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.

I just love the word 'genteel'.

I plan to use it more often from now on.

I think you're upper middle class too riven, as your DH is an academic.

She's letting all sorts in with her classometer. I bet she'll be adjusting it's calibration soon.

Well living in Weybridge now but grew up elsewhere, I can say that I do really like living in Surrey. HOWEVER OP, people like you are seriously nothing to do with my opinion, you are in fact what gives Surrey a bad name!!! I truly hope that you are merely on a complete windup otherwise you really are a pompous idiot.

There are also much more stunning places in the UK, Surrey is lovely and also convenient but it's not a patch on a lot of other places!!

It all becomes clear now. OP originally said includes husbands in finance. However in later post, accountants are mere middle class. Prolonged exposure to her DH banker & associates has had a completely delusional clearly detrimental effect.

Having taught Old Etonians at Cambridge, I can tell you, Sybil, that even the most exclusive education is no guarantee of punctuational prowess :)

The accountants we know would all be more able to buy the kind of house the OP deems acceptable in the parts of Surrey she includes in the county than DH and I would. They'd also far more likely to use boarding schools than we are (in the sense that we wouldn't want to and don't have anything like that amount of money). However, we've been admitted to the upper middle class because we're academics but they're only accountants.

Actually, I'm sure DH wouldn't count as upper middle class because he teaches at a former poly. She probably doesn't consider that an adequately academic position. Now that she's admitted us (or at least me, as i think she'd count my employer as a proper university) to her delusional posh twats club 'class', we're going to embarrass her with our rented house in the north, ford focus and state-school educated children. We live in the north though, so she probably doesn't care.

Oh - and artists and musicians are not upper-middle. They are low status but high importance, or occupationally liminal, jobs. OP is a twit.

You could have condensed that to the final sentence only.

Good point Beanlet

Some of you numbskulls should really learn how to read. I never said DH is an academic nor an accountant. Second, I really wonder just how many of your are in fact English? I shouldn't have to explain the Britishalthough, it's largely Englishclass system. Only foreigners would not grasp this. A reminder, it's not at all about money and income. Remember? And when I'm saying musician, you should all have enough sense to realise I'm not speaking about some rag-tag Billy Bragg like guitar strummer busking in the London underground. I'm speaking of a classically trained musician employed in a known orchestra or maybe even a BBC staff studio musician, etc. And please don't point out my typos as a measure of your supposed intellectual superiority. I don't put much effort or care into these messages, as they are meant to be fast and off the cuff. One more thing, I repeat, I refuse to apologise for what I stand for and who I am. Some of you working-class types may have your predictable socialistic prejudices against people of affluence and societal priviledge, so be it. Some of the lower middle-class, shopkeeper's daughters' amongst you--the Margaret Thatcher crowd may be envious of the wealthier and better bred, well I say get over it. I am what I am, and I refuse to apologise for it or be something or someone I'm not. Good day.

yup, DH is def upper middle class then

thanks for the clarification

We have some friends coming up to see us form Surrey at the weekend.

I think they would rather quibble with 'upper middle class' as a description of themselves.

This has kept me well amused today. I thank you, PST777.

ooh I'm upper middle class too. How exciting.

My dh is too

You are still wrong, even about classical musicians. Bourdieu was wrong. Orchestral player is NOT an upper middle class job; it's labour that produces cultural capital that accrues to the listener, not the musician. There's even an academic literature on the occupational status of musicians, but I won't trouble your puny brain with it.

Having just read the OP's last post again, I actually feel a little disturbed by it now. Racist, xenophobic, elitist, snobby. She sounds rather unhappy. I wonder if she has any real friends, or just acquaintances she considers to be her social equals (or higher up the social ladder, perhaps). What a bitter person - always assuming it is for real, which I doubt. Surely no-one really has those views in this day and age.

yes, OP, we all know you didn't say that your DH was an academic or an accountant, but you have (repeatedly) said that academia is one of the four main upper middle class pursuits. And you did say that mere accountants were only middle class.

Because of that you are going to have to stop dismissing us as 'lower middle class shopkeepers' daughters' and start treating many of us a social equals within the class system as you have defined it.

So, ner.

Loving the bitchy sidewswipes that indicate you think everyone who disagrees with you is lower status and just jealous. It's not something I normally mention, because I'm not hung up on class like you obviously are, but I'm upper-middle class too - greatuncle was Greater Public School - Oxbridge - Sandhurst and my grandmother even did a postgraduate degree at UCL in the 30s FFS. My BIL is the younger son of a titled aristocrat.

I still think you're an appalling and completely out of touch snob. If you're even real, that is.

Read 'mere' in scare quotes in that post.

And my father is titled. So there. Although obviously I will remain beneath you because my brother will inherit the title, not me.

In fact, my brother will be titled and poor - by your standards, anyway.

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.

There aren't any commercial riding stables in Witley any more (there used to be one in Wormley but it closed down). There are a few DIY liveries. If you really do keep your horse at one of these I probably know you. Are you a massive pisstaker in RL too?

Good day to you, 'mam

That wasn't such a genteel post from op