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.

Berkshire is fine; however, its only respectable parts are in the small confines around Windsor, Ascot and Sunningdale. Plus, I'd say some of its other more negative aspects is that it's overloaded with Americans. If not Americans, then country yokels once you go west of Ascot. And please, need I mention that ghastly place, Slough?

No, I wouldn't say Berkshire could measure up to Surrey in any way. As far as the Royal connections are concerned, my response is, so what? Anybody who is familliar with court will tell you that the Windsor-Mountbatten clan are not exactly seen as the most prestigious or noble of the old families amongst that set. Indeed, some would even say they're looked down on as mere upstarts and foreigners. Those 'dreadful Windsor's' as my darling aristocratic neighbour describes that family.

I'd suggest the only Home County that comes close to Surrey would possibly be the eastern fringes of Hampshire. Anywhere from Winchester to Petersfield, specifically; however, this is such a small area of what is a very large county, so it's moot, really.

Tea was only taken in Dorking because I had agreed to meet someone from that locality. I normally don't venture for tea too far beyond Godalming, Guildford, Haslemere, etc.

Op you are amazing. I may just have to follow all your threads in future.

isnt Surrey full of people who cant afford to live in London

Oh god, my dh is trying to persuade me to move to Surrey.

Help me :(

Oooh naughty Riven.

Some really nasty things said on this thread. And yet I remember a recent thread where the OP didn't want to move to Manchester because of assumptions she'd made about it and everyone was up in arms that she could dismiss a place she'd never been too. Seems fine to slag off the south east but woe betide you cast aspersions on the north.

Yes I live in Surrey, I was born here, I didn't choose it. We have a normal house in a very pleasant town and I don't know any wankers apart from some people on this thread. I love it here, it's my home.

The only reason people are being 'nasty' is because the op is so ridiculous and rude. I've never been to surrey, don't know what it's like, but I know the op is being rude and ridiculous so yes she is being ridiculed.

Snickering fox its fine, most of us in Surrey are quite normal. I can only think of one person I have met even vaguely like the OP. (And what can be wrong with Dorking? Except too many antique shops?)

Doesn't read like just the OP being ridiculed to me. If it was that's fair enough, everywhere has good and bad.

I'm with mummytime on this, mostly we are very nice. I don't know any posh people but then i live inside the m25 not outside it. Apparently that isn't the bit of surrey the op is referring to!

I am assuming OP is taking the right royal piss. Either that or she's upper-working lower-middle anxiously trying to pass as upper, because noone else would openly express such sentiments (would they, now, Hyacinth?)

As for academics being upper middle - increasingly so because you need a private income to supplement your pitiful salary!

I agree with the OP that Morden is lovely. Hop on the Northern Line, and you're there. Paradise.

Oh yes, Morden. Lovely. Also, only just outside Surrey but equally lovely, is Mitcham. Eden.

The OP is of course taking the royal piss - no-one as posh as she is purporting to be would use a greengrocer's apostrophe.

Can't believe, according to the OP, that by living in Weybridge (inside M25) I'm in the shit party of Surrey. I'm devastated.

riveninside - I would say that Surrey is full of people who have moved out of London out of choice as they do not want to bring their children up in a city.

And some of us would hate to live in London, it really really wouldn't be for us. We just love the countryside and feeling of space, lack of traffic, no hustle and bustle.

Each to their own really.

Croydon is in Surrey, just like Slough is in Berkshire.

I don't live too far from Guildford, on the Waterloo to Portsmouth line, in more of a new town-y sort of place. It's very mixed - old money, new money, immigrant communities, lots of big LA estates and some very stockbrokery enclaves. I don't think any of the groups really mix though.

I have recently moved from an estate with bugger all on it except for a very good school, and people that wouldn't give you the time of day. I now live in a proper little village and it's really cool.

Don't worry thestringcheese OP CAN'T know what she is talking about, after all, last time I looked Weybridge had it's very own Boden store! I hope it is still there!

Did you know Surrey is the most wooded county in England...

Just sayin'

Well if Croydon's in Surrey I stand corrected - I have been to Surrey. Nice.

Well I live in Dorking and have met very few people like the OP. On the contrary, most people are quite pleaseant.
I'm originally from Yorkshire but grew up in Kent and I think you find stuck-up people everywhere.

It depends on the person-one of my good friends is a professor who has a lovely, huge, country mansion and owns an international company. DH and I are working class- I'm even on carer's allowance and claim some housing benefit since I had to give up work when our son became disabled. My friend doesn't treat me any differently because she's not stuck up her own arse.

PST777 - aren't you the one who was shagging the gardener a couple of months ago?

I'm a surrey gal (well, borders of but spent most of my time there) and I'm not a twat I promise. Some bits of Surrey are beautiful and I'm planning on moving back there soon but will take care not to irritate the upper middle classes, I PROMISE.

Surely not. Everyone from Surrey is so dull remember?