I hate Surrey

[BettyBeer]

Is that unreasonable? I properly hate it.
I don't live there but most of my family do. Everyone seems to be obsessed with property prices, extensions and who's in the best bloody school! I even went to a cafe away from my family and the two tables close to us were discussing house prices and where the best catholic schools were.

Sorry if you live there but it just all seems to be greedy, self important twats. Am I wrong to make a sweeping statement about so many people? probably

Jeremy sounds like a proper Surrey man/woman.

It's a shame he wasn't as well educated as some of his neighbours. I'm glad I don't have to spend time with him as he makes grammatical errors and spelling mistakes.

Ghastly!

I'm glad you noticed Betty, good on you 😊

I feel for you.

Went on holiday to a place full of them last year

too loud, no fucking clue how to behave and utterly entitled.

This is the other end of the spectrum to AI mega-resorts, but the behaviour was just as undesirable.

The BRAYING!!

NEVER. AGAIN.

Jeremy, I was brought up by parents that had the same attitude as you. I was a little scamp though and when invited to tea at the house of a girl that lived on the council estate I insisted on going and my mother was horrified. She was even more horrified when I insisted we reciprocate the invitation.

Suffice to say I re-educated my parents with their snobbish views on the undesirables.

I've just asked my daughter about the swearing and drunkenness on an all inclusive holiday, she said it sounds about right for the entitled, wannabe upper middles 😂

@Jeremy71

Funnily enough Surrey isn't even mentioned in the top 20 places in the UK with low crime rate....

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.countryliving.com/uk/wellbeing/advice/amp1452/safest-places-to-live-in-britain/

This is the thing, people in Surrey are snobs about non-factual claims they make!

Jeremy71

Yes it really is, a rifle for wildlife and a handgun for personal protection.

Oh but Brighton and Hove just made it in to the safe places list!

Not sure how to be honest, probably just the optimistic attitude of the residents as I don't think it was based on crime stats!

OP - most of my family are from Crewe In Cheshire. TBH if you were to stick a map in Britain, Crewe wouldn't possibly be the tourist boards number one hot spot. But I don't 'proper hate' the place or people enough to write a thread. You do come across as having such a chip. Why visit? Stay home or just limit yourself to places that tick your approval boxes.

Sounds like people Bristol and surrounding areas. We simply need to move north

I hate Surrey too and I live here. Only here coz close to work for husband. I feel like the odd one out as everyone around me loves it and i can't understand it. Tis neither city nor country. Loads of gated houses. Urgh. I can't wait to leave. Though I'm not sure we will be as got children and gives them space and bit of green. Zzzz. So so dull here.

Not a very catholic attitude Jeremy!!

pickledparsnip

In my mind it's naff central. The houses all look so boring! I want to go and sprinkle some wild flower seeds in the middle of those immaculate lawns.

This 🔝 lol

So so dull here

What makes a place exciting & interesting?

what makes a place exciting & interesting?

Diverse people with interesting viewpoints, different experiences in their lives to share. And a community with meeting up points where you can go and hear em. So that means places where nobody is excluded because they don’t have right clothes, or accent, or enuff money for a drink at the bar.
For instance our little town has a brewery on an industrial estate, sandwiched between plumbers merchants and a car dealer - it’s open on a Friday night from 4. Beers £2.50 a pint. Every one goes. Sits outside on pic tables and beer crates. A couple of millionaires, joiners, plumbers, pensioners, sales reps. Some bloke playing a piano. Lots banter. Never found such a place in Surrey.
The point is, unless you are a complete pollock like Jeremy, nobody is undesirable

I used to work with someone who lives in a £5 million Cobham mansion. He and all his family are incredibly naff. Full of aspiration and zero taste or subtlety.

Sounds lovely nursy1
But you don’t have to be poor or an immigrant to be interesting.

@Jeremy71, I’m from a small town near Woking and went to an outstanding private Catholic school; Camberley and Farnborough Hill respectively. I couldn’t wait to leave the area as it was so incredibly narrow minded and right wing. Self awareness is a really important thing. You can feel privileged to live somewhere so affluent (which I did) but also acknowledge it’s a bit of a bubble, full of Tory voting Daily Mailers. Plus, the Surrey Rugger Buggers drink waaaaaaaay too much

I was raised in Surrey from the age of 7 years old. I bought our house here 5 years ago and myself, my wife (from Brighton) and my DD are super happy here.

Yes you get the Range Rover Velar, 4 million Octagon home in Cobham types, but below the flashy surface with these people braying, it’s a wonderfully safe and fun place to grow up. I have lifelong friends here from primary school; a few are earning around national average, no parental help, not living in flashy houses, and we just do normal things . There’s no aspirational talk, no flashing around material stuff in conversation.

Yes I work for a bank, am Oxbridge, like gin, my previous car was a Jaguar, so maybe I tick every box for people on here who want to hate from the environs of their phone/computer. But these are things I quietly enjoy (if I didn’t discuss them on here). I chose this life and I am happy with it; not smug, not conceited, I’m just happy living where I want to live and not harming anyone else.

Surrey is full of beautiful villages, interesting folk, and has the best transport links I could hope for. I love it here and have no plans on leaving so I can boast how Lidl/Skoda and sensible I can be living somewhere where people are less showy. I’m not them, I’m me and I’m fine with that.

Was goIng to say also that I’m a lifelong (since 17) Labour Party member and I openly debate against right wing views. Yes Surrey is horribly Tory but they won’t drive me out of my home county where I’ve lived most my life

Here's just a few lovely things to go do & see in lovely Surrey:-

• Lingfield - The British Wildlife centre
• Shere Village and surrounding area for walks inc Silent Pool
• Hampton Court Palace
• Frensham Great Pond, for picnics and a dip.
• Thorpe waterskiing, turn up and do the line thing.
• Wisley rhs
• Winkworth Arboretum

We have lots. Too much actually. Far from dull. We like it and all the above places are friendly of families from anywhere.

But you don’t have to be poor or an immigrant to be interesting

Well no surferjet. I didn’t say that though, the millionaires and the business owners go too - they have a tale or two to tell.

Hmm, hmm, @tinkobell Hampton Court Palace is actually in Richmond so therefore London, but Gid forbid you tell that to anyone living in Surrey

Is Richmond no longer in Surrey? I thought it counted as Surrey. Hampton Court Palace is lovely but I was raised on Leeds Castle Maze. I was sorely disappointed to find I had to find my way out of the maze again once I’d got to the middle at Hampton Court. Only in Surrey would you have to put up with that shit

@Stillnotready....yes you are right. The postcode for HC is Richmond though it is 3 steps from East Molesey and a few miles from Richmond town. Thank you.

@MrsJackson.....boo hoo! First world problems eh....how to find ones way out of an English Heritage Maze! Zzzzzzzzzz