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.

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.

Have you been accused of being snobby? 😆

@FatRascalsAndJam

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!

To clarify, nothing wrong with Teesside, I lived there myself. But it is snobbery itself to choose to align yourself with an area you deem ‘better’.

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

This is just ridiculous, it’s a garden centre. How can you not fit in?

I think of all the places I've been in the UK, I'd say Guildford. Though I don't know if it's snobbishness or entitledness, or maybe a mix of both.

I did hear a story that Tescos in Hindhead in Surrey only stocked their Finest Range, but that may have been an urban myth

@SunflowersAndLavender

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.

Oh yes I do agree with you; I have witnessed this too. Sadly, in the aforementioned examples they have both outright claimed to be snobs...as if they are proud of it 🤦‍♀️. I didn’t mention this originally as it doesn’t sound believable, but sadly is. They both have narcissistic tendencies, and I wouldn’t be surprised if there is a link between the two!

@FatRascalsAndJam

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!

Is Redcar still Teeside? Because I know someone from there who insists she's from North Yorkshire and I was wondering if they'd moved the border.

Drove through a few places on this list today actually.

Richmond (Bushy Park)
Esher
Cobham
West Byfleet
Woking

I don't live very far from Hartley Wintney which was mentioned further up. It won't be snobby once the 10,000 garden "village" gets built next-door.

Has Tenterden been mentioned? Although I don't think its snobby, just a nice place. Ditto Stockbridge in Hampshire.

I wish I'd stopped in Cobham to check out the Waitrose car park now. Sounds like I could get two of my car into one of their spaces!

Interesting that Chigwell, Essex hasn't had a mention

Esther, more specifically MIL's house.

@InDIYHell

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!

hello other basildon i always wondered if anyone lived there

any place where the majority of residents choose to align themselves with a ‘naicer’ neighbouring area than the one they’re actually in!

I used to work with an really snobby woman, Hyacinth Bouquet personified. I know exactly where she lived because I had access the all the staff's addresses. Whenever asked she would say she lived in Twickenham. She also used to shoe horn Twickenham into conversations at every opportunity. She'd say things like 'Oh I could never move house, I just love Twickenham.'

It was Hounslow. She wasn't even near the border.

On the other hand I did used to live right on the border between a very nice town and a much less nice one. I was on the 'nice' side by the skin of my teeth, (and my postcode proved it) which I was always used to joke about very openly about, but there were a handful of people who were determined to not let me have it. Fuck knows why but it seemed to make them feel better.

One person once asked me where I lived and I said 'Nice Town, in Kent' (really no need for explanations about living on the cusp of somewhere else at that point) and a a colleague who knew the area said quick as a flash 'Tut. No you don't! You live in Crap town.' with an eye roll and the tone of voice you usually reserve for a small child who has just told an whopping lie.

Some people are very strange.

Oxford and/or Salcombe

not posh but north wales when i was there once heard 2 older women vchatting in welsh smiled at them they turned away-apprently slagging me off in welsh-bastards

@SunflowersAndLavender

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.

Skipton? Whalley?

No. It was definitely Lancs not Yorks.

Garstang? I found it very up itself when I was younger but when I went recently it wasn’t quite as bad.

I think it might have been Todmorden. Does that sound about right?

In Northern Ireland, Hollywood or South Belfast. There’s areas in east Belfast that are basically as middle class/posh as S Belfast but the snobbery isn’t

Cheltenham - so judgmental. Hated living there.

@Hyacinth88

Aunt plodder I agree. My daughter rhas just turned down an unconditional place at St Andrews uni due to the culture there.

Mine did the same! It just wasn't a place she wanted to be, and many other student experiences corroborated her feelings.

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

This is just made me PMSL. I'll give you places like Stockbridge and Morningside can be dreadful but the most snobbish place in Scotland I have the misfortune to spent any time was Newton Mearns.

Re. the culture at St Andrews. I once went to a conference there and went to a pub in the evening where a group of students were blacked up on their way to attend some kind of party.

My mum's house.

@GCAcademic

Re. the culture at St Andrews. I once went to a conference there and went to a pub in the evening where a group of students were blacked up on their way to attend some kind of party.

I have no difficulty at all believing this. I once turned down an academic job there because I hated it when I was there for the interview. The student definitely made my Oxford cohort look proley by comparison, and all those golf courses attract an awful lot of wankers..