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

this Surrey one

You sound lovely.

cracks me up, people using 'judgemental' as a pejorative term....

I suppose they live in some lovely village where everyone loves everyone equally and take turns to stroke the neighbourhood cats..or something.

Love Surrey. Its really just an extension of SW London to me- find the people- in my area anyway- cheery, friendly and down to earth. But some of the most beautiful surroundings, great transport/schools/high streets and you get the green surroundings and large gardens while still being 30 mins into London- dream to me! OP- you sound rather bitter and envious actually.

Actually , in comparison to 'the Surrey One' I am lovely, thank you.

I have never encouraged anyone to do heroin, for example.

I’ve not spent sufficient time in Surrey to comment on the thread (and wouldn’t want to stereotype a whole area) but am chuckling at all the comments about how there would be “outrage” if a similar thread was started about Yorkshire or somewhere in the north - really?!

In my time on MN there have been countless threads along the lines of ‘AIBU to really not want to move to the North?’, ‘What is there in the North?’, ‘I want to leave London but isn’t it grim “oop north”’. There was once a 100 comment thread of people just saying how dull my local town is and how they would never move there! I do not think this makes generalisations okay but I think people don’t realise it happens when it’s not about their home area.

If my area wasn’t so heavily chastised on MN I would probably weigh in on a discussion like this but I know how frustrating it is to have your home reduced to a stereotype on the internet by people who once had bad service in a cafe and as such will never return again.

I suppose they live in some lovely village where everyone loves everyone equally and take turns to stroke the neighbourhood cats..or something.

You haven’t read my other posts on this thread, clearly.

SoupDragon

OK, OK , soupdragon and Rhonda, if you are from Surrey , I can only apologise.
However this person did really put me off the place...

Actually , in comparison to 'the Surrey One' I am lovely, thank you.

I have never encouraged anyone to do heroin, for example.

You’ve set the bar pretty low there, haven’t you?

I’m not from Surrey, I’m from London.

I work with vulnerable families in Surrey, none of whom would match your description in a million years.

yes she was kinda low(life) tbh...but at the same time faking it as a Surrey yummy mummy...

One of our mutual friends is now dead because of her.

Anyway...let's move on shall we...?

Lived in Surrey for 25 years.

Grew up around council estates and traveller communities (in a posh area too).

There’s definitely some of what you say that’s true, but equally there’s plenty that aren’t that, and then there’s lots of ‘normal’ people too. Like anywhere.

Wish I could afford to live there, but we can’t. Everyone who grows up there but doesn’t earn tonnes of money has to move.

You misunderstood my post - I meant you’ve set the bar low if your definition of lovely is someone who doesn’t encourage drug-taking.

yes I understood that...
there is other stuff that I wont bore you with. but I have never been to anyone's house, looked around the immediate area with a wrinkled up nose, and said 'so it's just lowlife that live here is it'?
Have you? I doubt it.
As I said, let's move on..

What a narrow-minded OP! I now live in Surrey (and have for over 20 years) after moving from a not-so-great part of Cheshire. I worked my arse off to buy a nice house and to give my kids a nice life (shoot me - I was focussed on getting them into a good state school - don't we all want that?!?). I drive a 13-year-old car and when my friends and I meet up (barbecue at the weekend with a family we know from the school), we drank gin (and it was good - locally-made too .)

So your opinion of Surrey is based on a family you don't seem to like and the discussion two strangers were having that you were listening in on? We have friends all over the country who have the same kinds of discussions with friends, so I'd be interested to hear if there are other regions that you hate so much based on a snapshot of cafe conversations.

I would like to disagree but I have a friend who lives in Surrey and we regularly try and meet up for a meal out. Twice we have gone in Surrey.

First restaurant was beautiful and it was in a lovely Surrey village BUT the table next to us had 2 couples on it. I would say early 30s. And they spent the entire dinner discussing their banking bonuses and how much better it was turning left rather than right on the plane. The one husband spent the whole time taunting his wife about whether he was going to 'allow' her to be a shareholder/director in his newly set up company. I would have liked not to hear any of this but they spoke so loudly, deliberately loudly, so that people knew they had money. We had to ask to move table eventually as it was so bloody awful. They were splashing out ridiculous amounts on expensive champagne etc. and I could tell loved the fact that they felt they were being looked at. It totally ruined dinner.

On the way there, you had to drive through country lanes and I was driving v cautiously and I went past some old bloke who was waving his arms at me, so I slowed down and he screamed at me 'you bloody people, driving through here at speed' - I said err I was driving v cautiously and well within the speed limit. He insisted I wasn't (I was!).

When I was driving back, I had some bloke up my arse the whole way round, flashing me, revving his car trying to get past me. There was nowhere for me to pull in and eventually when there was a safe place to pass, he zoomed past me and shouted abuse at me out the window!

Needless to say, I have told him our dinners can remain in London and he can come to me on the train!

I know it was just one experience but it stayed with me because it was so horrific all round!

I think the nation is obsessed with house prices and good schools. I blame Kirsty and Phil.

I've never been to Surrey. I've heard its a place people from Essex aspire to move to. I don't think I would like it. Brighton is my kind of place - I can't afford to move there either.

What a bizarre point of view to hold.

I've lived in several counties and there have been people like you describe in all of them. I've only lived in the south east but my current county has many people like you describe but it's not Surrey. It also has many 'normal' people living here too.

No speed cameras I. Surrey -really ?? Why ??

I always thought The Dursleys from Harry Potter obviously lived in Surrey.
They ARE Surrey