To be surprised to see a beach brawl in Kent?

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Just seem it on the DM online ( I know I know) - I'm just surprised during these times of social distancing etc that this happened.
I've lived in Kent and can confirm we are all respectable, RP speaking, home counties residing respectable pillars of the community...

Sussex is much nicer!

MsScarlettOHara soap box seaside town? Do you mean a chocolate box seaside town?

Broadstairs is my favourite seaside town , mind you when I was a child Margate was no go on a bank holiday because of the Mods and Rockers

My older cousin and her DH live in Kent. They are not nice people. These two facts may or may not be connected.

You can tell when someone round here is from Kent they have a strong old fashioned London type accent and when you ask them why they moved they go into a scary diatribe about ethnic minorities. Only that is not the term they use.

One of my dearest and naicest friends is from Kent. However YABU for reading the Fail and for being surprised that the types who flock to crowded beaches on a bank holiday weekend when asked not to do so during a pandemic are also the types not to brawl.

I agree about Ramsgate. Absolute dump with nothing going for it. Town seems to be full of small time drug users, for whom discretion is an unknown concept.
Knew a vet who lived there who was cruel to animals, shut her pet cat in a room and left it crying and clawing all night. Was so lazy she left the animals to bite holes in bag of food, rather than feeding them. Ramsgate suited her morality!

Ramsgate & Margate were very similar when I visited.

This has made me chuckle. I worked my chavvy ass off to get out of my hometown in the Medway Towns (Medders) and now live a very naice life in a very naice part of central London, but I still typed out a very defensive post about Chatham and it's chavs

For those who don’t know Kent, it includes London suburbs, Tunbridge Wells., Canterbury, Whitstable... and Thanet.

Bromley is somewhat different from Margate.

You can tell when someone round here is from Kent they have a strong old fashioned London type accent and when you ask them why they moved they go into a scary diatribe about ethnic minorities. Only that is not the term they use.

I can well believe that @Destroyedpeople

I just knew it would be somewhere in Thanet, although like others I thought Margate.

Hate Whitstable though.

Even Tunbridge Wells has some scummy bits.

Would you expect it to be in Essex instead op?

In Thanet?
Home of Gary Glitter?

Bromley decent? The shopping centre is full of people who don’t drive or can’t afford the bus to Chavwater. The high street is full of hotdog sellers and people with huge bunches of helium balloons! The Glades is full of gangs wandering around bored out f their skulls.

Would you expect it to be in Essex instead op?

No. If we are adhering to stereotype it would be in a county with more of a shudder low income demographic shudder

goes to darkened room, crosses self, and says a few Hail Marys

I am not surprised and I live in a nice village in Kent. Some parts of the Thanet area and the Medway towns and Gravesend and Dartford and Maidstone - well you get the picture - are absolutely horrible.
Cliftonville has the highest rate of Covid-19 deaths in Kent.

Well, coming from the first town after the Wantsum, I don’t know Bromley. But I was always led to believe that it was, at the very least, somewhat posher than Margate.

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Bromley Council is very predominantly Conservative and is generally thought of as a stereotypical middle class suburb. Most people would love to be able to afford a house there.

I was expecting it to be Camber, but to be fair, the people you see in Camber on a Bank Holiday are mostly Londoners.

I thought it was Broadstairs tbh you get those types everywhere, definitely plenty in Bromley

I am exactly ten houses away from Bromley London Borough (in Greenwich to be precise but nearest shops to walk to are in Chislehurst)! I never knew Bromley was considered 'posh' but then I am not particularly sociological.

I haven't read about the beach brawl. Last time I went down to the Kent coast I stayed in Broadstairs and the year before that, Whitstable. Had a lovely time in both.

I was born in Gravesend, spent my working life in East London and now live in Chatham......that’s Chatham in Medway.

Yes, I do speak in the horrible ‘old fashioned London accent’. I don’t tend to go into diatribes about ethnic minorities though, unless it’s the one I’m married to of course.

Medway has its problems but it also has some of the nicest, kindest people you could ever meet.

You all need to learn not to judge people by where they come from or how they speak.

I thought the posh parts of Kent were Sevenoaks & Tunbridge Wells

I've been on plenty of day trips to the Thanet coastline & always found people polite.