Surrey - Home to Britian's Most Prestigious Professionals and Executives

[PST7777]

Surrey has everything a woman of a certain class could ask for. Surrey is home to the top private primary schools in Britain, beautiful golf and tennis clubs, riding facilities, forests, hills, superb shopping in towns like Guildford, Godalming and Dorking, haute cuisine dining in restaurants for every taste, quick and easy train access to the City, Holborn, Bloomsbury or Harley Street if DH is employed in finance, the bar, academia or medicine. Simply paradise. I couldn't imagine why any woman who has been blessed with bounty could want to reside anywhere else.

Well I think she's right. Surrey is home to Britain's most prestigious professionals ans executives, isn't it? Highest concentration of prestige per head than any other English county. Everyone knows that!

You tell 'em, PST.

(Although I can't help pointing out that 'ans' for 'and' is a typo; 'you better' as in PST's last post is just slovenly grammar. Not very prestigious, I'm afraid.)

She's trying Clockface :o

Is her username prestigious enough?

Why certainly, Clockface. I just love speaking the truth to so many of these middle-class self-loathing, white, liberal, trendy, North London Guardianista, 'save the wales', Liberal-Democrat voting, far-left types that I simply must reassert the Britain I come from and love, and put it right in their faces. I wish they'd all stay on blogs geared for the Islington, Hampstead, Golders Green crowd and leave middle England out of their self-destructive dream. And yes, Theresa May is a hero of mine, and I'm very much impressed with her role in the Conservative Party.

Save the Wales. Hahaha.

How about 'ASurreyLadyOfACertainClass'? Then we'd be in no doubt about her credentials (we weren't in any doubt, were we? Were we?)

The answer has to be (b).

And you're definitely not British.

I'm aghast that I might actually know this person.

Did anyone else almost cry when they read what OP said about some of the upper class old aristocricy (sic) being obliged to work for a living?

As opposed to ASurreyWithAFringeOnTop...

Ooooooooooooooooaklahoma where the winds start something something plains...

As you were.

I guess my family are the upper class old aristocracy she's referring to - and I work. We all do. Shock horror.

And using Daily Mail stats for examples is hardly classy, IMHO.

PST77777 - the problem you have is that you are over egging the pudding somewhat.

Malinios, she is a he and drives a white van?

Smartarse - yes, indeed.

at Daily Mail - the very definition of Middle England petit bourgeoise reading material (except they hate the French - let's say shopkeepers).

My DH calls himself working class - father a master watchmaker, mother a school secretary. His mother is the quintessential DM reader.

I'm going for b) too. Anyone else?

(sorry, my French is crap - did German and Japanese at school instead.)

Although to be fair to Surrey, part of the lovely 'A Room with a View' by E.M. Forster is set in Surrey and it is described as a rural idyll. Funny that the OP didn't capitalise on Surrey's literary prestige, choosing to focus more on the Daily Mail. Oh well...

Arf at beanlet and ' the wind starts something something plains'.

Those should be the actual lyrics.

Stop being mean about Surrey just because the op is annoying. Surreys nice enough

I used to live near George Harrison in Oxfordshire. Nice house.

Obviously b) but I really don't like seeing this caricature of my county. I really shouldn't rise to it I know.

Oh, and West Surrey is very lovely. There are a lot of problems though.

It's getting harder and harder for young people, particularly from agricultural families, to carry on living where they grew up and it's harder and harder to make a living from farming. There is little sheep farming any more and most of the orchards have gone.

The only way to make money from farming here is high-value market gardening, but then you get people like PST7777 bleating about polytunnels spoiling their view.

Equestrian facilities are also closing down all over due to ridiculous insurance premiums. I'm worried that we will eventually just end up as another dormitory for people who get the train to London every day :(

Clockface - yes odd she didn't mention George Eliot or Tennyson. Or Lutyens and Gertrude Jekyll. Or the Watts Gallery. An endorsement from the Daily Hate though - well, that's something...

You're definitely American OP.

Personally I like Surrey, but it's the wrong side of London for us, so .

Actually, it is a bit offensive, isn't it really? A bit like someone coming on here pretending to be Scottish and saying 'see you Jimmy' and 'och aye the noo' and talking about living off deep fried Mars bars. Caricatures are never pretty. Sorry if I've contributed.

I've been with b) all along.

If I were from Surrey or lived there (I'm not sure I've ever been anywhere in Surrey and I find it difficult to distinguish between all the counties down there, even when I lived in one of them), I'd be quite offended at how the OP has caricatured it's inhabitants.

Yes this thread has run its course

I like living in Surrey, the town where we live has its fair share of snobbism but also a lot of very hard working 'normal' people

And as malinois said there are a lot of problems too, especially regading local and traditional jobs.