Middle class towns

[midnightmoon8]

We drove home from holiday yesterday and passed through Marlborough where we made a lunch stop to break our journey. What a fabulous town! Everything about it felt so upmarket; the shops, smart people, etc. Where have you been that felt so 'posh'?

Erm. Richmond resident here. Not very posh. My 4 bed terraced house would probably sell now for 900K. And it’s on the main road. There is no way a detached hous in this borough is anything less than 1.5 million, probably well upwards of 2. Teddington and Kew are some of the nicest parts of Richmond. The bits bordering Hounslow are a lot cheaper.

Hexham seemed very nice

*Who said Gloucester?

Cheltenham is a dump too apart from the Montpelier area*

But as peoppe who live there we know that but how many when just visiting see beyond the cathredal etc

A friend of my mums told her that they were going to retire to Stroud town centre and live this luxuarous "ladies that lunch" middle class life when my mum told me i chuckled and went oh yeah good luck with that. To which my mum said her friend has this idea that stroud is this beautiful cotswald market town with a farmers market and organic food on tap which yeah if you spend half a day there ig is, then theres areas that really arent that nice at all

Dorking used to be very middle class dahling but not sure if it still is these days.

Huntingdon is a heroin town - not middle class at all.

Huntingdon is a heroin town the few heroin users I know that survived past their 20s are very much middle class.

Southwold
Aldeburugh
Woodbridge
Framlingham
Brockenhurst
Lyndhurst

I thought this thread was just a bit of fun, not to be taken seriously.

@Booop

This is 100% why I moved North. Grew up in one of the towns has been mentioned numerous times on this thread. A bubble of nice, dullness covered in oneupmanship. Narrow minded snobs everywhere. Love it up here, can be who I want to be without judgement and competing with everyone else.

You do realise how judgemental and narrow minded your comment is, don’t you??

Lytham

They may be nicer areas and middle class by northern standards

Pmsl at this MN gem

@YupThatsMe ....I was joking. BSE is beautiful and I'm very lucky and I remind our children how lucky we are to live here. DD loves the Angel Hotel and comments Everytime we pass!
We live in a teeny village 6 miles out. I'm from a tough housing estate in outskirts of a big northern town so even the tough estates here are nothing in comparison!!!!

Leamington Spa
Kenilworth
Ely
Bath
Chester
Stratford upon Avon

Huntington I wouldn’t say is middle class at all. I’ve been to Saffron Walden like some of the other posters and it’s definitely very middle class. We live in Leeds and some of the areas are quite middle class others not so much.

Places that spring to mind: Hale, Hitchin, Bath, Lemington Spa, a lot of the new forest towns.

Sherborne - mustard cords ahoy!

I thought this thread was just a bit of fun, not to be taken seriously

It's like sexism though. When you're the butt of snide, derogatory and unfounded comments constantly, it stops being a bit of fun doesn't it?

Barbara The small town I live in is often joked about as being a bit rough, having a drug problem etc but I live here quite happily.
I suppose it depends on what you mean by middle class, and whether you think it is a good thing or a bad thing.

@Dilemmacentral I'm obviously a product of my environment

Lymington is quite posh.

Ah, must be mc if they have a Waitrose?
Do the Ipswich trashers realise that the town has not one, but two!
And a long lewis- it's next to the landrover dealership 😂

I'm a Suffolk girl. As with most parts of Suffolk, Ipswich has nice areas and not so nice areas. Even aldeburg has not so nice areas.

And it slightly narks me that the likes of aldeburgh/ southwold/ Woodbridge/Fram are visited by people in their fake hunters and joules trying just so very hard to be mc

Chichester!

I lived in lymington and it was not MC at all.

I live in woodbridge now. Im not MC but this place tries to be.

The biggest and best Waitrose in Northamptonshire is on the edge of a town which is not middle class, although like everywhere else it has good bits.

theunsure
Stamford and Oakham are amongst my nearest towns and are really nice.We also have Melton Mowbray which isn't!

It's not that bad, surely?

But yes, we do have a lack of decent shops, car parks charges are bloody ridiculous, and years ago our council were nicknamed the "40 thieves" and not for nothing, either...

If Waitrose opened branches every 50 metres along the 'Golden Mile' it still wouldn't make Ipswich mc 😁. It's a good place with reasonable facilities, excellent house prices and a few rather naice spots.