lille,barcelona,auchtermuchty

YORK

Amersham
Beaconsfield
Gerrards Cross

All top notch!

Reeth is v.nice in middle of the yorkshire dales.  absolutely lovely, if it counts as a town, pretty remote mind.

Reading. Give me your fecking money! Who wouldn't want that.

My brothers and I were brought up in a rough council estate in london.  Luckily we had grammar schools then and my brother and I passed our 11 plus.  He studied for years to become a chartered surveyor, studying in our living room whilst all his mates were out enjoying themselves.  He now resides in one of the most expensive roads in the country, but he has worked damn hard to get there and has not 'tread on any toes' to do so.  He is also one of the nicest people you could meet.
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Chartered surveyors should never become rich in the first place,same as solicitors and other such bloodsuckers in society - just because they study for a few hours (for their own ends) many people study for long hours but don't become wealthy because of it  - besides they're exactly not performing life saving operations - hth

"I might add that my brother went to night school and studied at home after doing a full week's work, and this went on for years, while still remaining on our council estate.  He could only afford to move when he got married and qualified as well".

It's called 'bettering yourself'. Well done to both of you.

He now resides in one of the most expensive roads in the country,
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Good luck to HM the Queen as well ,she seems to be 'bettering herself' every year 

Thanks, Emden 

Hart is not a particularly 'wealthy area' compared to the likes of Wokingham, Kennsington etc.

The community spirit where I live is great. My neighbours are a plasterer/plumber/hairdresser and a retired couple. It's more about things such as pubs being traditional and tasteful, the children have loads of things to do and a good education to back it up without having to pay for it, council services run smoothly etc. The golf course where I am a member is the friendliest set of members I have ever seen - whereas in Ascot and Guildford they were nowhere near as friendly or down to earth!

You seem to have missed the point in that it's the best place to live bacuse of the community and opportunity etc and not in spite of it or by any stretch beacuse people have stepped on others!! It's a hard working, family orientated area surrounded by natural beauty and 'normal' people. For every Merc there is a Golf and a Fiesta, i.e a broad cross section. And low crime areas tend to signify a sense of community.

I lived in Epsom for a while and other parts of Surrey which would arguably be wealthier and I never liked them.

One can only descirbe the asthetics of a place they have only ever visited and not the community spirit as that is gleaned from living there.

FWIW I was brought up in an overspill of Liverpool called Skelmersdale. A dreadful place. But Old Skelmersdale where we latter moved is quite nice and I still have family there. And I love going home frequently, watching my beloved Liverpool and enjoying the City of Liverpool as well which is a fantastic place as well as friendly. I also liked Huddersfield as a student etc so by no means am I any way snobby.

RLP

Ulverston is a nice little town kinda one of the few normal functioning day to day towns in the lakes that aren't big tourist places(it does of course have it's share though)as for Barrow,it literally has been left behind by time huge old ship yards good as dormant,a town built on industry now good as gone.