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Snobbiest places in the UK

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Mollygo Sun 16-May-21 12:02:44

I noticed a thread in Mumsnet asking this question. What do GNs think?

Witzend Thu 24-Jul-25 22:37:49

It was decades ago, but I well remember my mother telling new neighbours (family with children) about some other near neighbours. ‘The Xs at number Y, their daughter goes to Such-and-such school’
Slight pause from new neighbour. ‘Oh. So they’re not fee-paying people, then.’

My mother was herself somewhat ‘socially conscious’, but even she was decidedly taken aback.

Esmay Fri 25-Jul-25 11:11:26

I've had many problems dealing with the receptionists at my doctor's surgery ,but nothing prepared me when a receptionist mocked my "posh " accent and mimicked me .
I was phoning as it was yet another occasion when I'd run out of my meds .
The next day I went into the surgery and actually burst into tears .
The receptionists were very nice and sorted it out .
Since then I've had to return to the surgery and witnessed more appalling rudeness .

Magenta8 Fri 25-Jul-25 11:21:00

When my rich cousin's snobby wife found out I was educated at state schools she nodded her head slowly and said "That explains a lot of things" she then went on to ask if I found it 'socially awkward'.

Witzend Fri 25-Jul-25 18:53:38

I used to know someone who insisted that everyone from the S of England was a snob. She and her dh were friends of ours - we were all living overseas at the time.
Since dh and I are both from the S of England, I asked her whether she thought we were snobs.
‘No!’
‘Well, then.’
But she still thought everyone else from the S was. She was from a northern city and TBH for some reason had a massive chip on her shoulder.