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'?

@haverhill
Gloucester?

Petworth

Wendover, definitely, but Ampthill???

Nowhere in the north is as middle class as nicer areas in the south. Big divide

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.

Stratford on Avon
Warwick
Henley on Thames
Windsor
Lichfield
Knowle

Also Kenilworth is white naice.

Ludlow
Shrewsbury

@IceBearRocks I think it is...there are some tougher housing estates you're right but that happens in all towns. Overall though, town centre is always kept well (the flowers, for example), there is a big arts community, music scene, lots of quaint independent shops which seem to thrive, a huge and elaborate, popular Christmas market, historic buildings, a gorgeous well-kept Park in the ruins of the Abbey and next to the Cathedral. Also, very good high schools and high house prices.

I don't live there, based on my last point!

Port Glasgow

Can't believe someone said Warminster! It's obviously gone up in the world since we moved away. And there's a Waitrose now?! Goodness, I could almost move back.

Monmouth
Marlow
Henley-on-Thames, can't speak for Henley-in-Arden.
Chipping Camsen
Farnham

I'm laughing at the people suggesting Oxford, parts are rougher than a badgers bum it had a huge joy riding culture in the 80s & 90s and a 3 day riot some parts of blackbird leyes estate were a no go area.

I seems to have settled down but most middle class towns/cities will have the rougher areas.

Peckham😂

Leamington Spa

Ledbury
Great Malvern
Cirencester
Monmouth

A lot of these places mentioned have posh parts but to be like Marlborough it needs to be small and no nasty parts so really small towns with one street.

My town's been mentioned here a couple of times

Who said Gloucester?

Cheltenham is a dump too apart from the Montpelier area.

Lympstone in Devon; Hathersege near Sheffield; ?Malvern (big Waitrose); Hampstead; Finchingfield in Essex; Arundel.

Booths is in deep financial trouble I believe? Then all you will have is Morrison’s!

Bugger, I will let everyone in Harrogate Waitrose know when I do my big food shop at the weekend.

Booths had a really bad year after the Keswick floods Margaret, the rest of their problems were reflective of the high st supermarket trend. They had a big shake up, saved more than £1m p.a by getting rid of some of the executive. Lost even more money the following year and have recently brought Edwin Booth back.

It looks very much like the definition of Middle Class being used on here is code for white.

West bridgford in Nottingham
Kew
Godalming
Midhurst West Sussex
Sonning common
Highclere and burghclere
Alderley edge

As with many towns, harrogate had he veneer of poshness. Reality is slightly different. I was in the McDonald's last week and there was an addict preparing his heroin in the corner next to me before going off to shoot up in the toilet. Not nice.

It looks very much like the definition of Middle Class being used on here is code for white.

Agreed The town I grew up in has been mentioned. It's one of the least diverse, most racist and homophobic places I've ever lived. And predominantly working class. Some people on this thread have very odd ideas.

Castle Coombe is possibly the most charming village ever.

We're on a walking trip through Shropshire at the moment and it's quite an extraordinary county, every little village we drive through is a postcard.

Are similar towns in the Home Counties etc drug free sleepy?

It looks very much like the definition of Middle Class being used on here is code for white

And Londoncentric. Very worst thing about Mumsnet IMHO. Blatant snobbishness against anywhere not in and around London and proclamations about the rest of the country from people who seem to think they know more they know more about places they've never been to, than those who live there, but we know that you're posting complete shite, that bears no resemblence to reality.

Veneer of poshness is right for most places sleepy isn’t it.

I have lived in or near quite a few places named on this thread.

A proper community doesn’t just involve naice, it includes a community, young, old, rich, poor and everything between.

Some things make somewhere nice to live, in my case lots of green space, history, architecture, independent shops, a few restaurants I enjoy eating in, independent cinema, nice food shop, fantastic schools. All within walking distance.