Snobbiest places in the UK?

[phranes]

Following from similar threads about overrated and underrated places in the UK... where are the snobbiest places in the UK?

From the places I've been, I'd say Harrogate, Oxford, and the rest of the Cotswolds.

Chichester. I went to High School there and it was so far up it's own arse it was unbelievable. Ironically the school is really shit now.

Cheshire in general I’d say? Alderley Edge, Knutsford, Wilmslow etc. Seems to be full of people from Manchester pretending that they’re not from Manchester 😂

@Talkwhilstyouwalk if it’s any consolation I’m in Hyde, technically Cheshire, and I will always put Greater Manchester too
The campaign cannot die!

@SarahAndQuack

Snobs are usually new money not old.

But that's the worst sort of snobby comment in itself!

There are definitely twee bits of Bath and Edinburgh - most touristy cities have their twee element. Tea shops with arch names that cater to hen parties spring to mind.

I used to live in Edinburgh. The twee tea shops/fudge shops/shops selling shortbread in tartan tins are all on or near the Royal Mile. Most people who actually live in Edinburgh don't go there much, they leave them to the tourists and the hen-parties.

Edinburgh is very varied. There's a lot of deprivation. Then there are what I think of solid middle-class districts containing solid but not flashy houses (Morningside, Corstorphine). For true pretentiousness (and serious money) head to the New Town. There's more than likely snobbery in Edinburgh New Town but I never knew anyone who had enough money to live there.

The bits of Bath I know are overpriced and snobbish and unfriendly.

Ha ha yes Oxford. I went for work and asked someone where the University was. They took the piss out of me because it's all around the city. I mean there was no need to be an arse about it, even if you are asked 500 times a day.

@PostieModern

Lots of people in less nice parts of Edinburgh still have an innate sense of superiority, just because they come from Edinburgh. So I would say that snobbery is quite widespread

To be fair, Edinburgh is great. Not as cool as Glasgow though.

@TurquoiseLemur, yes, I know Edinburgh reasonably well.

Like all other cities/towns that are twee in a touristy way, the twee touristy ways are avoided by the locals. That's the point, right?

Much of Surrey (Esher, Weybridge, Guildford, Hampton etc)
Bath
The older well-to-do Cheltenham brigade.
Parts of Norfolk.

Fulham - mostly the older / middle aged gen, as now there is an influx of International young profs. But those established ones are the most snobbish ever (usually with a place in Surrey also - or in the Cotswolds). They are not rich as such, so no mansions involved.
Belgravia in London - they are simply very rich and socialise with the same only.
Quite a few snobs in Hampstead but the 'elite' seems more insular / quietly snobby there.

In Northern Ireland - Hillsborough. But only the blow ins.

Harrogate and Formby

You cannot buy yourself in to the class system no matter how much money you have.

Is this a good thing?

The narrative of old money being somehow superior then new money confuses me I have to say. However I'm not English.

Harrogate.

Maidenhead
Honestly that lot crack me up

@Letsgetreadytocrumble

Luton?!

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I thought that

DD did her training at Harrogate hospital and said many of the patients were appallingly rude and entitled (irrespective of age) with the odd prisoner from Wealstun thrown in for some welcome balance.

I live in St Albans and used to live in Primrose Hill and don't find either snobby. Primrose Hill was actually one of the nicest, friendliest communities I've lived in. By contrast I grew up in a deprived community in the north east and our lives were made miserable because we perceived as "posh."

When we first moved to St Albans there were quite a few very posh older people who seemed vaguely horrified by all the London incomers and their noisy offspring, but I don't see that so much. Possibly because my DC are past the noisy stage.

I have a kind of inverse snobbery about Harpenden. Most of the women I've met from there are all perma-blowdried and manicured and in expensive workout gear that they never actually break a sweat in. St Albans people all seem more down to earth and "normal" to me.

Oh, and I've got family in Harrogate and have always found it a nice, friendly community too.

@phranes

Oh yes. I only know one person from Harpenden, but they were a monumental snob.

In Scotland, I would say Edinburgh.

Definitely not all of Edinburgh!!

@SheepPixie, @Partypoooooper, @HeronLanyon you all get my vote. Was in Berkhamsted yesterday visiting a friend I haven't seen since before the virus. I would also add Farnham 80% of Berkhamsted on the scale.

I love Edinburgh too, and have never encountered any snobbishness there either.

The only place mentioned on here that I have found rather up itself is Beaconsfield.

Divebar2021

Why this obsession with posh / snobs? There’s actually nothing wrong with being “posh” whatever your definition of that is. If we started a thread on common or chavvy places I’m sure that would go realllllllllyyyyyy well.

I agree. And if there’s one thing worse than being a ‘snob’ it’s being an inverted snob.
So many of those here on MN.
And this is not personal, I’m very working class. None of us can help where we came from/ what we were born into.

The Berkshire village I grew up in. It used to be a pretty Thames side village, full of people who had been there generations. Now we’ve got the Clooneys and Theresa May, even Uri Geller has left. A few years ago I was visiting the church where I got married and started chatting with a woman who was pottering about in there. I told her I grew up in the village, and she looked me up and down and said “On the council estate I assume?” Cheeky fucking bitch.

St John's Wood, London

@Iamanunsafebuilding. Totally agree with you. I spent some of my childhood in Swindon. Just got a new job where I sometimes have to go to the warehouse/ call centre in Swindon. When I arrived they thought I was 'one of those London ones'. It made me sad they were instantly apologising for Swindon and the fact they were at the 'not so fancy' London office. If they weren't there nothing would get shipped and no phones would get answered and none of us would have a job. I told them I wouldn't have a bad word said about Swindon. Found out I lived on the same road as the warehouse manager and I am now accepted as part of their crew and not a fancy London person....whatever that is, because it isn't me!!!

@weekend2021

Divebar2021

Why this obsession with posh / snobs? There’s actually nothing wrong with being “posh” whatever your definition of that is. If we started a thread on common or chavvy places I’m sure that would go realllllllllyyyyyy well.

I agree. And if there’s one thing worse than being a ‘snob’ it’s being an inverted snob.
So many of those here on MN.
And this is not personal, I’m very working class. None of us can help where we came from/ what we were born into.

But being snobby is exactly that attitude of caring about what someone was born into and making a big deal.

There's nothing special, or indeed particularly unpleasant about Solihull. It's an entirely normal town. But there is a whole set of people there who consider themselves hugely better than their Birmingham neighbours just because it's not Birmingham.

That's the entirely pointless and amusing snobbishness the thread was was asking for. Nothing to do with being posh.