Snobbiest places in the UK

foxie48

Snobbery isn't about places, it's about people and their attitude to others!

Absolutely agree. Some people are snobbish but how can places be snobbish.

Years ago when I moved into a new block of flats a neighbour told me that we dont XXX here. I told her "I care so much for your opinion that if you died tomorrow I wouldnt cross the road to spit on your coffin!"

Snobby is people whom are 'up their own backside' my late gran used to say?

Used to live in Berkshire, as a kid, for awhile in the 70's- they were definitely snobby! My aunt went to live there in the late 50's onwards, after she married- SHE turned snobby too!

I would agree that a snob likes to feel superior. Yesterday in a group I am in, a women said to everyone (after another women didn't know how to turn off her phone to get rid of a website log in page and I told her to press the bottom on the top right of her iPhone) said to everyone -it shows how reliant we are on our phones that we never turn them off. Nobody said anything at all and we moved on - they are mostly men in the group - but I think I would have kicked her if she said that in person!

So id say, a LOT of the south is snobby!?

Definitely the same here!

If snobbish = unfriendly, it has to be Winchcombe. Not even fellow dog-walkers say hello!

Blossoming: exactly!

I meant my mum’s house as per kittylester

I'd say any area that has been"gentrified" to such an extent that the greengrocers, butchers and normal shops have shut. They fill up with lawyers, bankers and trophy wives with yellow hair. The rest of the people who live their are beneath these peoples' contempt - they block the pavements, talk too loud in cafes and pubs and get upset if you object to their excessive extension plans.

Yes, its a lot of the folk down south whom are snobby!?Apologies to the few whom are not snobby!

In one ear and out the other with me!

Sorry, mistype "live there"

A famous touring comedian asked local audience members where they lived and one replied “Stamford”. The audience reaction “Ooooh” led him to reply “Is it posh there then”? We all shouted back that it was.
Snobby is the place that thinks it’s posh, when it really isn’t!

(They'll be the folk who(m) won the lottery and moved from up north)!?

Oxford.

People sometimes define other people being snobby just from the way they speak or what they own. My friend hasn't lived in her home town for more than 40 years so no longer has a regional accent from that area and all her family call her 'posh' and 'a snob' which is so untrue, she is one of the nicest people I know.

Camberley, Surrey. Nice enough place, but there is a 'wrong' side and a 'right' side of the A30.

I find it's the people that are snobs the majority of the time, not the area. I spoke to a couple walking their dogs, they had just moved up the road from me, and they said it was nice that I stopped to talk to them as most walk past with their noses in the air. I didn't think where I live would be classed at snobby, so I think they have met the ones that think they are above others when out for their walks, to me it's just rude.

Local folk will always tell you which places are posh *Quizzer" and touring comedians need to do a bit of research, like the Panto Dame in Yeovil who said he knew someone who was so poor they were living in Sherborne, and trying to save up to move to Chard.

Totally agree Jean, years ago I moved into a new estate where the majority of the residents had previously bought their council properties then traded upinto a new build. One neighbour left me a note telling me my horse trailer and 4x4 (parked on my drive) were "lowering the tone". Apparently, according to them, "a nice caravan" would be fine.
I've never had that problem anywhere else, before or since.

I had a Julia Roberts moment in a JL store a few years ago. I had gone in to buy several. Electrical items but noticed a jumper I’d had my eye on whilst browsing. It had been reduced and decided to buy. At the checkout the assistant said it was wrongly priced and refused to sell it. The manger said she’d take it off sale I left and spent a rather considerable sum in the electrical store next door. JL loss and I’ve never shopped there since.

Even churches can be snobby. I heard a joke about a man who was trying to find a church where he felt he could fit in but not having much luck. He prayed about it and in particular about a church he thought wanted to attend. God answered and said, "I know that place. I've been trying to get in there for years!"

The Forces are snobby. My dad invited his boss, the camp Commanding Officer and his wife to one of our parties. She spent the whole time being generally condescending until our neighbour decided to pat her on the bum! She turned to him and in a very loud and snooty voice demanded of my father "who is this man", whereupon, my dad replied "oh, I'm so sorry, I thought you would know Squadron Leader **" Talk about quick changes - she was suddenly all smiles and said "Oh - Squadron Leader * - how do you do?" (Well he was very good looking!) So that was all right them!!