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What's the most stuck up place you've been to?

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UrbanMan27 · 13/04/2023 20:09

Having just recently seen a video of a young man doing a video of Farnham on TikTok saying it's Tory and stuck up etc.

I was wondering if you've come across any town that has had stuck up people and what was your thoughts on such a place?

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DancingWithTheMoonlitKnight · 13/04/2023 22:03

Discrimination against up places? 🤣

There's plenty of threads about the worst place you have been. Don't see you crying over those.

LakieLady · 13/04/2023 22:03

FirstnameSuesecondnamePerb · 13/04/2023 21:20

Berko
Harpenden
Henley
St Albans
and Tunbridge feckin Wells! Sorry Royal Tunbridge feckin Wells- I was corrected by some fecker that lived there( I had the misfortune of working there for a year).

Parts of Tunbridge Wells are posh, but most of it's pretty normal. My SIL has lived there for years, in 3 different areas, and always had nice friendly neighbours etc. SIL comes from the same rough Croydon council estate as me, and doesn't find it stuck up at all. She's made loads of friends in the 15 years or so she's been there, and they all seem really normal and down to earth, even the ones that live in a £2m house.

Admittedly, she sometimes adds the "Royal" to the name of the town, but she does it as a pisstake.

proppy · 13/04/2023 22:04

Have reported this entire thread for discrimination.

oops we've hit a nerve

DancingWithTheMoonlitKnight · 13/04/2023 22:04

Stuck up*

Ilovelblue · 13/04/2023 22:04

GCAcademic · 13/04/2023 21:14

Kingham, in the Cotswolds.

Is that where Daylesford is? I've been to the farm shop a few times when on holiday in the area. The last time I went in, I didn't buy a thing - the prices were never cheap but had gone sooo expensive, I wouldn't buy anything on principle.

beeskipa · 13/04/2023 22:04

I did a weeklong residency trip to one of the colleges at Oxford Uni as a 14 year old on a gifted & talented programme. I cried down the phone to my mum pretty much every day because so many people I met were so rude and condescending about my accent, my hometown, being from a council house, etc. I genuinely didn't think it would be an issue - a few people had made jokes about it being snobby but I assumed they were just stereotyping. Was bloody awful, glad I went elsewhere in the end!

Windingdown · 13/04/2023 22:04

Can a thread discriminate?

Felixss · 13/04/2023 22:04

Nowhere I'm working class and live in Cheshire, I do have a very good income. I have learnt most people are all fur coat and no knickers. The most flashy , snobby people are the most insecure and normally living on credit. No one makes me feel inferior anymore. I go where I like. My SIL tries to but I know she's skint and Mil gives her handouts (mil told me).

FlyingLemur · 13/04/2023 22:05

emmathedilemma · 13/04/2023 21:45

Bristol university open day / interview

Oddly, that’s mine too. It was what immediately came to my mind when I read the thread title. Although only the open day part as I found it so stuck up, I didn’t apply there.

PolkaDotMankini · 13/04/2023 22:05

@DailyMaui that sounds horrible but Grin at the thought of rodents tiptoeing around the boundary of his house, whispering to each other that they mustn't disturb an owner-occupier.

proppy · 13/04/2023 22:06

There was a hotel in Salcombe where some of the staff were very snooty

Drumminganimal · 13/04/2023 22:07

Museya15 · 13/04/2023 21:55

I was born and bred there, I can tell you it was a massive shite hole in the 70s 80s and 90s, you would not have went out when dark. The three storey houses that are worth millions now, were mostly derelict with squatters living there years. Couldnt believe when I went back there ten years ago how much it has changed.

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I remember people who had lived there many years telling me that. As you say it had massively changed. I guess because it's so near to the City so people who worked there had moved to Islington.

SerafinasGoose · 13/04/2023 22:07

slamfightbrightlight · 13/04/2023 21:56

I went to university there many moons ago and absolutely recognise this description! It thinks it’s so liberal and progressive but in my experience it really isn’t. Did have some truly debauched nights out down there mind you 😁

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I was following a well-dressed gentlemen down one of the main shopping streets in Brighton when he passed a homeless person (in a doorway with sleeping bags etc), spat at him, and called him a fucking hobo, a dosser and a wanker.

The homeless person was understandably blindsided and shocked, stood up and there was a strong and loud diatribe of words and several threats exchanged. Well-dressed gentleman walks up to two police officers who were in the adjoining street and starts pointing back toward the homeless guy, obviously complaining that he'd been the perpetrator.

I approached the homeless man and gave him every bit of spare change I had (wasn't much, was under a tenner). I told him I'd wait with him in case the police came back with the abusive bloke and would tell them exactly what I saw. The well-dressed man eventually moved on and the police didn't approach. Homeless guy appreciated the money and kept expressing his bewilderment about what had just happened - he'd done nothing to provoke it whatsoever.

Another bloke on the same day approached me and started getting really in my face about wearing a Satanic inverted cross. It wasn't a cross; it was a pear-shaped pendant with two stones on either side.

Of course these were your average, garden variety pricks - you get them everywhere - but given Brighton's liberal progressive reputation, as a first visit it didn't leave a great impression. Maybe the homeless belong to the wrong kind of marginalized group.

LightDrizzle · 13/04/2023 22:07

Harrogate. In a rugger-bugger way. Not aristo posh, just loads-of-money private school posh.

DerekFaker · 13/04/2023 22:08

Mumsnet.

Mirabai · 13/04/2023 22:10

A bunch of French aristocrats I met in St Germain in Paris who wanted to bring back the French monarchy. Obsessed with both lineage and appearance. I thought fondly of the guillotine.

Jenniferturkington · 13/04/2023 22:11

MiniTheMinx · 13/04/2023 20:52

Ditchling in East Sussex. All of them up their own bum holes.

Chichester and Horsham are lovely.

Oh my god, yes, Ditchling. They think they are so special and a cut above. It’s a traffic hell hole too.
Lewes also. They even have their own currency 🙄

PolkaDotMankini · 13/04/2023 22:12

I went to an Oxford outreach day when I was in VIth form, encouraging poor people to apply. The admissions tutor speaking was a posh twat from St John's College, who dedicated part of the day to telling us what not to do if we were offered an interview. His examples of outrageous interview behaviour were based on mimicking the accents, gestures and idioms of past applicants. Message taken home: do not bother applying if you are poor or black. Bastard.

Warriormum1 · 13/04/2023 22:13

PolkaDotMankini · 13/04/2023 20:33

A baby sensory class in Harpenden. It was typical "wave scarf at baby then stick a pot of thyme in their face". No one spoke to me. DS was 10 weeks old and alternated between feeding and crying the whole way through. One of the other mums looked at me pityingly and told me in a loud voice that her DD had loved the class ever since she started coming at eight weeks old.

I have thought of many witty comebacks in the 13 years since then but at that moment I decided the class wasn't for me.

"wave scarf at baby then stick a pot of thyme in their face" 😂😂😂

Oneborneverydecade · 13/04/2023 22:14

Lysianthus · 13/04/2023 22:02

I came on to say Bitchling but you got here first. East Chiltington is a close, albeit niche, second.

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West Chiltington is not much better

I don't dislike Ditchling - it's quite old school arty?

Maria1982 · 13/04/2023 22:15

cakewitch · 13/04/2023 21:13

Midsummer House restaurant in Cambridge.

Oh my god yes!!! 20’years ago. Went for big celebration. So overly formal, stilted, but crucially - food really not that good! So I thought, what’s all the fuss about …

RedToothBrush · 13/04/2023 22:17

HectorPlasm · 13/04/2023 21:50

I'm amazed Krutsford is on this list. I live 5 miles away and find the people there very friendly indeed

Knutsford is definitely snobby.

It has it's very down to earth residents but by god are others snobby.

Alderley is full of jumped up pricks who think they can buy / own everyone else.

LINABE · 13/04/2023 22:20

RenoDakota · 13/04/2023 21:07

You don't have to have a chip on your shoulder to despair that your part of the world has been colonised by braying twats.

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😂😂😂

FunnysInLaJardin · 13/04/2023 22:23

I was fully expecting to find Jersey on this list. Happily not!

AnnaMagnani · 13/04/2023 22:23

This thread is just a list of places I've lived, places my DH has lived, and anywhere we have gone on holiday.

Not been to Cheshire but clearly I'd fit in straightaway Blush

Poshest place I've ever been would be Daylesford Organic in Westbourne Grove. Needed a sandwich, didn't realise I'd need a second mortgage.