Snobbiest places in the UK?

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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.

Belsize Park. They campaigned to not have a tesco on the high street. Budgens is in keeping with the place.

Hampstead had to let McDonalds go.

Chichester, Horsham and West worthing.

Chichester!

You see, I would have to disagree about Edinburgh @InDeedyDo. I don't think it's great, although I'll admit I seem to be the only person I've ever met who thinks that. There are lots of great things about it but it could do so much better. It's grubby, the roads are awful AND the people, whether local or incomer, whether they live in Wester Hailes or the New Town are invariably up their own backsides just because they live in Edinburgh

All those people who claim the truly posh are not snobs and it’s the middle classes.... I’ve never actually heard a more snobby attitude and yet these snobs don’t even seem to realise it!

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.

But how do you know that they consider themselves better, rather than just preferring to live where they do? I don’t understand how a place can be ‘snobby’. I live in the Cotswolds, which has had a few mentions. I don’t think I’m a better person because I live here, although on the whole I like living here. There are downsides at times, driving through Stow on the Wold in the summer to pick my son up from the station can be a nightmare. No idea why someone said something negative about Cheltenham centre, which is just a normal not particularly good shopping centre.

Oxford and the cotswolds absolutely correct ! X

With the emphasis on the "hull" bit for true snobbiness! When the Moat House Hotel opened in the mid-90s they offered a free roast dinner on their first Sunday to anyone whose name rhymed with Solihull giving the examples in their advert of Molly Hull or Solly (short for Solomon) Hull. Someone called Roly Hull wrote to the Solihull Times to complain about this common mispronounciation of his town and to point out he was the only one who truly rhymed.

😂😂😂 that's so random! I bet they didnt give away any many free dinners

West sussexes as a whole are snobs against the East sussex lots.

This is a weird thread. All these so called snobby places being listed are just places that aren’t complete shit holes. Obviously many wealthier people will choose to live in nice places - entirely rationally! There may be some snobs of course, but they (and inverse snobs who are the other side of the same coin and just as unpleasantly judgey) exist everywhere. They are just people who think they are better than others. Those of you who think you get disproving looks for driving cars that aren’t expensive- I really think this is in your head, I can’t imagine anyone else is really interested.
Villages can be very cliquey, which I guess is a bit like snobbery, but is really just people forming friendship groups although it can be sad if you want to be ‘in’ but aren’t.

But how do you know that they consider themselves better, rather than just preferring to live where they do? I don’t understand how a place can be ‘snobby’
Because I used to regularly hear people complaining that people thought Solihull was in Birmingham rather than right next to it as if being part of Birmingham was in my way demeaning or important. Because there was a campaign for Solihull to get its own phone code and not be 0121 to lessen the association with Birmingham. It was all so silly and yes, snobby, about Birmingham.

Maybe I’m biased thinking about my old boss who lived on the edge of Fartney W and boasted about moving his fence back onto Forestry Commission land to give his horses more land.

@mamamalt

Hove, actually

Spot on 🤣

Who do the people of Basildon think they’re better than?
Probably those in Luton...

Chester for sure

Bearsden: You are a boring overpriced suburb. Get over
yourself.

God yes I grew up in Bearsden. It was shit. You’d need to pay me a lot of money to live there now!

@Chaiandkaafee

East London newbies - the gentrification lot. So snobby and wannabe middle class. It stinks. Donate to oxfam to make themselves feel better at the way they sneer at the ‘indigenous’ immigrant locals who’ve lived there for yonks.

Massive generalisation disclaimer here.

Yup. Call themselves Londoners after being here for 5 mins and give the rest of us a bad name...

@IsThePopeCatholic

Fowey

Is that you, Dawn?

Basildon presumably a joke. I went a few times for work and found it a bit depressing- it was winter which obviously doesn’t help. It struck as me as being a place with quite high deprivation.

Well I was a teen when we moved, grew up on the south side first. It was so boring. Nothing to do really.

There are some snobby cows in Luton. I met them in my nct group years ago. So dont judge peeps

By ‘snobby’, do most of you mean that you are made to feel inferior? If so, please remember that nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission.

If it’s a case of people with e.g. shiny new expensive cars apparently looking down on you, such people are pathetic and are not worth a moment of concern. Might add, we have a neighbour who judges people’s worth (I don’t mean financial worth) by the cars they drive, and has royally screwed up her kids by teaching them to value people only by their possessions.

I would have to say any new build estate where they have built social housing among the mortgaged houses and the part owned houses The snobbery is savage There’s a certain brand of insecure snobbery that is savage

Oxford ? Obviously never been to Barton, Blackbird Leys, Marston, Cowley, Rosehill etc There is nothing snobbish about Oxford, it is a dive

I came on here to say Sonning in Berkshire but I see it has been alluded to by a PP.

Also, someone mentioned Wokingham which I’d say is not quite up there with the likes of Marlow, Sonning and Henley.

I know of someone who lives in Wokingham but will only drive to Waitrose in Henley to shop because they say Wokingham is ‘too chavvy’ (they are not actually a friend of mine!).

@Blyatiful

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.

Sonning?

I'm just down the road from there and we think it's properly posh