To think Surrey is the most boring place on earth?

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DSis has moved there recently with her two kids, so they can get a dog and have more of a villagey feel.
I visited and my lord was it dull.

The people I met were all the same. All of them commuted into the city. Law or Finance, take your pick. They all dressed in the same country-esque garb, thinking they were in the deep English countryside. (No Veronica put down countrylife, you live in Surrey). Probably went to Oxbridge.

It seems to be very tory, all very much competing with each other. Keeping up with the Joneses whilst thinking secretly they’re too good for their 4 bed semi worth £1mil.

AIBU?

I live in Kingston upon Thames and thought I lived in Surrey so this is very illuminating

@DontCallMeCharlotte Was thrilled to see today Farthing Downs are to be given protected status insidecroydon.com/2019/04/06/happy-valley-to-be-granted-national-nature-reserve-status/ by the City of London Corp

I found the OP funny. My parents have a house in Surrey from when they used to commute into the city And, yes, I've always found it incredibly dull and full of people who (if you didn't already know where they lived) would claim it was either "London" or "The county". I did find it very boring there, and I'm from Shropshire (the beautiful county full of nothing!)

Lincolnshire people are terminally apathetic, which is the reason I have never lived anywhere else.

Years ago I worked in central london with an old guy who said he "come up from Surrey". He meant Bermondsey (a pp mentioned about the original Surrey border, just backing it up).
Is Kew gardens in Surrey? If so it's infinitely better than lots of other counties.

These threads appear regularly for a reason. My parents for some reason moved us to Guildford when I was 8 years old. It was an incredibly dull place to grow up. Honestly the Spectrum centre, Downs, High Street and some twee villages nearby does not make it vibrant. You have to travel to London for any real excitment or culture (but hey- great transport links)!
I got out as soon as I could moved around and have lived for over 18 years in an amazing northern city. DD born here and has never lived anywhere else. I travel down a lot to see family and friends and it is painful. The obsession with house prices, appearances and private education is constant. Every time I meet up with some of their friends I constantly get patronised because why would anyone choose to live in the north except for house prices being cheap? Apart from the fact that actually living a thriving city means this is not true. We have world renound opera, ballet and several theatres on the doorstep. These are all cheap taxi ride into town and there are loads of shops, clubs, restaurants, bars, sport centres. Then there is world famous countryside within 30 mins.
I am living in the biggest law and banking centre outside of London and there are 3 universities, one Russel Group, the other two experts in certain fields.
Yet go to bloody Guildford, God-dam-awfulming etc and apparently we have it worse.DD is treated like an urchin because she has a northern accent and not at Tormead or Guildford High. She is obviously not going to go far in life . As it happens she is getting the same grades in her state school as those we know and is a happy, accomplished tween who has far better social skills than any Surrey tween I have ever met .
In essance we are happier and winning at life, despite being suddenly widowed and DD having to cope with losing her dad at 8 years old. Everyone living in Surrey will jump on this and say how amazing surrey is. It is fine if you like that sort of thing but it will never be exciting or multicultural. That is some people want, with good transport links.

A former colleague moved to Lincolnshire. She called it 'God's waiting room.'

Come to Bedfordshire. We feature regularly on police 24 hours .........not boring....more like fucking Game of Thrones.

I love Shropshire it is beautiful. But it is proper rural. Surrey is neither nowt nor summation which is the real problem with it I think.

Nowt nor summation? Predictive text clearly doesn’t recognise northern dialects

Probably from Surrey

Surrey and Essex will always attract strong opinions from people...

I suspect so long as you avoid the bits of Surrey that are regularly recommended as being excellent for access to particular schools, you will avoid most of the identikit bores who lack the imagination to consider elsewhere. Not that this means you will find somewhere delightful to live, of course, but you might find a bit more variety in the people!

At least Surrey isn't grim like it is Up North.

At least Surrey isn't grim like it is Up North

I love you soupdragon

Another Surrey bashing thread?

@checkingforballoons that must of taken all of one second ! Hardly suburbia's getto. Maybe try Croydon next, at least that gives you chance to lock your doors.

I live in Kingston upon Thames and thought I lived in Surrey so this is very illuminating

You must have been really confused about paying for the Mayor of London all this time.

When you write your address as 1 xxxxx Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT2 xxx you kind of think you’re living in Surrey.

Do people still write their county as part of their address when all you need is the postcode and house number?

You know that you don’t need to write the county at all?

Postal counties became out of sync with administrative after 1974. But they haven’t been in use since 1996 - meaning that you haven’t needed to write Surrey for longer than the Surrey postal county was out of sync with reality.

Royal Mail totally ignores the county if you write it in an address.

All you need to write is your house number and postcode, the rest is superfluous.

I do, but I write Sussex as I disapprove of the Great Dividing of 1974.

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I do, but I write Sussex as I disapprove of the Great Dividing of 1974.

That’ll show them.

Oh hurrah. It must be at least a week since we had a Surrey bashing thread.

I'm on the border. I always tell people it's 'Surrey Actually'. County /village stereotypes are just a bit of fun. It's a very British / English eccentricity thing.