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

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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.

Hee hee. Lots of traffic though, like everywhere else in the south east.

And you are surrounded by [upper] middle class pushy professionals.

Every day I wake up, look out of the window (at the mist/rain on the hills) and thank god we moved up to Cumbria.

The last time I was in any kind of traffic jam was visiting Cambridge a few months ago. Up here they say "ooh the traffic's terrible today" merely if there are quite a few cars in the town centre with the result you can't go faster than 20 mph.

Schools obviously not that great then, Coco?

Why are school not that great- how did you draw that concluson?

Yes like any county there are dreadful one's and some amazing one's and one's somewhere inbetween.

"I couldn't imagine why any woman who has been blessed with bounty could want to reside anywhere else."

cos it's dull and filled with social-climbing twerps?

I'm sure Leith Hill is lovely. But its one fairly small place.

I can't imagine ever saying "lets go to Surrey for our holiday this year". Nor have I ever met anyone who's had a desire to go to Surrey on holiday. Therefore it can't be that great. But 1000s of people come to the Peak District and other such places on holiday.

Lets be honest: if we could live anywhere but the South-East and close to airports, we might well live somewhere else (I dont come from Surrey). But as jobs mean we have to live here, and the kids have got to that age in schools, then here we live. Personally I'd quite like to have some huge pile in Rutland for our normal 4 bed detached here, and could afford private schools too then; but then would we have the same income? Also I might miss being able to just pop into London, and all the theatre etc.
Surrey is fine, the OP sounds like one of the many posh free magazines we get, not like any real people I've met (and I have friends with kids at Private school, houses with swimming pools and tennis courts and so on).

Personally I prefer the slightly nicer climate than Cumbria too.

Sigh. I dont think Surrey it known for its holiday destination qualities nor is meant to be as such ; maybe you should visit then and you can make opinion based on a visit.

Its just as silly to discount Surrey entirely as it it, Yorkshire for instance. Each county has it own merits and drawbacks.

For instance Surrey is good for the commuter belt but peak district is good for getting away from it all- perhaps vice versa neither can work as well for each 'need'. No need to make it "one better than other"; they are all equal.

I am born and brought up in Surrey and OP I am glad to say I have never met a person like you.

Awful place, dull, overpriced, people who have money but no character, yuk

Surrey is lovely, and affluent, and glossy in parts. And smug. I lived in a very nice town there for years.
I find the wider world so much interesting though.

*more interesting

Cocoflower - I'm not meaning to totally discount Surrey. I'm simply responding to the OP's assertion that I'm envious of her living in Surrey. Just trying to point out why would I be envious of Surrey.

I grew up in Surrey - no-one at all in my home town between the ages of 18 and 40 as everyone would leave to go to uni and never return.
My parents live near Esher now and my dad has great fun helping the Chelsea footballer WAGs use the fruit-labelling machine and the self-checkout!

I'm afraid some of you here just don't comprehend certain concepts pertinant to society. I suppose it's naive of me to expect those of you not born into certain stations in life to understand what some of us just 'know' without needing to be told.

Surrey is for some people and not for others, that's more than understood. Trust me, i am most thankful for this notion. There are certain people and certain groups with pervasive negative attitudes who would ruin our wonderful way of life and most beautiful of counties. By the way, when I say Surrey, I mean outside the M-25 ring road.

What better way to spend an afternoon than having tea with likeminded friends in a quaint cafe in Dorking and riding at the stables in Witley.

Pure heaven!

You're funny

Wow, what a perfectly perfect person YOU are in perfect land, OP.

Makes me wonder why you'd ever spend time mingling with the likes of me, I didn't think someone of your social standing and with such fabulous places to go would need to brag.

Class is more than about money and material, it comes from within, not what you have without.

the OP doesn't live in Surrey she lives in the 1950s.

Dorking is full of done alright for themselves terrified someone might catch them out that they used to be poor! I think it sounds perfect for you. Even my mum eventually sold up in Oxshott because it was so snobby and boring!Hello BB hope things ok x

So op, you don?t live that far from Haslemere or Godalming?yet you choose Dorking to find a ?quaint café?? Well, there really is no accounting for taste!

You have the whole of Surrey to find a tea room! Dorking is nice enough, but hardly on the ?heaven? spectrum now is it?

You obviously haven't visited Berkshire?

This thread is so funny

Heaven
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Pendeen

I am a pasty's throw from you!

(Literally, if you bought it from Lillians and took a while eating it while wandering down the road, then chucked it in my drive on the way past)

Berkshire! Surely would out posh Surrey, home to Royals etc etc...

...and much nicer tea rooms.

There is zero point to this thread other than a bit of silly trolling