To think Surrey is the most boring place on earth?

It's funny how people always feel they can come on here and say things like that about Surrey, when they wouldn't about any other area (other than London)

Of course having seen a small snapshot of probably no more than a couple of days of one village in Surrey they absolutely know everything about Surrey and can comment on that. Everything said above could have been said about my grandparents' village in Lancashire (with the addition they'd have still been referring to the dsis as a "newcomer" 30 years down the line)

I assume the Op has in her time there, to make sure she has a good knowledge of the area before she made her judgement, visited all of the following and more: Guildford, Chessington Theme Park, Heathland Ranges, Wisley Gardens, Surrey Hills: (area of "outstanding natural beauty" (including Devil's Punchbowl)which covers 1/4 of the county), Basingstoke Canal, Woking, Runnymede (where the Magna Carta was signed)….

They all seem to have the same names in Surrey, too - half the men are named Balonz and most of the women are called Data.

Enko she lives in Hampstead not Hampshire.

Much prefer Surrey to Hertfordshire, that is boring and pretty awful.

I’m sorry to say, I have experienced this too bar ‘Surrey’ which is actually London (Croydon etc).

But YABU. I can confirm that the most boring place on Earth is Northamptonshire.

FFS what's with all the Surrey hate on MN? This is hardly the first thread I've seen on the subject and I don't imagine it will be the last.

(Kingston is paradoxically a London Borough as well as the administrative capital of Surrey.)

Whereas Hampstead is soooo diverse and not full of snooty Oxbridge type people...

Its nice to have somewhere to keep all the boring people together though isn't it. Otherwise we might end up somewhere else and make that boring too.

If you had come and said you lived anywhere else but Hampshire I would have perhaps thought I could understand your point OP. However Hampshire and Surrey there is really nothing in it.. Yes I have lived in both places..

In general YABU to think a entire county is all the same..

Additionally why is it a issue if they are happy with their lives?

I live in a posh bit of Surrey. I drove through Addlestone this morning though, it’s important to stay grounded isn’t it.

Kingston is a Surrey address.

Kingston isn’t in Surrey. It’s in a London borough.

I live in Surrey and commute into London. My bit’s not boring and the people are genuine and friendly! Maybe it’s your sister and who she hangs around with?

My brother lives in London. He probably manages to mention this every single time we see him. Now that’s boring...

Go to NW Surrey, it's erm "interesting".

It's increasingly more like an outer London suburb but with utterly shit/non-existent public transport. The poverty is awful living next to people with so much.

Beautiful villages like Chiddingfold and Shere. Historic towns like Guildford & Dorking. Lots of shopping in Kingston on Thames.
Chessington world of Adventures, Thorpe park. Great Theatres in Woking & Guildford. Hampton court Palace (2 minutes walk from cosmopolitan Bridge road in Molesey)
Amazing schools. Tiffin for state, as for Independent schools, RGS,KGS,Hampton,Surbiton High, LEH,Reed's etc etc
Beautiful Newlands Corner, the South Downs. National trust Properties such as Claremont Gardens. Fabulous painshill Park with the gorgeous Santa's Crystal Grotto at Christmas.
30 mins to Waterloo from Woking, 20 mins from Surbiton. So London attractions and Theatres really accessible. 45 mins to the coast.
and sitting between Heathrow and Gatwick, so no more than than 35 minutes & you can be off to sunnier places. Although Surrey is actually quite warm and Sunny compared to the North of the country.
Just a few observations, people can be quite narrow minded without seeing the whole picture

I live in Surrey, some parts are much nicer than others and I have a giggle at some of the "types" that take living in Surrey so seriously. My mum is not a native, she hates it here and finds it unfriendly, but I grew up here and I'm more used to it, I suppose.

I live in the London end but there's real variety through the county. It's not the real country side though, people who think Surrey is proper country are a bit deluded.

Too much traffic, too many people, too manicured.

Hampstead is horribly dull, IMO. A bit like Surrey. Just with better shops.

@Cranky17 you beat me too it

Surrey covers a large and diverse area...

I always say "I'm from Surrey but not the nice green leafy bit"

I used to live in Hampstead... it’s not quite the same, OP

Every county has it’s boring parts. I live in the Surrey Hills, it’s definitely not boring here, it’s absolutely beautiful, so wonderful that it was designated an AONB, Surrey is England's most wooded county, so I think I can safely say I live in the countryside we have wonderful neighbours and real sense of community, I don’t know anyone who ‘keeps up with the joneses’.

As a family we go horse riding, mountain biking, running in the forest, go for lovely walks with the dogs to our many gorgeous country pubs, there is so much to do and it’s never ‘boring’.

I do work in finance in the city though

Which county do you live in?

It's always smaller towns and villages near a bigger city

Amen to this. I’ve been living in one for a few years and it’s dire. People rave about it to each other but in truth it’s a dull, overpriced, little town with a severe lack of resources (schools, doctors, transport links (not going to London) amenities etc.) and is in fact just a massive housing estate with the odd pretty bit. Galls me to live in a supposedly ‘green’ place yet have to get in a car to enjoy any of it. When I lived in a city access to woods, fields and large parks was much easier.

I presume they have to talk up the hype to keep the house prices going.

You haven't been to Staines, Woking or Camberley have you... smile
Don’t forget addlestone and Chertsey, they are Charmingly placing. I particularly like the bouncers in Staines McDonald’s on a Sunday afternoon and Woking town centre is a joy on a Friday night.