To feel like I live in a completely different world to most mumsnetters?

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No one I know can afford to be SAHM. Wages over 20k are seen as damned good, not disparaged. Anything over 30k makes you well off. I don't even know where Lancashire's private schools are, or anyone who hires a tutor. Nannies are another urban myth that don't exist around here, it's all after school clubs and nurseries. I feel completely alienated from this place at times. Am I just a common northerners out of place on mn who should migrate to netmums, because the shockingly snobby attitudes at times tell me I should.

jacks I agree there are probably no Booths in the Mill Towns

But I think that's my point about the OP ascribing t'North as being a different country to the South. It isn't. They both have areas of affluence, areas of real poverty and areas in the middle. North and South are just not that different in my opinion. But there are huge differences between the wealthiest and the poorest areas - where ever they are geographically

moominleigh your post made my day. Perhaps I don't feel so alienated after all!

Well, I'm a Midlander who now lives in the South West - where does that leave me?!?

And as for this:

There's a large contingent of guardian reading Oxbridge educated types with nannies in half a million houses with mortgage paid off, 3 holidays a year, spend hours pontificating over what and where
the better private schools are, whilst peddling socialist views at same time: sometimes piling in on threads to support benefits claimants, saying " not their fault" whilst in real life they'd cross the road to avoid them...I've met and worked with people like this.

where are these people? I've been on here awhile now and I recognise that there are some Oxbridge educated types and there are lots of eloquent posters who have a fantastic way with words (but many of whom I know are everyday women).

I love all these sweeping generalisations about this site. How many members does MN actually have? Isn't it something 500,000 (or am I way off?). And there are people here who genuinely believe that the majority of the members are posh Londoners with big houses and nannies galore?

I think some people have dropped acid and watched Mary Poppins...

Dh and I have a good income, with a nanny and dcs who will/do go to private school. On the basis of those three facts, i find it a bit weird (I am being somewhat polite) that any one can conclude what kind of a person I am, what my values are and therefore write me off as a snob. Wow, I would hate to have such a person on my jury if I was ever falsely accused of some crime!

6cats, that's what I call - ahem - lifestyle.

I'm just not sure.

I love mn. it's helped me to try to understand my upbringing. I lurk lots on stately homes. I know that nc with my parents isn't horrific its ok. I live in London have DDs at private school and gave an after school nanny. but we've been on benefits, had cancer, battled MH issues and are now facing DD with a life long illness. I love the diversity of mn and often makes me appreciate what we now have.

I sometimes feel I'm the only person in on here who thinks grammar schools are a good thing, watching porn isn't evil, The NHS on the whole is not very good, £100 isn't a lot to spend on your spouse, you are seldom to old to wear anything and that actually most of us are not always sweetness and light to live with. Then I go and have lunch with m old school friends and realist that I'm not alone in my views.

True Higgle. There is MN world. And RL.

I love both.

OP, this is a big enough board that you'll find like-minded souls. I think you're right that certain demographics may be over-represented here, but the best thing you can do is stick around and dilute it

I have already admitted I was mistaken earlier upthread :D, booze to blame!

I can deal with the class war, it's the verging-on-weird attitudes to normal social interactions, like visiting your friend, sending a Christmas card or buying a present for a child, that get me. Any social thing that isn't pre-planned a long time in advance, and expressly vetted and okayed first, is a ghastly imposition by a thoughtless and selfish wanker, who deserves to be ostracised and publicly corrected.