Is the Isle of Wight chavvy?

[adifferentwoman]

Thinking of going here in June, but is it chavvy? We usually end up in Cornwall or Devon but fancied somewhere different. Looking to stay at West Bay Club. Thanks

I love the IOW too
beautiful beaches, gorgeous countryside
some great pubs and restaurants
museums (though no more Brading )
but, my opinion is possibly not too too relevant as I stay in caravans and I have been known to eat fish and chips out of the paper in public

how very dare you grrrrrrrrr......

Chavvy? No.

Backward and inbred? Absolutely.

JOKE btw.

Some of my best friends are Corkheads!

Ridiculous OP.
Better close your eyes on the way through Pompey to the ferry.

(Or go from Lymington, which is vair naice.)

i'm sad i missed the brading auction, some of the exhibits didn't go for much

Oh don't we LOVED Brading. My dd1 SOBBED when I told her.

what IS a Corkhead and where does it come from?

"yeah. it's full of disgusting poor people and you know how they mess up posh peoples' nice things." Its such a problme Harpsi - I am an averagely poor person with a disgustingly rich sister and a disgusting poor brother.

We are a very disfunctional family

Though we all like the isle of Wight.

A Corkhead is an IoW native.

I always thought it was because they floated, DH said it was because of their strange-shaped heads , but apparently it's because of the cork trade. Shaping cork was only done on the Island or summit.

Actually, it's Caulkhead. Caulking is something to do with boat building. And you have to be island born and bred with family going back atleast a couple of generations. Otherwise you're known as an Overner.

I thought it was Caulkhead?

My dad is an overner, as he's only been there 20 years, not born there. Another 30 till they can be honourary Caulkheads, though my nieces are real ones!

Kewcumber, my post was with tongue firmly in cheek. Parts of Ryde ARE terribly run down and English seaside-towny. Same with Sandown.

Generally, East of the island is where the mass of holiday-makers go, and West is very rural and pituresque.

In the winter, when there are no holiday makers, it's lovely

No.My parents had a house in Ventnor for years and it was lovely.

Sorry Celery x posted, I looked like an echo there!

My favourite iow story (not sure if it's true) is that they refer to the mainland as the North Island :-)

We love the isle of wight but then we are chavy (joke) .

We went to cornwall this year and it wasn't as nice as the isle of wight (we had to drive miles to go anywhere, unlike the isle of wight).

Love the IoW, especially West Wight and Ventnor/Bonchurch. Beautiful beaches, loads to do/see. I'm sure there's plenty of Cornwall/Devon one would classy as 'chavvy' (awful phrase!)

Well we have just got back from the IOW and it was our most successful holiday with ds ever

We liked Ryde and loved that there was so much to do and that the beach was lovely.

Oh and we stayed on one of those cheap holiday parks. DS loved it and really did not want to come home.

I am happy to stand corrected.