What's posh about where you live?

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Superb_Copy1644@reddit

Oh, the accent. If you know, you know.

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

The RP accent isn't spreading quickly enough.

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Belsnickel7777@reddit

We have a Booths store nearby, anyone who does a full shop there will be a bit posh, but have to admit the food is quality

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

I walk around M&S Food just to feel a bit posh.

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SCS closed down and rebranded as a posher one within 8 weeks of opening, m&s food hall expansion caused day trips for people including myself, people tell their kids off for using local pronunciations as opposed to RP, everyone on the estate has some sort of coffee gadget

This is a new build suburb in northwest england where yes theres houses for £380k+ but barely 2 miles away you can get half decent houses for £120k+

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

Please message me where! I'm house hunting!

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Spottyjamie@reddit

One for sale on the estate https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/87958623

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ExcellentAd6853@reddit

Waitrose and a theatre

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YragNitram1956@reddit

Eltham palace.

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Kewoowaa@reddit

Honestly loveliest place I've visited in a long while!

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YragNitram1956@reddit

The interior is stunning.

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MelodicAd2213@reddit

Nice houses with a sea view go for +£1M

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Kewoowaa@reddit

Free grammar schools, if I look in one direction we've got musical fame (Elgar) and literary fame (Shakey) the other and not far away in another direction it's said the gas lamps inspired Narnia.

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

The king is my next door neighbour

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woollover@reddit

My sympathies

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cbawiththismalarky@reddit

too kind

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woollover@reddit

Lol

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Real-Box-7144@reddit

My neighbour has a Lamborghini? Is that posh? 😂

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Superb_Copy1644@reddit

Only 1 strip of dulux colour cards needed to categorise the locals……

I say it jokingly, but my word, the number of people not from down here, who’s first sentence is “oh it’s very white down here” I fucking hate that sentence, but hear it weekly.

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DesignFar6251@reddit

It's a pretty common joke in my village that the only time they've ever seen a black person is when they've been down 't pit.

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Zealousideal-Low3388@reddit

I used to laugh living Cornwall when racist tourists would say “it’s so nice down here, yk without all those people 👀👀👀👀” and get bluntly told by the old Cornish barman that emmits were emmits to him. White, black green whatever; all from the wrong side of the Tamar

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Superb_Copy1644@reddit

I mean it’d be rich of me to discriminate and have pre-determined views about the Cornish, yet here we are…

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AromaticVacation3077@reddit

Loads. I can see two artisan bakeries from my bedroom window - well, not right at the moment because it's Spring and the tree blossom is in the way. We have to pay to park outside our own front door and almost half the spaces are taken up with bike hangers. The park at the end of the road has a 'community orchard' that features a quince tree. It's well posh round here, but it's balanced out by the women's hostel round the corner - the backdrop to regular screaming pavement brawls - and the mangey foxes that shit on everything.

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BaBaFiCo@reddit

It's a "Royal Town". Which locals love to go on about...

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811545b2-4ff7-4041@reddit

An over abundance of poodle-mixed dogs being walked in the park.

We have a cathedral too.

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ApprehensiveRun1382@reddit

IMO, a posh area is measured by how much dogshit is left on the streets.

The more you see, the more rich, self entitled people there are in the area. And they are obviously going to be living in the nice places.

Dog shit, it’s really a social status sign for the area. Much in the same way as seeing female joggers on your streets.

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

> Dog shit, it's really a social status sign for the area.

Have you ever been to Blackpool?

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Odd-Paramedic-3826@reddit

It's all in the cars. and they actually tell a story about the people who live here.

There are a lot of very expensive but functional cars. things like rolls royces, bentlys, and jaguars. there are teslas too, which i think are growing in popularity with the same crowd. Also a very high concentration of mini coopers. Just a lot of "classy" cars.

There's also a lot of cheap bangers. and low end-mid range commuter cars that've been being driven for 10+ years.

These two types of car are roughly equally seen around here but i've never once in my life seen a vanity sports car (ferraris, lambos, etc).

It's a residential village that was built up in the 1940s to house the families of factory workers, but then the factories shut down. The people living here now? Rich commuters and working class descendants of the factory workers.

Up the road from me theres a house with two RRs parked outside it (I assume it's some bank executive or old money type) directly next to a skip hire guy.

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pixeltash@reddit

Ahh so not as posh as a 25 year old landy, driver in wellies and a couple of labradors in the back posh

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

More like 45yo landy!

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pixeltash@reddit

No! 25 years ago was the 80s and I won't hear any different!

Yeah ok more like 45 year old landy 😭

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CorrectTemperature65@reddit (OP)

The drivers never signal (even non-BMW drivers!)

There's no Primark.

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heartpassenger@reddit

There’s very little posh about where I live, but the people off the estate round the corner would say otherwise.

It’s one of those up and coming, quirky, loads of independent shops, green voting, funky terraced houses, 2 under 2, walking and biking, anti-car type neighbourhoods. Having lived in actually posh places, it’s not posh.

But as I say - the people off the estate would say otherwise. And the fact we call them “the people off the estate” is a bit posh. Even if it’s just aspirationally.

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MattGSJ@reddit

Take your pick but probably that we have an AGA shop opposite a Space NK shop.
Plus a load of lady’s clothes shops where everything costs more than the most expensive item of clothing I own.

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Electronic-Writer108@reddit

My postcode : SE1

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Aware-Rub2791@reddit

If someone adds graffiti to walls or garage doors, it’s gets painted over by a group of people who I have never met.

It’s just done within a few days of it arriving.

My neighbour had her whole garage doors painted a different colour (without her consent) after it was tagged

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Lessarocks@reddit

Our local homeless man (just the one) got given a lovely yellow sofa, a large suitcase, a bookcase, a table and some other bits and pieces by the neighbours. ThisnIS all for his ‘home’ under the railway bridge.

But since we found out from the police that he is a scammer who has a council flat people have stopped donating.

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gponter79@reddit

Asda doesn’t chain up the trolleys.

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pixeltash@reddit

This is peak posh

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Speedbird1A@reddit

No ugly modern street lights, only proper old classical design lantern style street lamps.

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pixeltash@reddit

Can't be my Georgian home town, where the lamp posts were deliberately replaced with ugly modern iones after the council saying they wouldn't be and the curb stones were nicked!

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Dazpiece@reddit

Black Country living museum?

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Dimac99@reddit

Bournville?

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Flapparachi@reddit

The regular event in my local village hall is a Persian rug sale.

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FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit

Well. The University. The colleges.... except Churchill. Nah, even Churchill, frankly - it's ugly but it's posh.

There are some pretty posh shops, too.

Still not as posh as Bath, where I used to live.

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HarketSavoy@reddit

Woah, Bath mentioned. Pretty, posh shops but useful shops? Nooo.

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FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit

Mostly, yes. Although Schwarz Bros is still hanging on.

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evenstevens280@reddit

Waitrose

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No_Secret2322@reddit

Screw you fancy pants!

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sk6895@reddit

We have a Gails

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JavaRuby2000@reddit

Everything. The whole town is built on the intersection of three privately owned estates. Whenever the council wants to do something they need to get permission from the landowners first. One of the landowners is my wife's boss and a Duke.

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anonaccount119@reddit

Our local crackheads started wanking off under his joggers instead of over if that counts

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yossanator@reddit

The imagery that conjours up is both hilarious and troubling.

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scorzon@reddit

It's when the crackheads start wanking under their joggers WITH their pinkies held up that you've reached peak posh.

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anonaccount119@reddit

I unfortunately see him daily as he sleeps 6ft from my doorstep. Boro for ya

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Appropriate_Can8906@reddit

Our local drunks sometimes hold their pinkies up when they’re downing cans in the park. That’s real class right there.

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Wrong_Duty7043@reddit

It still has free grammar schools.

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Individual-Rope-3769@reddit

Everything tbh. The number of middle aged women in Lululemon leggings & the average dog being a doodle cross.

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ResplendentBear@reddit

We've got stables in 3 directions within a few miles of us. Literally nothing in Britain is posher than horses, although I think these are a way off being thoroughbreds.

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LittleSadRufus@reddit

The Travellers' horses tethered by a very short rope to the grass verge beside our busy roundabout may disagree. They do not look posh at all

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jordsta95@reddit

We live a quick walk from, in my opinion, a very grand and posh looking hotel.

The fact that everything around the hotel happens to be Blackpool has absolutely no bearing on the levels of "posh" the area exudes, not one bit.

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DesignFar6251@reddit

The locals tattoos are actually spelt correctly

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space_coyote_86@reddit

It's in the Cotswolds.

It's not really, but there's an Airbnb down the road that says it is. It's just near the cotswolds.

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PetitePlayToyy@reddit

historic buildings everywhere here

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OxfordBlue2@reddit

Nothing. It’s mid Essex.

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Bose82@reddit

Nothing. Even the pigeons fly upside down because there's nowt worth shitting on

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Many-Tip7243@reddit

That sentence is a stellar piece of English. Thank you for that 😂😂😂

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ErinClaymores@reddit

Several homes with English Heritage blue plaques

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Shot-Specialist-9841@reddit

Middlesbrough? Probably the fact that the GH is silent

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Many-Tip7243@reddit

😂😂😂😂😂

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oscarx-ray@reddit

Where I live it's having two shoes that match.

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PastLanguage4066@reddit

Shoes? Luxury.

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oscarx-ray@reddit

I live in a very posh hovel 😎

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Few_House_5201@reddit

Everything. I Live in a leafy suburb.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

Surely suburbs are intrinsically unposh? The posh do town and country, but not what's in between.

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GeggingIn@reddit

Butler is awfully droll.

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yolo_snail@reddit

We have a Castle.

It was 'bought' by a southerner worth hundreds of millions, and he has then used that money and influence to completely ruin the town by building a tower that has a good view over the spoons.

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