Although I live in Kent so automatically have a hatred of all things Surrey

Quite a few commons and woods outside the city are owned and managed by the Corporation of London: www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do/green-spaces/city-commons/Pages/City-Commons.aspx

Raspberry10 And just to further muddy the waters, Couldson Common comes under the jurisdiction of the City of London...

Stand down heath - it wasn't your comment I was talking about!

Ok......

Many times I have whiled away an hour laughing at a “where is Kingston” thread. This one hasn’t gone off quite as I’d hoped though.

I guess everyone needs a hobby.

Richmond is in Surrey

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Like anywhere if you don’t find like minded people the area can be dull. I was born in Surrey and live here again. Love the countryside and love getting into london easily for work, shopping and culture. I certainly don’t wear head to toe Joules or Boden, nor do my friends. I work in finance but sure as hell don’t spend my free time talking about work.
Going to other areas I do try and look for the positives rather than just slag them off..

Yeah, super dull. But there are nice hills for cycling and cool MTB trails.

@Raspberry10 - Caterham is Surrey.... you pay your council tax to Tandridge Council which is under Surrey CC if you live there. So you are good on that one!

Hampstead is however probably the most boring bit of Camden... so OP I am not sure you are as interesting as you think you are?

I lived in Surrey for 15 years, it's ok, its much of a muchness when you leave central London and go into the outer/greater boroughs and home counties... they are all the same, they all have massive superstore foodshops, all have ring roads that are crap at rush hour, all seem to have a pets at home ..... I live in another home county now... feels the same as when I lived in Surrey, or Bromley!