Upset by friends comments or am I being sensitive?

[zaraaraz]

Old friend, went to the same school together and even worked together as teenagers.

I stayed in the same city and she moved to London.

I’ve just been to visit her for the weekend and she probably said 10 times how shit my city is and how she could never live there again etc.

I did snap at her once and said - I mean you do know I still live there right?

Like I don’t know .... I’m happy if you moved away and found a place that suits you more but it doesn’t mean you have to shit on others and feel superior.

For context, she is a nurse and so can find work likely anywhere and also has good opportunities to make friends within work.

Id say "stop telling me how shit you think it is here! It's rude! Im happy here thank you".
You're not sensitive to be a bit irked by this imo

Very rude.
Also in general when one is genuinely happy there is no need to denigrate others.

She sounds insecure about the move to London tbh. It's almost like she's trying to convince you that moving to London has made her so happy, so that she actually believes it herself.

No one that is genuinely happy has to harp on about somewhere they used to live. It's weird.

I had this with my sister when she returned from a year living in Australia, in the end I had to point out that I had spent a lot of money to buy a house in our home town and choose to raise children here and she soon shut up and bought a house nearby

It is very rude. She doesn't sound like much of a friend to be honest.

I would guess that something is seriously lacking in her own life that she feels the need to make snide comments like that. Perhaps the London lifestyle isn't everything she hoped it would be?

I hate when people do that kind of thing. It's just snobbery to keep mouthing off about it. Even if someone does feel that way about a place, to have zero tact is so rude.

I live in a small Northern town and one of my friends always makes comments and digs about it. So rude.

"This is my home. So keep your opinions to yourself, please"

She's not by any chances reacting to comments you / others make is she? I get this every time I visit my old home town, comments like 'oh when are you moving back', 'I can't understand why you live there', 'isn't about time you left', ' are you sure that you still want to live there'. I get it from everyone, from my parents, to close friends, distant family friends, the bloke in the corner shop... a few times I've found myself snapping that I wouldn't move back to this place if I were paid. I don't mean if, and, eventually, I fancy I might move back. But it will be when I'm good and ready, not because everyone and their dog thinks I should. I digress, but I wonder whether she's just reacting to lots of people having an opinion on what she should do?