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

That1950sMum, I know Dorking well, it's glorious to drive that way, Leith Hill looks wonderful.

You call them, Gilly, do you mean on the phone? Cold calls? Not representative if so. Nearly everybody hates that regardless of where they pay their council tax!

Yeah driving through Dorking area - what a shithole

" The rest are arse holes who think they are so important, snobby, and downright nasty. "

oh let's be honest, there are arseholes everywhere...

There was a Real Housewives of the Surrey Hills a few years ago but it never took off. I don’t know why because I knew a couple of the women involved and they were hilariously bonkers. I once said to one of them I wasn’t going to fly with my dc until he was around 5 and hopefully slightly more manageable (he was about 6 months then). She looked at me as if I’d said I regularly leave him with a paedophilic and said ‘why on earth not? It’s ever so easy, especially if you get a night flight. You get a little crib that clips to the side of the bed and it’s just like being at home.’ Absolutely no idea that I might not be flying first class, despite the fact she knew I worked in a call centre at the time.

I grew up in Godalming, and lived there for the first 24 years of my life. My family still live there and I'd love to move back but no way could I afford to buy there. Houses where I live now are less than half the price, and a good 50% more square footage for my money.
Sad really...

I live in Surrey and love a good chat about schools and love nothing more than checking out houses on rightmove and I'm ok with that 😄

Four

Of course, and I did say some are absolutely lovely. You can tell they are rich from their address and our google maps, they are really nice.
Some are complete arse holes though, even though they have booked a call with you.
Yes, you can get this anywhere but I seem to find more arse holes from Surrey than say Blackpool or Birmingham or Leicester e.g

Gilly can I ask the general area you are from?

" I seem to find more arse holes from Surrey than say Blackpool or Birmingham or Leicester e.g "

perhaps you should do a study on it, with questionnaires and sample analysis, ANOVA analysis, and so on , then have it peer reviewed..it would be a great topic for a PhD, don't you think?

We could help design the questionnaire...:)

Maybe there are more arseholes in Surrey than any of the towns you mention because it is a whole county. That's like saying there are more idiots in Wales than in Cardiff. You take a bigger area, you'll find more arseholes than in a smaller one. Doesn't really prove your point Gilly

Yes Gilly, maybe we could operationalise the term 'arsehole' by your definition- someone who doesn't want to buy whatever it is you are selling? Someone with a middle class accent and therefore is fair game to be called an arsehole? Someone who youve already judged before you call them because you've looked up whether they are rich on google maps?

I get the culture of 'Surrey Mums' as per my previous posts, but to make sweeping statements that there are more 'arseholes' here than anyone else is just a joke.

While many have a lot of money and very privileged lifestyles, this does not mean they are rude and arsehole-like. In my anecdotal evidence, the complete opposite in fact. But it's acceptable to call them names because they're well off and have a middle class accent.

Urban sprawl near me...

Looks ghastly Sadie and there'll be an arsehole behind every tree!

That1950smum

We were up in Yorkshire this weekend (very beautiful) and were moaning about coming home. Got about 5 mins from home and both admitted that actually, home was pretty beautiful too.

Shit isn't it That1950smum

I love Surrey. Moved here 7 years ago after living most of my life in a grotty seaside town. Schools here are great. House prices are ridiculous. Now the kids are older & out of school we're moving to somewhere bigger out of school catchment, but probably still Surrey. Id love to stay here but simply can't afford it!

Bees that sounds like faux naivety to me though - like she was trying to force you to say that (rather obviously, like 99.9% of the population, or whatever) you were not flying first class. I knew a few of those types at school. On the other hand, the rich bubble is strong so maybe she had genuinely forgotten there was any other class.

Oh to have that 'sprawl', SadieHH, looks absolutely beautiful. Where is that?

SIL lives there and she’s lovely but it was very much like that when we first met her friends, it actually made me feel a bit depressed. They were dripping with labels and their conversation revolved around possessions and houses and schools. So image conscious. I felt like they were acting in a way, I couldn’t tell who they really were at all.

I lived in Guildford as a kid in the 80s I have great memories of it. Our street was small semis but with huge gardens, and all young families. We were in and out of each other's houses all the time . Gradually all the other families zoomed up the career ladder and started moving away to bigger and bigger houses. All my parents friends had big cars, au pairs, a couple had summer country houses, all the dads did windsurfing there were constant parties with us kids rattling around - it was great fun as a kid but think hard for my parents who did ok but were nowhere near as wealthy as their friends.
I googled the little semi we lived in and it's now on sale for half a million - my parents bought it for 30 thousand so u can understand house prices being a talking point

It’s the Home Counties, southern England thing. Not just Surrey, Berkshire also. Only my observations having spent a large chunk of my working life there. Of course a sweeping generalisation and there are lovely bits of countryside, nice people and some pockets of deprivation I found it to be more deprived by comparison though) If you like that sort of secure unquestioning lifestyle then you will aspire to move there and I guess if you know nothing else you will stay.

I really disliked it. The expensive pubs full of the braying men and identikit wives. I wanted to have a t- shirt printed with my job, pay, house type and kids school printed on so I could skip past that horrible probing conversation and get to something interesting. The rougher pubs were just that, rough and full of shameless characters. There was no decent mix of people where you were valued for just your banter

Brought up in Surrey, not bothered by it and moved away as soon as I could.
Lived in London, worked in London, all good.
Moved back to Surrey, clearly the wrong part of Surrey for me and just accepted it,but the next bit, well, I was very happy there and wanted to stay. Forced to move back to London and hate it, would love to be back in the last place.

The thing is, everyone here is concerned about property prices, crime levels, car theft, finding nannies, gardeners, just like Surrey. However, the air in Surrey is fresher, gardens bigger, burglary rates lower than where I am now. If someone offered me enough to move next week and I could go back I would be off like a shot. The people here are the same or worse.

Nursy - what?

Oh please, like people ask you your pay in a pub because you're in the Home Counties.