Snobbiest places in the UK

Spent 4 uncomfortable years in Edinburgh with the neighbours feeling far superior to the English.
Chesham Bois where for some reason they pronounce it Chesham Boyce.
Beaconsfield in Bucks where even the council houses have
Georgian porticoes.

My sister and brother-in-law's house is just very most snobbiest place in the world!

How awful...I would have said yes but all the kids eg mine to play outside and not come in unless they helped ! Always make tea/ coffee bscuits or cake whatever for everyone

My sister is the biggest snob I know. She once paid a visit and when she was inside our house looking at everything made the comment your have a rather nice little house, about our 3 bed semi. Also all my younger life I was told I was posh because of the way I spoke, I was a forces kid so grew up moving around and never developed an accent.

My late cousin. She was the double and acted like Mrs Bouquet candlelight suppers and all. But the family knew her background!

We used to have a saying for snobbish people "all fur coat & no knickers"
DH's grandma used to say that.

Salcombe! Ah yes, I can remember when it was quite ordinary, just a lovely place to visit.
Like muse said about Cornwall.

We visited the pub my Dad used to go to as a young man, it was just an ordinary Cornish pub, now a pretentious bistro pub with prices to match.
And pretentious customers rather than locals.
Perhaps we shouldn't have been surprised.

These places have been taken over by the moneyed brigade, forcing locals out.

All money, no class.

I’m very surprised to see Coventry mentioned as snobby. I know the city reasonably well and it’s got many decidedly run down areas that could never be described as snobby.
Even one of the so called wealthy areas is within sniffing distance if the sewage works ?

Exactly.

Watch you don't trip with that almighty chip on your shoulder?

I was very hurt when a 'friend' put her child (a friend of my son), into private primary school, because she didn't want her son to be mixing with the children from that school. We had been friends through ante natal sessions, social outings, our sons had played together. So presumably my son wasn't good enough for her son, and that I feel is a form of hurtful snobbery.

My friend and I visited a WI meeting when we stayed with my cousin. We were welcomed politely and asked how we knew J (my cousin). I explained the relationship and you could see us go up in the eyes of the WI members because my cousin is quite wealthy and lives in a big house.

But when asked where we came from, members dwindled away like melting ice cream because it was deemed not a very salubrious area (like all places it has its good and bad sides).

Later we heard one member say to my cousin: "I suppose they had to come here to see you, because you can't possibly go there!"

My cousin was mortified at the remark and apologised to us. But the WI ladies, over the next few weeks, continued to comment on her "unfortunate cousins" so she left and joined a different branch who, she says, are much nicer.

I dont think there is a particular place where it is snobby.I think people who think themselves superior to others qualify as being snobby, mostly people who have come up in the world, tend to be snobs. for no reason at all, forgetting where they started out. IMHO

I have a strong Brummie accent and find that once i open my mouth their attitude changes. So many TV programmes portray us Brummies as thick and that view continues. Is that how some would consider as snobby ?

HannahLoisLuke

I’m very surprised to see Coventry mentioned as snobby. I know the city reasonably well and it’s got many decidedly run down areas that could never be described as snobby.
Even one of the so called wealthy areas is within sniffing distance if the sewage works ?

Me too. I thought it was a rough old joint. Now some of those nice little Warwickshire villages,maybe.

Joesoap

I dont think there is a particular place where it is snobby.I think people who think themselves superior to others qualify as being snobby, mostly people who have come up in the world, tend to be snobs. for no reason at all, forgetting where they started out. IMHO

Totally agree !

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Tedd1

I was a mature student about to embark on a nursing degree at Oxford Brooks university. Having difficulty finding the place, I asked an older gentleman if hy could point me the way. He scratched his head and then he said to me “ oh you mean the polytechnic “. He obviously didn’t acknowledge where I was going as a proper university!!

To be fair, if he/d been a resident of the area for ages, he'd have always known it as Oxford Poly! That wouldn't necessarily mean he thought of it as any less of a university. (My husband went there when it was the Poly, my daughter (for a term) when it was Oxford Brookes)

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 was walking my small mixed breed dog in a small park where I used to live. I came upon a woman about the same age as me who was trying to get her Jack Russell dog out of a stream. It had obviously gone down the steep bank and couldn't get back up.

I approached the woman and offered to help. I suggested that perhaps the sight of my dog at the top might entice her little fellow out of the water. She looked at me in total disgust and said " We don't need help from a stupid looking thing like that !"

I had only owned my little dog for a few months at that point and had no idea such snobbery existed among dog owners.

Cambridge without a doubt, says peasblossom I was born in Cambridge love everything about it, can you enlighten me! Very intrigued to know!

Totally agree. How can a place be snobbish, ???

I'm enjoying your stories. Here are a couple of mine:

A college friend of mine's brother was going out with a gorgeous blonde Swedish girl and they made a fine looking couple. He couldn't speak a word of Swedish and confided in his sister with "I think she's lovely but how do I know whether or not she's a Swedish cockney?"


My DM had a cousin who had done rather well for herself and lived in leafy Surrey. We visited her one Christmas when all her family were home including her new GDiL. We both had babies at the time and I was breast feeding. All this young woman said to me or the only thing I can remember was
"Isn't it awful when nanny's away at Christmas - I'll have to heat up the bottles myself.."

Also have you seen the clip?:
www.facebook.com/bbcscotlandnews/videos/938768633628866

kjmpde

I have a strong Brummie accent and find that once i open my mouth their attitude changes. So many TV programmes portray us Brummies as thick and that view continues. Is that how some would consider as snobby ?

Kjmpde - I know lots of lovely (and intelligent) Brummies! I’m sure you are one of them. I also came across some who mocked my own quite strong regional accent in broad Brummie tones. I let it go, two wrongs etc

The streets are a tightrope between entitled students on bikes and entitled tourists on pavements, TrendyNannie,
?

The spaces in between are filled with lecturers and consultants.

No offence meant. I just always feel surrounded by the elite?

You must have found the one and only snob there or perhaps they didn’t understand your question!