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.

@Spacecadet58

How can a place be snobby, it’s people that are snobby and every town has a mix of people. How can the whole of the Cotswolds be snobby for gods sake, it has loads of poverty like most rural areas. This post just sounds really chippy and is based on superficial impressions of places where people just look at the pretty bits and make massive assumptions.

From personal experience of having lived there, I find the Cotswolds to be like a weird mash-up of This Country and Midsomer Murders, but without the murders.

My village .

Chanel shops are snobby, sometimes they don't even want to let you buy stuff.

@Lapun

Hampstead NW London

Oh I dream of living there. I would be rich enough to live in a house with a massive gate so wouldn’t have to talk to anyone. I would just wander around happily.

I went to school in Berkhamsted, had my first child there... now live in a village next door to Haslemere and next door but one to Godalming. Previous home was Cranleigh, Surrey and my eldest is in Reigate. I am working poor and totally not a snob but I do get why all these places have been mentioned!
I think there’s an important distinction to be made between snobbery and one upmanship though.

@Letsgetreadytocrumble

Luton?!

My thoughts exactly 😂 Wasn't it recently voted the 4th worse place to live in England? I'd say Pulborough in West Sussex. I remember visiting there one weekend & it was very snobby & unwelcoming.

Yes, I’m a bit boggled at Kingston being snobby. Possibly if you live in New Malden, but otherwise, erm - no.

The SW London/A3 corridor - in reverse order - would be Kingston, Richmond, Wimbledon Village, and the winner by a long, long way - Barnes.

I was going to say this! I am a bit late to the party though... so you beat me too it! 😂

@PT8998

I was going to say this! I am a bit late to the party though... so you beat me too it! 😂

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Burnham Market aka 'Chelsea on Sea'. Used to be lovely 20 years ago but no more.

Basildon?! Really?

Hale in Cheshire.

What's happened to Moor Park, Northwood? It was arriviste central for new money when one of my uncles drove his newest jag up to his electric gates in the 1960s. That was not somewhere I would have wanted to live in and if it hasn't improved it should be top of the list.

Kingston upon Thames cannot possibly be snobby, I feel at home there and I grew up in the Elephant and Castle .

Salcombe, Godalming and Sherborne, now you're talking. I'll add the posh end of Dorking to the list.

Can only speak for Essex

Stock
Upminster

Salcombe!!

I stand corrected then @Rosehip10, I only lived there a couple of years and it was a long time ago now, I can't remember who told me or how it came up

KaptainKaveman

Oxford v snobby. Parts of N London are deeply posh whereas the wannabes in Saaarf are mere snobs , being naturally inferior wink

I cannot accept that Luton is snobbish. I mean, on what basis? I thought it was peopled by nothing but oiks. You'll be telling us next that Canvey Island is snobby. People need to know their place.
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The genuine Oiks are in Luton, Kent - don't visit after dark

I was at school with a girl from Moor Park. Except it turned out she lived in a flat above a chemist in a parade of shops right on the edge, so not really Moor Park at all.

Kingston is weird as it’s part scruffsville part footballer gin palaces in the Coombes. Def not snobby, nouveau riche if anything.

@ivykaty44

Coventry

and id agree not everyone in the Cotswolds is filthy rich, but it does help as housing starts at £500k

I used to tell my Stivichall dwelling Ex inlaws that they actually lived in Cheylesmore just to see the reaction

Tatiana, I was going to say 'nouveau' about Kingston too but thought I'd sound snobby! It always really surprises me that there's a state primary school smack bang in the middle of Coombe Lane as it seems such 'prep school' territory.

Oxford v snobby (why is that the case and yet no one has mentioned Cambridge)?

I'm not sure all these places really fall into the same category. Are some truly pukka and others snobby without a real reason for being so? There is a difference.

Parts of N London which parts? I'm curious. As someone said upthread there is a whole area of SW London (Nappy Valley) that just drips private sector privilege and it's probably got a population of a large city in itself.

I can honestly so nowhere Ive ever been. Everywhere has a genuine mix of people, whether they're are the way they are through circumstances or otherwise. I just accept everyone on face value, and if they aren't engaging or look down then I move on. I don't think you can generalise that a certain place is snobby.

i agree about west sussex,
when in london years ago, on the phone to a lady, she said she lived in west sussex, not east sussex, she lived in the post part of sussex! i was gobsmacked