Snobbiest places in the UK

felice Re the social standing of cooks. When my mother was young in the 1930s, she was the cook in a nursing home, skilled at providing good food to all the patients and staff there. The nurses were uneducated young women up from the country, whose ideas of nursing, hygeine and morals were far from perfect. One day she met a girl-friend of a friend. When she mentioned the nursing home the acquaintance was very interested and said she nursed there too and had never seen her there. "No", said Mum, "I am not a nurse, I am the cook". "Oh, just a domestic!" she replied scornfully and lost all interest in more friendly chat. A snob often has fewer abilities and lower standards than the one they despise

Chelsea was fairly snobby 10 years ago!

Bath is somewhere that can be snobby but like Newmarket & Edinburgh, definitely has an enduring seedier side.

Definitely Tunbridge Wells - you have to live in the right part or you aren't acceptable.

MawBe

What do you define as “snobbiest” ?
Most expensive?
Most exclusive?
Most desirable?
I have to admit I find words like snobby usually say more about the person using it than what is being described.
So not you OP, blame MN!

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again!

Alderney Edge,Wilmslow areas are quite snobby….the Cheshire set.

Many years ago I was in Fenwick London, just looking at the dresses. I was a student and wearing, I thought a lovely navy dress.
A woman came up to me and asked to be directed to the hat department. I said I had no idea where that was as I didn’t work here.
‘ Then you shouldn’t stand about looking as if you do’, she said. ‘They take anyone in these shops nowadays. ‘

I try to avoid snobby clicks.

When I was newly married to my husband my husband was on the rise in his company. One of his colleagues wife said to me at some evening do ‘we both think x could go far but could you go with him’!! With hindsight I should have said ‘ I don’t plan to, I’ve got my eye on someone who’s got even better prospects’. That would have made them as speechless as their remark made me!! Some people do love themselves dont they.

Kate1949

I've posted this before. I told a 'friend' whose husband had died that if she needed someone to talk to at any time that we could meet for a coffee or something. She took me up on the offer a few times and on one occasion said to me 'I am meeting up with people now who I would never have dreamed of meeting up with when my husband was alive -no offence'. Offence taken actually.

On Mumsnet they would call her a cheeky cf!

Blossoming.. Well said. ??

My DDs ex future MILs house!!
That woman THINKS she's posh and a snob but is just as common as the rest of us, and she is VERY 2faced, too! ??
The rest of her family are not so bad.
She and her husband are quite like Mrs. Bucket ('Bouquet') and her poor husband!!

Yorki I don't think a shop is obliged to sell you goods that have been mistakenly marked at a lower price. But some shops, for the sake of goodwill, do so.

Wellbeck.. That would really wind me up.

Regarding the John Lewis store purchase "or not" ... I thought they had a legal obligation to sell goods at the price on display, whether its wrongly priced or not.

That is a bit sad Ydoc about changing things into a Harrods bag as the only people who are impressed by that are other snobs.

Jean Robinson, I total agree with you.. As a hairdresser, I've met people who were born into money, they were the loveliest people, kind, compassionate and generous. Those who married into money or were given it in one way or another, were quite spiteful, mean, and cruel in the words they used about things and people, they thought they had every right to talk down their noses to those who didn't have much and brag constantly about their own self righteousness, aggressive bullies I saw them to be.. They had a continuous need to tell you what they had against what you don't have.

Mollyco
Yes, that would be my definition of snobby, who actually thinks he or she is superior.

Witzend, is it Sheila Bloom aka bitchface off FRiday night dinner?

When we first moved to this house, 40 years ago, I went one day to the second hand bookshop at top of the road. The owner knew I was new in the area and asked where we had moved from (another suburb not far away). She said immediately "You get a better type of person over here!"

There are snobby people in all areas, usually the ones who have suddenly found themselves going up in the world! The people who have always been there are not usually snobby in the least!

We moved to Cornwall when DD was 4 months old but, having two London parents, she didn't pick up much of a Cornish accent. When she went to a university in Surrey everyone told her she had such a Cornish accent. When she came home to Cornwall everyone told her she'd picked up a real London accent. To us she sounded exactly the same.

I think its someone who thinks they are better than you because of where they shop, go out to eat etc. I have a older sister who from a child thought she was better than rest of family. She definitely believes above us, correct pronunciation etc, spelling even now she 69 will still put you right. My younger sister has decided she wants to follow and has said she will not step foot in certain shops (tkmaxx) being one my favourite. Chooses the most expensive place to eat out but the odd thing is they do not have loads of money where is it coming from?
I have seen a woman in a car park take her shopping from one shop and change it to a harrods bag. I find it very sad they feel the need

Terribull, that did make me laugh. I swear a neighbour of ours thought my (very) old car - only recently changed for a much newer one - was lowering the tone. However she’s the sort of person who’d honestly die rather than be seen in anything other than a Merc, not to mention the type who judges people’s worth solely by their cars and other possessions, so I have never given a stuff about her opinion.

MaggieMay69

The village I live in is called Wendover. It is a half n half place. We have the older folk who live here (65 & upwards like me) that are so friendly and lovely and love their village (its been declared a town but to the people that live here its Wendover Village!) but the newer younger families that have moved in and around, so many of them are so up themselves its unreal!!
I honestly overheard a father at the local school well over two years ago and its melted onto my brain!
" Yes, well, I may go to the Chocolaterie on the high street, David Jason goes there you know....Oh I sit and chat with him all the time! We're quite close to Chequers too so theres that yeah, oooh, best dash, must make Mummy her favourite Flan, I'm King of the Flan you know, all my friends say they simply won't come round unless I make my flan!'

I can honestly say I giggled to myself all the way home. King of the bloody flan! lol

I live near wendover and i can vouch its far from snobby ? funniest thing ive heard ?

More power to your elbow, * H1954*!