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.

Basildon good grief what have they got to be snobby about?

@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I live in probably the snobbiest part of Solihull ( in the smallest property there! ) am constantly amazed by the attitude of local residents.
I chose to move here for the school but they are not my people.

[quote Rosehip10]@SakuraEdenSwan1 Yarm yes (people pretend Teeside/Middlesborough doesn't exist!), but Northallerton?? Aren't most there wanting to be in (relatively snobby) Thirsk?[/quote]
That made me laugh

For years you lived in Thirsk if you couldn’t afford Northallerton

Well, everywhere I have lived in the UK has now been mentioned. What do I win?

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Oldraver I know the town you're talking about.

Totally agree re West Oxfordshire, if you want a full on snobbery experience then visit Burford garden centre. It's heaving with braying families who give awful looks to people they deem too inferior to being here.

@PilatesPeach

Sonning - 2 parts though - one tip of Woodley on A4 end and what I always think of as Sonning, on the other side of the A4 with the bridge & Coppa etc. I did not even know there was a Woodley side of Sonning until recently until I saw Sonning Golf club. Both nice but suspect more snooty north of the Thames.

Yeah between Woodley and Lower Earley is old Earley and Woodley and Lower Earley both think they're posher than old Earley. Us scruffs in Earley think they're hilarious. We have better pubs, better bus link and our houses aren't as dear to rent.

Burford.

@Diggingaholeformyself

Oldraver I know the town you're talking about.

Totally agree re West Oxfordshire, if you want a full on snobbery experience then visit Burford garden centre. It's heaving with braying families who give awful looks to people they deem too inferior to being here.

I’m from Witney, totally with you on Burford garden centre. Used to take DD to the playground (years ago).

And yes, Carterton was always considered ‘the poor relation’ to Witney, ridiculous snobbery.

Digging- burford garden centre is lovely! I can’t afford most of the stuff their but no one has ever given me a dirty look! People really don’t do that when shopping unless you have badly behaved children or are being rude. It’s in your mind, you don’t need to feel uncomfortable in these ‘posh’ places - it’s just a shop!

@Jumpingintosummer. How the hell did I forget about Alloway!!

I took it as towns where people genuinely think they are much better than the next town over type of thing, hence Clitheroe

I was once taken to Clitheroe and told that it was posh and lovely. I was totally underwhelmed by it and nonplussed that it was considered to be a 'naice' town, but it's fair to say that it was much nicer than most of the towns around it.

Relativity is everything.

[quote StarCourt]@GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER I live in probably the snobbiest part of Solihull ( in the smallest property there! ) am constantly amazed by the attitude of local residents.
I chose to move here for the school but they are not my people.[/quote]
But they're sending their children to the same school. Or are they?

You need to keep a close eye on your own children. Who knows what undesirable notions they may develop

@NetballHoop

Well, everywhere I have lived in the UK has now been mentioned. What do I win?

I have visited/have relatives in/lived in loads of these places and I feel like my whole life has been a lie now.

@wdmtthgcock

Gosforth in Newcastle. Not all of it - but the millionaire's row type area. Ditto some parts of Jesmond.

Corbridge.

Rothbury

Rothbury is lovely!

I live in Basildon - but it’s a village in West Berkshire (has an Upper and Lower). I suspect some might says it’s posh!

@Sittinonthesand

Digging- burford garden centre is lovely! I can’t afford most of the stuff their but no one has ever given me a dirty look! People really don’t do that when shopping unless you have badly behaved children or are being rude. It’s in your mind, you don’t need to feel uncomfortable in these ‘posh’ places - it’s just a shop!

I don't feel uncomfortable in there 😂

I can assure you though that some people certainly do look down their noses at people they don't think fit in.

I was once taken to Clitheroe and told that it was posh and lovely. I was totally underwhelmed by it and nonplussed that it was considered to be a 'naice' town, but it's fair to say that it was much nicer than most of the towns around it.

Actually, ignore me. It wasn't Clitheroe.Clitheroe was quite nice, but I am thinking of somewhere else entirely. Can't remember but it will come back to me. Where is the other town in that general vicinity that's considered nice compared to its neighbours? I can see the place in my head, but can't think of its name.

@Sparklingbrook, yes, I think I may need to buy some pearls so that I have something to clutch!

By the way, why can't we quote a post that is quoting a previous one?

I’m so happy no one said Cambridge. I was worried

Funnily enough, two of the snobbiest people I know are from Luton! They are both wealthier than the people they live close to and with whom they socialise and are pretty vile with it. They love being the “Queen Bees” and lording it up over their less well-off acquaintances.

[quote Rosehip10]@SakuraEdenSwan1 Yarm yes (people pretend Teeside/Middlesborough doesn't exist!), but Northallerton?? Aren't most there wanting to be in (relatively snobby) Thirsk?[/quote]
Gosh yes I forgot about Thirsk!!

Funnily enough, two of the snobbiest people I know are from Luton! They are both wealthier than the people they live close to and with whom they socialise and are pretty vile with it. They love being the “Queen Bees” and lording it up over their less well-off acquaintances.

I'm not disputing that snobs like that exist, we all know at least one who has come from nothing much, done really well for themselves and they've turned into monsters as a result.

But equally I think some people are unfairly accused of 'looking down on us now' when nothing of the sort is true and it's just insecure projecting on the part of their less well off friends who feel inferior by comparison.

I’m surprised to see 15 pages before Yarm got a mention! See also any town/village with a TS postcode that proclaims to be in North Yorkshire...

Actually, on that note - I think any place where the majority of residents choose to align themselves with a ‘naicer’ neighbouring area than the one they’re actually in!