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?

willstarttomorrow you made me really laugh. I’m from Surrey, Surrey girl through and through. I’m a right snob, (can’t help it 😏) went to Tormead and am proud and milk it when I can. We have 6 foot fences to keep the riffraff out, and we don’t have to talk to the neighbours ( I’m all right Jack) twirly washing lines hidden (god forbid the neighbours see the washing ) My dad is a retired financial director, advises me all the time what to do with my money, and I just want to fritter it away lol.

I live in Hertfordshire, going through a divorce and I want to move to the North where’s there is some life !!! Think I’ll move to Scottish castle as far away from everyone down south, swan around in my neglige and feather ball slippers, and be proud of my Surrey accent.

My family will be horrified lol

I've lived in a lot of the south. I think London is overrated but mostly because I like nature more than people (not counting the kids of course!) and a lot of other towns and cities have both. There are nice bits of Surrey. I have had some great days out there. But the bits I've lived in are pretty grim and overpriced to boot. I wouldn't rule out living there again, though. Maybe when the kids are all grown I'll get a nice little cottage somewhere in the Surrey Hills, get a dog or two and discover my walking boots. Or maybe I'll win the lottery and buy a 3 bed semi in Guildford

Or a decent job offer 🤷🏻‍♀️

Re county divisions, I still say I was born in Lancashire because when I was born there, Liverpool was still in that county. Having none of this newfangled Merseyside rubbish

If I want to confuse people I can say I was born in Caer Odor (lovely name....) and then they wonder why I'm not Welsh.

My aunt's back garden backs on to Tormead. Best I can do.

I was brought up in a twee village near Guildford. It was certainly full of “old money” and privately educated posh old ladies. It was quite boring though. The countryside was nice but I didn’t like the snobbism. My Dad voted labour and was seen as an eccentric (possibly dangerous) Trotskyite.

Most of the pubs in Surrey serve really boring 1980’s standard pub food. Cross the border to Sussex and you’ll get far more inventive menus. In street fashion, art, design and food Surrey is THE most disingenuous and dull, conservative county in the UK - and with NO excuse. Being so close to London you’d hope for a little bit of edge! I told a Surrey mum recently that I found it a very conservative county. and she took that as a compliment - I suppose she was thinking I meant pollitically. When I explained that my criticism was.that Surrey is conservative with a small c, she still seemed to think that was a compliment! Oh the irony, just proving my point! It did amuse me! !! As my neice from Leeds said, the north has style and edge in abudance in comparison to Surrey - which I promise you is the creative doldrums of the UK. Very pretty in parts, full of roundabouts and petrol stations and ugly red brick mansions in others, it is THE most conservative (with a small c) and un-creative, homogenous county in the UK, IMO. And unbelievably religious!!! We left a west london prep school where thankfully literally no-one believed in God, only to subject our children to a prep school community which was 90% Christian. I’m proud to say that our entire nation is sufficiently intelligent, worldly and well-educated to have worked that percentage well downwards since Victorian times. For me, it sums up Surrey… boring boring boring religious conformists who are stick in the muds with some lovely wooded hills, and a few lonely and blessed rebels who are fun and mostly our friends (actually very normal people if you put them elsewhere, and possibly rather conservative in London, but definitely rebels in Surrey) and a population which does’t look beyond their own stuck up noses, a lot of brash and tasteless new money, in the hands of aggressive street fighters with no gentility who think they are important and who lack culture, finesse and independent thought.

Move to St Albans Herts - where they iron the pavements and count the gravel . So dull dull dull...

Yes I think Herts is a very boring “grey” county. But less brash and aggressive than Slurrey. Although also a creative desert.

7 year old thread alert....

Surrey (UK) is not even the most boring Surrey on Earth.