Why does Surrey seem to have quite a few stuck up people

[UrbanMan27]

I was working in Surrey today and people there seem to turn their nose up a certain people. Why are people like that there? Has anyone else noticed this there?

For the sake of accuracy I would just point out that Feltham most definitely is not in Surrey .

And the debate about historic county boundaries, postcodes etc comes up regularly on here and is beyond tedious.

I lived in |Surry a while. Shitty place called Shirley quite near East Croydon so absolutely nothing to be stuck up about!!!!

You obviously were in one the better parts of Surrey not New Addington or Thornton heath Surrey has pockets of super wealthy people and ordinary down to earth people and some very deprived people like any county

Ha ha I lived in Surrey for a while. It is a bit golf and bankers. And whilst I met plenty of perfectly nice people there, I did come across a good dollop of snobs. One memorable encounter was a woman who brayed “Oh, you’re from the North. You must find the houses so much nicer down here.” I told her I thought Knaresborough had far prettier houses than Egham, on the whole.

Money

Any part of the country where you find people who have lots of money, and you will find that some of them have this attitude.

And of course the stockbroker belt has more than its fair share of loaded people...

I take it you wasn't in Park Barn? 😄 yes lots of Tory voting snobs, lots of very down to each manual labourers too. Lots of people who don't give a shit about voting for anyone.

I will contribute and add some parts of Hampshire are shocking for snobbery, there will always be those that like too feel superior when really they are no better then the rest of us.

Ooh i grew up in Tavistock and also used to travel into Plymouth for the clubs and the sea!

I now live in Surrey. People are politer here but I miss the sea 🙁

Small world, how funny Jewel!

Posh people in Surrey you say, no way. But they're probably better neighbours than the riff raff I have, who don't know what day it is to put their bins out , openly smoke cannabis on the doorstep when kids are playing out, leave their dogs barking in the garden all day , live off takeaways and all bought their kids 40 mph electric scooters for Christmas. I'd love posh neighbours , but Surrey is out of my price range!

Never mind.

Sorry this made me chuckle.

Such a goady weird thread so at least it's humorous .

Spend the day in Redhill then get back to me.

@Deathraystare and @Isseywith3witchycats Shirley, New Addington and Thornton Heath are all London not Surrey (London Borough if Croydon).
It's increasingly obvious that anywhere in the south east of England is actually part of Surrey......

I know people from the Heath who say they live in Surrey 😆

I wonder if we ever bumped into each other! 🤔

And as a Londoner I know Croydon is in London but it's not really 😆

@Seeline ·

It was deffo Surrey when I lived there. Now everywhere seems to be part of London. The car park at the end of our back garden was actually under Kent at the time!

By the time I die, Greater London will end at Brighton. All the aforementioned not in Surreys were in Surrey until the boundaries were redrawn.

I live in West Sussex, same as the OP, and there are plenty of snobby people round here. Granted though, we are pretty much in the Surrey border 😆

@Jewelanemone, probably, as we were clearly at school together. I may know some of the people you know, if you grew up there.

Yep - London since 1965 😁

I lived in Richmond for years, nice but also boring and expensive.

The clue is in the name - London Borough of Richmond upon Thames!
Not Surrey.
Unless it was Richmond, Yorkshire. In which case - still not Surrey.