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'?

I grew up in a MC area of Ipswich but I certainly wouldn't think the town centre as middle class!!

Morpeth. It has been gentrified over recent years and feels upmarket. It is also very pretty. I love it.

Morpeth and Hexham are indeed lovely!

sorry I think people are confusing nice areas with MC places... just because the demographics for an area make Waitrose open don’t coincide with pleasant areas - this thread is chatting about MC places not pleasant areas to live 🤔

Has St Andrews been mentioned? Don't think it has a Waitrose but it us most definitely posh! !

Our nearby Waitrose is closing and become an Aldi. I will have to move!

@ivykaty44

They very often go hand in hand

Waitrose would not open in an an area that wasn’t middle class because otherwise they wouldn’t have a market.

And middle class means very often does indeed go hand in hand with pleasant places to live. Why? Because there’s money to spend... so restaurants / coffee shops / events / farmers markets / independent shops all have a market for example

Plus schools tend to be good
Playgrounds clean tidy and pleasant because if not - people articulately complain to the council

It’s these kinds of thinks that make places to live pleasant on a day to day basis

My town has a Waitrose, one of very few in Scotland.
It has a 'naice', reputation, but some parts are awful.

Leamington has be mentioned a lot. It's nice.

Warwick is nicer. Yes it's tiny (the castle is the same size as much of the rest) but no Maccies, no nightclub.... independent shops. It's lovely. If a bit small.

North I'd say Lytham, Settle, Harrogate & Alderley Edge.

Locally I can think of Petworth, Arundel and Horsham but Horsham does have a darker side. I live in one of them but have lived in all three. Sussex is the best place in the country imo

I love Settle, but it didn't strike me as particularly middle class. Has got Booths though.
I must have hit Leamington Spa on a bad day, because it seemed a bit rough last time we went.

Peterborough It was famous for being a town of cheap immigration in the 60s when my DM went there to work in a kettle factory. Nothings changed since.

Huntingdon. They even took our Waitrose away for a while - the horror! Plus they don't even bother to hide the massive council estate behind a hill like they do in Dartmouth.

These places ain't no Marlborough.

at a few of these. Hitchin? Hahahahaha....

Emsworth

Never understand the point of these threads really.

Unless they are just so someone can pop up and say " I live there" with a big smiley!

Chalfont St Giles

Well come on. The name for a start.
Noel Gallagher moved there. From Burnage to Chalfont. It must feel like a different planet.

The poster who said Ipswich at the beginning of this thread must be taking the piss. I'm from Ipswich and I definitely wouldn't describe it as middle class! Woodbridge is the epitome of a middle class town though imo.

Harrogate, Ilkley, Buxton and Bath. All lovely. I am unashamedly middle class

HRTFT. Has anyone mentioned Northallerton yet ?

All The Chalfonts , if haven't been said.
Beaconsfield too.

Sorry Bringback and you were right above me too!

Waitrose would not open in an an area that wasn’t middle class because otherwise they wouldn’t have a market.

How does that work where there is an Aldi and a Waitrose almost next to each other then? Willerby and Sheffield are two locations that I know of.

Northallerton doesn't have either a Waitrose or a Booth's. It has Lewis and Cooper which is a naice delicatessen-cum-supermarket. What used to be Somerfield was Sainsbury's when I was last year.

Wetherby and surrounding villages such as Linton, Collingham and Boston Spa - all middle class.

when I was last there...

I have to visit Northallerton once a week and I don’t feel a MC vibe.