YAY! Move down South!!! Get away from all that Chips and Gravy nonsense.

It will get better.

When I met hubby he told me he was from Notting Hill...   so I was confused when in a later conversation he then said he was from West Hampstead....   and then confused once more when he took me back to his flat in Kilburn!  

Bleedin snob!      His childhood home was in Notting Hill ....  which I now know to be a des res.

The West Hampstead bit was him not wanting to say Kilburn...  

I was shitting it when he then told me this...   and we were on our way to Kilburn...  I had visions of some kind of inner city bronx...      But he was soooo wrong..   I bloody LOVE Kilburn!    It is people-watching-tastic!

Now he had moved in with me...  I live in a village surrounding a town in Essex...   but overheard him describing it to his friends as a village on the Essex-Suffolk border! 

Like everywhere else Surrey has it's 'posh' parts and it's not so 'posh'parts. i was born in Croydon which was deemed Surrey then (boundaries change) - when I was first married we lived in Sutton, Surrey ................it isn't all 5 bed detatched and as you say - although the cost of living is a bit higher - the salaries do reflect that.

You can always find cheaper areas to live no matter where the location. Good Luck! I moved from the South 23 yeaRS AGO ..........i THINK i WAS HOMESICK FOR three or four years .........................now I know - I would never, ever go back! Maybe good for young single people but I'm really glad i didn't bring my kids up there TBH.

NO-ONE understood what I was saying when I moved down here (aged 16)...    first time I went out (the girl who lived opposite came & knocked for me and invited me out with her & her friends)....  we were at a club and this bloke asked me to dance.... 

and I gave him the normal northern response "eff off I'm waiting for me mate".... only he didn't understand what I was saying....  three times I repeated it... before finally just doing a runner!

I still don't

excellent... anywhere near the time of Pride?

oh... &

the fish & chips shops are seriously crap down here - all of them

I have been southern-socialised now ...  kinda

I remember my Mum saying few years ago that when she first met my Dad... he said he was from Cheshire when actually he was born in Salford



He's so full of 5hit...I once brought up the subject on Bacon and pigs. He then said Bacon doesnt come from pigs, its grown on trees.

Somethings are priceless Saz

I've no idea when that is 

Last time I went down for the weekend with a friend (two 50 yr old ish women).

We sat on the beach for ages, then realised that we were surrounded by young people, not a family, or anyone our age in sight.

Then we realised that everyone was pissed, and were carrying around vast quantities of alcohol. 

Finally, someone told us it was Fat Boy Slim's free gig that day

No wonder I still havent found a good one!

Pfft ... untrue - the fish and chip shop near me is pure delish

 Meaty

Its normally around the same time every year, and it has just gone (last weekend) AMAZING! Love all the gayness and clubs...PROPER ACE!! Whenever you go, I hope you have a great time!

Total control of the sofa and TV remote

Oh, I will ... and I will have lunch in Brown too - bliss

rexi xx........i'm between b'mth and poole.southbourne is about 3-4 miles away from me..i love it down here...nice beaches.london's a few hours away..got the new forest close by...its just expensive!!!

rawky..i'm a southerner born n bred an i lurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrve chips and gravy....

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEE the New Forest!

Was there a couple of weeks ago, There are a fair few baby donkeys there at the moment!

opposite for me... Northerner and I can't be doing with gravy on me chips

I've was born down South and lived there for half my life, and have lived  up North for the other half...... and I refuse to comment on either

I once drove all the way from Wigan to Leeds just to get some fish and chips from harry ramsdens chip shop (as I heard it was far better then the others) and it was so effing worth it... it was like entering a brothel.




Thats how dedicated I am.

Don't mention Poole to me ... last Wednesday we got a bus from Southbourne to Bournemouth, then got the little seafront train to the end of the line, which my mum said was about a mile away from Poole.

It's about three miles - in the teaming, pouring down, lashing rain. With all the beachhutters laughing as we walked past.

We got to Poole, and there was a sign saying Town Centre 3 1/4 miles

There was a bus with a sign saying Bournemouth - we hopped on it.  It was an open top sightseeing bus, every time we went round a corner a load of water sloshed down the stairs.

I'm going back the week after the bank holiday ... can you order me some serious sun for then please Spongey?

Wuss

rexi................yep the beach is miles and miles away from poole town centre!!..last weds was the worst day we'd had for ages!!...i shall do my best to order you some sunshine for your next visit!!

I'm in Reigate don't you know!

I have friends in mansions in Cobham and Oxshott!

I was brought up in Cheam village.

My brother went to Dulwich College and sounds like Steven Fry when he speaks lol

You'd think I'd be a right posh bird but I'm not I just love Surrey though. I could never move away from Surrey but my parents did down to Devon and now they want to move back ha ha!

My brother is a right old snob and yet he moved away to Essex but the 'posh rural part' of Essex - his words not mine

Meaty - where abouts in Surrey would you be moving to?

yeah.... the original harry ramsdens is good (the spin off ones around the country are a bit dodgy though)... 


we recently went up to Leeds for a 4 day break...   and I lived on chips with scraps from Bryans chippie in Headingley!    sooooooooo good!

I live in Surrey.....it's expensive to rent or buy anywhere to live here, but some places are worse than others. I'm from up North as well and apart from housing, it's much the same as anywhere else....in fact some things can be cheaper

I have just plastered my FB with pictures of my mum dripping wet on that day ... it's a good job she can't even turn a computer on, she'd kill me

Surrey eh Meaty?


Or as us Londoners call it - Man Utd Central


You'll love it

Yeah true but only since we moved away ...........my husband (originally from the North) used to fry the best fish and chips in Carshalton, Catford, Harrow and then Burnt Oak before returning North..........we left them wanting more!

oh and meaty...the worst thing you'll encounter is.......hordes and hordes of people wearing man utd shirts............

haha...   I have to drive through Oxshott into Cobham ferrying daughter to & from school...   I like to drool at the many gated communities...   and seriously lovely houses!   to be fair...  its an important distinction 

there's Essix... and there's Essex...  

there's a joke about it...  What do you call an Essex girl with a GCSE?   A Chelmsford girl!

Really?   Where did you go to school? I went to school in Banstead - little private one called Greenacre Parents money ran out after sending snobby brother to Dulwich lol

haha veggieeeeeeeeeeeee ......snap!!!

Il be carrying a knife at all times... all I need now is a pitbull

Rich bugga

Can't help much as I live further south, Jersey, and we travel to Poole about 4 times a year,
we find it cheap, we go laden with clothes etc, we did look at house prices for fun, and they are half the price of ours