NOT EVERYWHERE IN THE UK IS STRUGGLING! PoshTowns - Somerset, UK
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- čas přidán 27. 02. 2023
- Welcome to a new series on the channel. We usually cover the TurdTowns of the UK but it's time for some positivity. Although the UK is struggling at the moment there are seemingly a few places which aren't struggling. Here are the 10 Poshest towns in Somerset UK. Let me know what you think of this new series. Dom't worry we are still filming an episode of TurdTowns this month. The plan is to go to Gwent in Wales. Eventually we will head up north I promise!
- Komedie
I’m aware that I put MEP rather than MP for your government. Apologies I must have Brexit on the mind 😂
Just seen this fair enough 😂😂😂😂
You also forgot 'Disgraced' when naming 'Disgraced MP, Liam Fox'
@@steveowen4136 what did he do?
I think getting your head into gear b4 running your gob tends to work
@@Turdtowns Breached ministerial code by bringing his friend along to security meetings whilst defence secretary, essentially compromising British security.
As a kid posh meant 2 things ..
1. You owned your own house.
2. Your parents were still together
😂
True
Ie.middle class
I grew up in southern California and ... same.
3. Fitted carpets.
@@sforoushani1 Posh was never a phrase used to describe Socal
I lived about an hour away from Frome and a taxi driver told me Frome turned itself around, from a dying high street to a thriving one by cutting down the cost of renting a shop. I know there is more to it, but I can't quite remember everything
Yes. I belong to a common law group and we’re challenging councils on the legality of council tax. Point being council chatge extortionate rates which goes into their owns pockets
I think the definition of posh is shopping in Waitrose as opposed to drinking cider outside Waitrose.
what about if you bought the cider *in* Waitrose?
@@juchetony1910 it cancels out
@@chicken1117 like drinking Chablis outside Aldi then.
@@juchetony1910 nah man u get buy 1 get one free tesco 2ltr cider and walk to the nice waitrose benches u get me fam
Having a Waitrose at all
A 'posh' town is where a man with pink trousers and two black labradors driving an ironically uneconomical restored V8 MK1 Range-Rover, is happy to pay £8 for a single beef tomato from a farmers market only to leave it to rot in the fridge of this second home where he regularly bores guests with tales of property prices, Skiing, The Maldives and house-hunting for their third home in Brittany!
I know, because I have one of these each side of me here in Brittany! They lecture on saving the environment, and at the weekend they seem to love killing small animals and drink driving.
"But it doesn't matter, because we go back on Saturday" 🤔
😄
Well worded made me laugh the range rover bit 😂
I was born in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, and I’ve remained in this location all of my life. There are many beautiful towns in the area, including Ilkley, Ripon, Northallerton, Pateley Bridge, and many more, and the countryside is breathtaking.
The South of the country is over run with people, and it’s so congested.
yorkshirists marry their cousins and have 6 toes on their left foot. facts.
Ripon is lovely, I agree. Being a Southerner,I don't know the others in your list but you are right, the south is WAY too crowded. I did however also visit Studley Roger (4 miles from Ripon) which was overrun by non locals (who drove in and parked) all on a dog walk. It was so very crowded that the place was completely wrecked. The local inhabitants of Studley Roger get fed up with quite so many tourists, just like the locals of Castle Coombe, Wiltshire. Tourism on this sort of scale completely defeats the object. Trees are effectively hugged to death. Gawping, gormless tourists lower the tone then which means that, "posh" can also be felled.
I went to uni in Ripon, lovely town, very expensive for a student at the time, I think the uni is closed now. Squaddies overrun the one nightclub and were rumoured to be very rapey. I'm from Ireland so thought the countryside was bland as fuck.
The North is interesting because of its industrial past it has scars but the posh parts are very posh. I visited the South side of Manchester, Cheshire borders and I have never seen wealth like that anywhere. I also visited your area North Yorkshire around Settle and it was wall to wall Range Rovers. What struck me was local people hold the wealth. In the West Country the locals are poor and Londoners and people from other areas control the wealth.
Posh is being warm all through Winter.
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I thought the working class were notoriously obese. Thats all year round insulation.
But when you pay to have the Internet while claiming you can't afford to keep warm is an absolute joke.
Get a log burner, being green is expensive and like cutting your dick off
@@reaperj550 Everything is internet based now, even kids have to submit some of their work that way. I don’t think you have really considered this response fully. It’s flawed.
Portishead also gets extra cool points for having one if not THE best Trip Hop groups named after it.
I danced with joy when you mentioned Dulverton. This is truly a hidden gem in England. There are green fields all around and I usually have a shower with the window open. And I can see the hills around me. Then I break into song and sing: The Hills are alive, with the sound of music! Absolutely love Dulverton. And I finish the day standing at my kitchen door singing Pslam 23. Enough said! Thanks for your video, brilliantly done!
You can see Dulverton from Albany, New York?
Funny cos I do live about 10 miles from Dulverton and it's the worst kind of posh, it's full of stuck up tory animal abusers
PLEASE DO MORE OF THESE POSITIVE VIDEOS FOR EVERY ENGLISH COUNTY! ❤
This is not positive, this is the reason why most of the UK is shit. fuck these towns.
You missed Dunster; that's about as posh as anywhere in Somerset. It has a castle, a church, a posh hotel and loads of other posh stuff.
Pmsl...
Perfect for the illegal immigrants then, get ready to be culturally enriched 👍🏻
@@noelwallace5257Don't know why you're bringing that nonsense up
Dunster is a privately owned village,the"commoners"who live there are tenants.
@@Dehydratedpencilyeah you got loads of them in your house don't you?
Having travelled through a few towns in England, the one thing that surprised me is how busy the roads are.....tiny windy roads with constant traffic... that to me defeats the object of living there. you have million pound plus houses with constant heavy traffic in earshot....I live in a large city and I've lived on three main roads... never again...at my age I like peace,I like a window open when I'm in bed...I currently live in a cul de sac just half a mile from city centre and I can hear a pin drop.its a rare and wonderful thing 🙂Im sure some of these places were beautiful fifty years ago but not now.
Yep. Too dangerous to cycle so nobody cycles, one of the worst railway networks in the first world, and a dislike of changing or improving anything.
Nope germany has the worst railway network, trust me
I agree with the nightmare traffic. Wherever you now go, it's the same. Country streets were never designed to be for this.
@@XxXBattleStarXxXOverwhelmingly not true
@@richardhingston6073 Please make plans to leave. Us patriots don't want you being miserable here, nor making us miserable with your constant criticisms. Try France. You'll love their trains.
Wells should be in the top ten. Somewhere I’d be quite happy to live. Hope, one day, to visit Dulverton.
It's easy to tell posh places, they still have pre-Worboys road signs, as at 18:45. Most places got rid of those black and white enamel signs in the 1960s, as they originated back when cars did 30 mph, not 70 mph+. Posh places all over the country have pre-Worboys signs clinging to their charming local stone corners and junctions.
Posh town - 6 coffee shops in the high street, no burnt rubber on the streets from hooning, no rubbish on the streets, streets full of tradespeople improving house and garden.
8. Langport
7. Frome
6. Portishead
5. Porlock
4. Bath
3. Chew Magna
2. Wedmore
1. Dulverton
You missed Wells which I would have rated mid table. I loved all the grockles coming and cooing over St Cuthberts thinking it was the Cathedral when I worked at Tony Caples. Two decent schools and only one really rough bit, a lot of well off commuters from Bristle.
I went out with a lovely young lady from Wedmore back in the 80's, I have fond memories of the place, but, it was insular even then to a wide boy from Wookey.
Wells gets a thumbs-up just for Hot Fuzz alone.
@@overcorpsend being classed as a city despite being no larger than you're average market town (cathedral is massive tho)
Wells is very posh with a great Waitrose Cathedral and Bishops Palace
Bruton and Frome are also fashionable and prosperous.
@@overcorpse Yeah, I was wondering if visitors to St. C's might be Hot Fuzz fans touring locations.
@@richardgale4827 No idea mate. I was born and raised in the civilised part of the West Country. Wiltshire. Though I am perilously close to the Somerset border.
What makes a posh “red or mustard corduroy “ town? It must have a Waitrose, a Seasalt, Crewe and Whitestuff, together with one of those expensive pots and pans shops that also sells Ooni pizza ovens , Aga accessories and Duelit toasters and depending on how rural it is, a gunsmith sand saddlers This is just our observation anyway.
wow you just described Southwold and Aldeburgh in suffolk!
@@TobasscoJelly Suffolk is full of them Bury st. Edmunds is another great one
I'm surprised Bruton isn't on the list. I remember the dreadful George Osborne moving there and it becoming the new Chipping Norton! Personally, not posh, but Wells and Frome are my favourites. Something about being beside the Mendips
I was expecting to see Bruton on the list.
i would have thought bruton is the poshest place in Somerset now
Was going to say this - Castle Cary is also quite 'posh' but Bruton would have been no 1 for me!
What about cheddar and congresbury?
Wells is boring has mostly awful people living there.
If I was that recipient of the deer, I would have left a thankyou note explaining that they were very much appreciated.
Better than a horse's head.
Portishead railway is on the cards for the last 40 years ! Still nice to see my mum's town covered.
Love this! I’m from Yatton (which has a train station!) and “Gormless tourist” in Portishead tickled me
There are lots of posh places in UK...nice...clean...and tidy...caring people....lots of country villages..nice neat hedges .
cut lawns...and houses in good repair...
The UK has some of the nicest looking houses going shame its let down buy are shit government letting what was beautiful places go to shit
Any town you can buy a Panama Hat and get your Barbour coat restitched counts as posh.
"There was an Audi" :-)) Great videos!! I got out of England 20 years ago and never looked back but these videos are so interesting. We last lived, for 8 years, in Rode just a few miles from Frome. Beautiful area but I could no longer cope with the weather. And I still love to visit Bath - as posh as it gets! Well done!!!
The Cotswolds used to be posh but ever since every W⚓ celebrity decided to move there it's removed any class it once had
Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen comes to mind, he's from a turd town called Blackwood originally.
Still posh. Very expensive houses.
@Bertie Schitz-Peas
Wasn't he the poncy woofter who loved designing rooms with MDF all time
@@dorkbrandon4422 Yeah that's the boi, he's probably torn between chuffed at being the only tv celeb from turd town Blackwood and being embarrassed that he's welsh.
Being from the West Country , I really like your channel. It’s great…many thanks..and keep up the good work..and give us all a chuckle or two, 👍
I love Bath looking around Shops in the City Centre
Bath's dark secret is that the people walk backwards...
That’s the second secret
My guess is that it has a Wetherspoons!
@@Turdtowns I worked in Bath from 1973 to '79. Once away from the centre, there are some pretty rough estates...
@Fosbren Yep. Outside all the tourist traps, the rest of the city is pretty grim.
@@christophernewman5027Pretty much every large town or small city has. They kind of have to in a way, or where else would the minimum wage workers live.
This is probably increased further when there's a university in the town and the students from more modest families need somewhere to live. These are often badly looked after both by the students and by their landlords too so they can make the general image look quite neglected and run down - very long grass, dirty old paint etc. The example of this I know best is Canterbury that is very posh in the expensive places and very dilapidated and in the cheapest places, like you've mashed together a posh town like those in this video with a rough town like the other ones on this channel and it has patches of both. I'd imagine Bath is the same (albeit a bit posher overall because it's extremely posh).
Can't wait for posh towns in Devon
I saw my house in this video!! Very exciting. And Im about as posh as a discarded McDonald's bag, blown up against a wrought iron fence.
Mate have you even been to Bruton?
It's a town that consists almost entirely of private schools and art galleries.
Wedmore was actually one of the very first places in England to have mains electricity (Thanks to some rich bloke who setup generators)
As someone from the place - we all went to the comprehensive and generally its actually got a very friendly community feel.
It looks lovely.
Generally, every town and city in the UK has "posh" areas and lower down the pecking order they all have "middle class" areas. If you take Manchester for example - the city centre might look quite run down, but its suburbs (some might argue which aren't technically in Manchester) are extremely posh, such as Wilmslow and Altrincham. Even the city centre has swanky apartment blocks etc. The difference in the UK is that posh and poor people tend to live nearby to each other, rather than being separated. There are some "towns" that tend to be posher rather than deprived - but overall, every major town and city has poor, middle class, and posh areas.
My local town (Darlington) is a perfect example. The "inner city" is really quite deprived. The rows and rows of dilapidated terraced streets with (generally) non working residents, are located just 1 mile from the "West End" of Darlington - an area of leafy, detached homes with acres of space. The West End takes up about 40% of the area of the town. Then there's several "okay areas" dotted around the town which don't fall into deprived or posh. So, is Darlington a "turd town"? Well, parts of it are, and parts of it are not. The town centre is actually okay because there's enough wealth nearby to sustain a lot of the independent shops etc.
The UK isn't like America where wealth tends to exist totally separate to deprivation. The UK's a small country geographically, and so people have to live closer together.
I'd say the whole of the UK has posh, middle class and deprived areas.
You’re right but bad areas can be fine, bad or really bad.
Manchester city centre looks far from run down...no empty shops, thriving cafes and restaurants....which part of the city centre are you referring to?
@@davidowen2396 Take it you haven't been to Piccadilly Gardens recently?
@@harrychown6854 Yes I have..to me it's okay...but not everybody's cup of tea...I thought you were referring to the city centre as a whole...
@@davidowen2396 Only been there once but was really impressed by the city center. Some fine buildings. Lots of ladies very dressed up to do their shopping.
I really enjoyed this. I've said it before: your posts are smart and very witty.
Thanks again my friend
Great video, I live in the area and apart from the MP/MEP issue its really accurate. One update though, NatWest and HSBC have announced that they will be closing their Frome bank branches this year.
Ag that’s lame I thought it was too good to be true
Update: Barclays will be joining HSBC and NatWest in their bank closures
Frome and Dulverton put a smile on my face, thank you!
I live in Martock which is exceedingly posh. Love this part of the world
When you said Wedmore was famous for one person, I thought, for a mad moment, that you were going to say Alfred the Great.
In today's Britain, I should heve known better, I suppose.
I live just down the road from Dulverton , in Bampton, which is another lovely village, maybe not quite as posh as Dulverton, though personally don’t regard Dulverton as that posh really, but then again rural living in beautiful Devon can be regarded as quite posh living.
Good. It's nice to see people do well.
Posh people have tea in the evening with cucumber sandwiches, expect others to run around after them without having to say thank you to the plebs. Having money doesn't make you posh. Thanks for another great video, love the commentary
Thank you hopefully one day I can have cucumber sandwiches
Lol,sorry but Tea is taken in the afternoon with Dinner taken in the evening and not all people who follow tradition look down on people who don't.
Nonsense. Posh people have lunch at midday and dinner in the evening.
Afternoon tea is afternoon not evening.🙄
@@deesolomon4819 don't apologise, I am a full time carer I hardly know what day it is most days let alone what meal is eaten when 🤣🤣🤣
Bath is beautiful I went there on a schooltrip to Gloucestershire (Cowley Manor if that's still a thing?) We visited the Roman Baths, completely wasted on me and my mates (we were only 10!)
I live in mid-Wales at the moment as I'm attending university, but I have enough ancestral heritage from Wedmore to stake a claim on a house free of charge. My family has been in the Wedmore and Mark area since the 1500's. What family I have in Somerset now lives in Cheddar and Langport but I'd love to go back there someday. Somerset is very expensive if you want to live somewhere good though!
" but I have enough ancestral heritage from Wedmore to stake a claim on a house free of charge. " LOL what a cunt.
I am going to guess you are at Aberystwyth!
@@alwayspooh1588 Abers is West Wales. I'm near Carmarthen. :)
@@locklear7937 Ah! I always had Aber down as mid to north. Well, as a fellow student, good luck with your studies, study hard and best wishes!
Langport is dire. I lived and worked there for a year and I've never felt so depressed! More so than living in Bridgwater where I'm currently stuck 😂😢
Grew up in portishead and I always love going back there when visiting my parents. It’s such a quite and pleasant place.
Made the mistake of driving back to Taunton from Dulverton via Wimbleball in peak pheasant season. Stressful to say the least 😪 😅
Mad to think Chew Magna is just a stone's throw from Bishopsworth..they're Poles apart
Posh is - trust funds and kale with humus and hunting with hounds. and Tweed.
You can tell a posh person by the size of their television. Posh people have a little one in the corner in a bespoke handmade cupboard.
Another great upload from my new favorite CZcams channel!
Thanks Steve!
I agree with others that Bruton, Dunster and wells should be on this list. You're bang on about Wedmore though, very snooty.
I think north Somerset should have it's own list, it's an entirely different county as far as I'm concerned.
And Watchet is much nicer than Mine head.
Dulverton is quite lovely, it's true. However, it isn't perfect - they lost their bank and I think the ATM went too but there is one in the Co op. The car parking can be a nightmare. We holiday there and it can be great, with some great places for lunch including the Tantivy, the Copper Kettle and Mortimer's to name just a few. 👍
Sash windows, no upvc, respect for architecture, no massive eyesore shopping centres, open shops, maybe a castle or river, private schools, antique shops and history generally.
Pretty accurate
Portishead has one of the best bands ever named after it !
I'm a simple man my definition of posh is all the residents taking their bins out 😂
As a former resident of South Somerset, I find it hilarious that anyone could possibly consider Langport as "posh".
As for Porlock, Wedmore and Chew Magna, substitute "posh" for "up themselves".
I'm a "former" resident for a reason. People make a place, 'nuff said.
Yea they aren’t the friendliest places. Frome on the overhand was very friendly.
@Turdtowns Frome has a lot of "outsiders" living there which is possibly why that is.
I agree about Wedmore people being up themselves these days. Before my Great Uncle died (he'd lived in Wedmore all his life mind) he said that the village was nothing like it used to be; all the old families had moved away to find work and been replaced by city folk and posh nobs who thought they were owed something. The laughable thing is that my family has roots in Wedmore going back to the 1500's - I have more legitimacy to be living there than probably anyone living there now - yet I could buy a house in the community and be treated like a dirty outsider. Not that I could afford to live there however!
I would say the same about Frome (my hometown). At one point (admittedly a few decades ago) this was centre page of a major newspaper as roughest town in Britain
So funny...lol.
an inetresting and enlightening way to see the UK at it's best and worst! Keep up the good work.
So, in my idiosyncratic rural county of Pembrokeshire, all the pleasanter, affluent settlements (e.g. Narberth, Tenby, Trefdraeth) tend too have less then 5k people. Not only does this mean that they are just to small to attract the bland, national chain stores and supermarkets, they also have centres dominated by historic buildings, with less floorspace and therefore lower rates, allowing independent shops flourish. This makes them popular with tourists and wealthier shoppers from nearby places. Meanwhile, the larger settlements like Haverfordwest and Pembroke Dock are rathe run down, with edge of town supermarkets and nationally known brands, but have dead high streets. Is this a pattern that you all see in your areas of the country?
I've noticed all the stereotype council estates were built in between the end of World War 2 and the 1974 Local Government Reorganisation. Those in the villages seem better looked after and more have been bought; even what few flats there are in places such as Ashover, Kelstedge, Holymoorside, Wadshelf etc seem a world away from the stereotype...
Dulverton can get a tad noisy at weekends and holidays from endless motorcycles bombing through
Great video, I've recently moved to Stoke Sub Hamdon in Somerset, watching your posh video shows me places I'd like to visit 👍
Fantastic. 35 seconds in and you show my town. I’m so proud 😂
Posh means you have wealth and taste, not just rich and tasteless.
Posh people usually have the worst taste and treat others like servants.
The city of Bath is my first thought when I think of posh
It definitely is one of the poshest places I’ve ever visited. I almost felt that I needed to drive back to Birmingham and change my outfit 😂
@@mariancounselloryou're kidding,Bath is filthy!
It's not very posh. That's a legend clinging on from the 1930s era and of course perpetuated by the Bath Tourist office in conjunction with the Council. In fact back in it's heyday the 18th century,Beau Nash and all that,it wasn't posh either,only superficially. It was the 18th century Las Vegas and Jane Austen who had to live there for a few short years hated the place. There is hardly any real posh people living in Bath. They live in one or other of the pretty villages outside or a nearby town like Bradford on Avon or Marshfield.
I grew up in Chew Magna. Now I live in London at 30 years old. I miss it to this day.
You really have done your homework, well done. You are spot on
For a surprising posh town try Caldy, Wirral. It's home to those in the association football business and such. An outside bog will set you back at least £1M. And it's just 8 miles from the uber turd town of Birkenhead.
Sounds like a bigger contrast than Crewe / Nantwich; more like Crewe / Alderley Edge (although they have the industrial Sandbach in between).
Frome is lovely, It strikes a good balance, Not super posh though clearly quite affluent. It also has a strong interest in arts & culture, and the monthly craft market is a good time to visit. It feels quite like the Bishopston/Ashley down area of bristol.
As I live in Somerset, I really enjoy these video's. My town was a turd town, not a posh town! No surprise there!
i stayed in a hottage about 10 min from dulverton and it was brilliant there, freindly locals, pub had a nice pint and their summer fair was on witch was brilliant
@@KMJackson me and me fat thumbs 😂😂
Bath is hiding some dark hidden secrets !!!!! Tell me about it @ 13:05 it does seem that everybody in this town is walking backwards😊😊
Bath is a city 👍
@@waverunner3911 Well spotted 😍😍
I go to Dulverton every year on holiday. Never found the locals to be rude.
Love this, subscribed for more posh and turd towns! Can’t wait for you to get to County Durham
Thanks my friend
Ferryhill....Blackhall Colliery....Spennymoor....Hartlepool....Tow Law.....spoiled for choice up there man. I was posh, lived in a semi in Esh Winning.
Enjoy ur video's keep em coming
I mean you could describe young people who live in some of these areas as successful but equally you could describe them as privileged. The latter is much more likely in the UK in my experience. Most young successful people, couldn't afford to live in some of these places.
I think it comes down to young successful people being sensible with their money. I have friends in their late 20s who managed to buy in places on this list. All from having good jobs but being financially savvy at the same time.
Working hard and being successful isn't a privilege. Its a reward. Sure, there will always be those rich families but they are in the minority.
@@Turdtowns With the way thing are heading, having a good job and benig financially savvy aren't going to be enough any more. When hard work no longer pays the average individual it's time to seek better political representation.
@@Vroomfondle1066 hard work might mean having multiple streams of income and running a business or creating a product that sells well. There’s always ways to make money.
@@Turdtowns My daughter and son-in-law are extremely savvy cash wise, they both work two jobs, one has a doctorate and published papers, both have 🥇degrees. BUT, in their mid-thirties, no offspring, one small dog are still unable to get one foot on the property ladder, instead they pay exorbitant rent (Thatcher gave all the power to landlords/ladies) and the housing market has just become even more expensive, unattainable, it makes my 🩸boil. 😤👵🏻🇬🇧
Bath is quite posh & beautiful and of course should of been county town of Somerset.
As for Frome, my niece has one of those independent shops. My brother has lived there for 40 years and has seen it improve considerably in that time. But, you're right, it's not yet posh.
Loved the commontary 😂😂 subbed on strength, fair play on three vids i watched..
Dulverton is lovely! Surprised you've not mentioned Wells though?
Would've been a brilliant mention given its the smallest city in England (not counting City of London as that's part of a larger urban agglomeration defacto known as the largest city)
cracking ironmongers in Wells. I bought some paint in there a few years back.
The word 'posh' is an acronym for 'Port Out, Starboard Home'.
Yes we know.
That's a classic old wives tale. It supposedly stood for “Port Out, Starboard Home”. It is explained that somebody who had a cabin on the port side on the outward trip, and on the starboard side on the return trip, had the benefit of the sea breeze, and shelter from the sun, on the hottest part of the journey through the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. Such cabins were reserved for the most wealthy passengers, we are told, and the P&O company stamped their tickets with POSH to show their status.
The trouble is there’s absolutely no evidence for it and P&O flatly denies any such term existed. It’s just a legend, though a very persistent one. One argument against it is that posh is known from 1918, while the story of its origin first appears only decades later.
The most probable solution - though unprovable because slang is so rarely written down - is that it comes from London street slang for money. This may well derive from Romany posh, half, originally applied to a halfpenny, then to any small sum of money, and then to money in general. This is recorded from as early as 1830 and was certainly still around in 1892 when Montagu Williams published his Down East and Up West, quoting in it a comment from a Londoner about a street singer who chatted up potential givers of money: “That sort of patter I was just speaking of is the thing to get the posh, they’ll tell you”. A shift in sense from “money”, to “well off”, and hence to “upper-class” is not too hard to imagine.
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I hope you and your reviews sometime make it to Scotland!
I stayed in Porlock in June 2016 and found it to be a very beautiful place with lots of great walks in the woods and along the sea.
Money don't make them no better than anybody else .
I’ve stayed in Bath and Portishead and they’re both really expensive places to stay in. but lots to do and see. Bath is definitely full of posh people
The homeless living in the carparks&doorways of Bath would make you realise that where there's extreme wealth,there's also extreme poverty&much poverty.
So good to hear Bath pronounced the right way. Interested to know more about it’s ‘dark secrets.’ Does it involve the BA2 post code at all? 😉
Come to tynemouth whitley Bay and South Shields is good coastal towns North Shields too
I lived around Bath for over 12 yrs and I definitely like From and Bradford on Avon, I moved to Trowbridge (which is shithole) and used to travel to Frome a bit, I like the historical streets and feel of it.
SO agree about Trowbridge!
A posh town or village is where the population have a strong sense of civic responsibility and constantly want to keep improving it, keeping it clean, tidy and to encourage local businesses.
No, it's not. It is when Londoners move in and price out the younger generation of locals.
They may want to keep it clean ... which is a good thing ... but they also want to keep/price out others who are not like "them", creating little enclaves of exclusivity.
@@overcorpse When that happens, you get no one able to work low-paid jobs during the "off" season - fishing, cafes etc.
@@overcorpse most born and bred Londoners were driven out, by being denied social housing, been going on 35 years,
I bet none of these so called Londoners sound like me.
They keep their own village clean whilst they support the Western invasions of foreign countries.
Virtuous they are not.
GG once lived at No 1 High Street Kings Lynn for 2 years
Having watched a few of these vids, it seems like 'Turd' = empty shops, 'Posh' = open shops. What drives me barmy is places that HAVE shops, but don't bloody open them. Then you go back in two years' time and they're all closed down. Yeah, not letting customers in your shop will do that. Frome not only has lots of independent niche shops bubbling with enthusiasm, but every time I go there, they're open. Actually OPEN!
Oh yeah - open 3 days a week, for about 3 hours a day, but not the hours listed on google maps. Great.
Yea I get what you’re saying. I think empty shops makes the centre look ugly. I try to couple it with crime data, house prices, local news etc. love more input though anything else you could suggest?
@@Turdtowns Acknowledging the correlation rather than criticising it. Given the limited time you have available to visit towns, I reckon your hit rate's pretty sound, actually.
Loving your channel mate. Disappointed you didn't say much about Bath. It's posh in the centre but go to the outskirts and not so nice. House prices have shot up due to tourism and rich londoners. I grew up here in the 80s and 90s and not one of my friends from school can afford a house here so we all moved away. The town centre had a lot of work done to it but there's barely any shops for us locals. Feels like the place has a massive gap between rich and poor.
I’m saving that for a full city review and thanks
@@Turdtowns nice one. I will look forward to that 👍
I've been to the tourist places of Bath and it was amazing. Lovely cafes and the roman baths are great
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerekit's a horrible place in which to live,&I think that if you lived here,then you would rapidly grow to dislike the place for a great number of reasons.
Dunster, Wells, Ilminster, Somerton & Castle Cary are others to mention.
I thought the same. I moved to Keinton Mandeville 4 years back from having lived in scabby North LDN most of my life. KM is rather upper class hence expensive! I live in the smallest cottage in KM, one bedroom a wee courtyard though I do have me own Blue Lias stone drive. It's a tiny property but recently valued at just shy of £200,000....that's craaaaazy!
What about Bruton?
Surprised not to see Somerton on the list. Great vid though 👍🏼
@@nathandepasquale9571 True.....if I get too near to the Somerton locals they tend to go for their pepper spray & as for my own village of KM I get starred at as though I'm on tagged day release from Wormwood Scrubs. I think it's very judgemental......just because both my dog & I walk with a distinguished limp & are partial to a Tennants Super & a pork scratching.....so rude!
@@burntcrumpets5616 whaaaaat? That's ridiculous! Sorry to hear that!
I agree with everyone, that said Bruton or Wells should have been on the list. They're definitely posh places and got their private schools in town.
I live in Frome and since you visited we only have the Building Societies left, all other banks have closed. And don't get anyone here started on the London folk pricing us locals out.
Chew Magna sounds like something from Game of Thrones
Chagford is a weird posh village in Devon when all around it is suffering from the typical issues. It's propped up by wealthy outsiders who make/made their money outside the county. I have known locals who have lived there for short periods and found it a bit strange because it's very much a bubble that operates differently than anywhere else.
They probably call it Chaggers
Chagford the very definition of posh town.
Sixty years ago I and my siblings lived at our grandma + granddad's farm up on the moor outside Chagford. We lived there for two months while my Mum was in hospital. Being little kids it felt like a year especially as we had the full range of weather from deep snow to blazing sunshine. The farm was called Lingcombe then,it was finally sold last year. But my siblings and I haven't seen much of our legal share of the proceeds. I don't know. Lawyers! I'm with Shakespeare. But I recall Chagford then,grim and dull,like everywhere else,practical and workaday. So imagine my surprise about two years ago on watching a Countryfile based in Chagford to find out it's now chock full of artists,writers and organizers of Fairy workshops!
@@janebaker966 Sounds very familiar. My family have a country estate which includes a village but a lot of the properties were sold off to pay for inheritance tax and quickly became stockbroker weekend cottages (not that we got stockbroker prices for them!). It rapidly shifted from being mainly agricultural workers to partly a commuter dormitory village in the late 1990s. Not that commuters don't deserve to live in quaint places, but some of them started petitions about the smell of slurry, tractors parked on the high street, the pub not serving food, the village shop only selling tinned food etc. I had to chair a village meeting in 2018 where the Chair of the parish council and the local (Labour) MP introduced me. The MP said, "In light of your grievences let me present X, who owns 95% of your village." Never seen botox fail so rapidly. I'd been sitting next to them in the pub and church for several years and they assumed I was a local peasant 😆. The next week I had about 6 invitations to BBQs, all of which I replied to by saying "It's usual for me to invite new arrivals to call on me , but in the meantime have you considered making a contribution to our food bank or chancel repair fund?"
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Why is change so depressing? Why does it bring out the NIMBY in folk?
The feel of villages as bankers weekend retreats depresses one's English soul because of a), the loss of a community and b), the failure of the local industry to house it's locals and keep the unlocal, far-flung. E.g. I visit my friend and her banker boyf in a west Oxfordshire village. It sounds like your description. Their weekend bolthole is a ghastly barn conversion with unhuman windows in walls that were not designed for fenestration. Nothing anywhere feels right about barn conversions, unless perhaps if you are bovine? The village feels as if it is suffering from an accidental dump of nuclear waste, or, death of a slice of history. Luckily my friend is not English and the boyfriend is from preppy US so they have no idea how depressed I feel in my v English soul when I visit. Needless to say the so-called village has no shop. Chelsea tractors and electric gates. Not an "affordable" abode within 30 odd miles. It all feels deeply weird.
Nice that a town has named itself after Portishead, the 90s Trip Hoppers. What was it called before?
I went to drama school in Paddington W2 with one of Portisheads band members. I now live in South Somerset not far from Langport. Been here 4 years having moved from scabby North LDN. Much happier now.
@@burntcrumpets5616 I moved back to my Yorkshire homeland 23 years ago, after 15 happy years in London. I was worried that I wouldn’t settle but I’ve never looked back. I don’t even like to visit now. Never met a Portishead, although I did work in a Post Office with the Ozric Tentacles tom tom player.
@@paulannable3734 Ozrics was my sound track circa 90 - 94. Great, trippy band. Saw them twice at Glasto 92. Portishead were also great.
@@spinny2010 Glastonbury 1992! I was there! Wasn’t it hot that year… Lou Reed was unexpectedly fantastic.
Really good videos. Discovered recently and watched them all. Do Fife!
Thanks my friend
'posh' in this context is partly wealth, but also:
Properties with preservation orders
strict planning permissions for extensions, satellite dishes.
A code for building materials (see Bath).
Manicured/well kept gardens and properties with little to no litter & graffitti.
On the cars, personalised 'plates'.
A residents association/neighbourhood watch.
All the quaint little independent cafes in Frome and you want a Starbucks?
I'm still trying to recover from that one too....
Your films show how polarised the country is becoming. It's sad that anywhere that is regarded as a decent place to live is automatically "posh". There are surely still some "in-between" places which are not green wellie country or full of boarded up, graffitied shops. My own town still has a traditional bakers, butchers and fishmongers (and a Waitrose!) but they sit alongside charity shops, Greggs and even a Wimpy Bar. Sadly the boards have started to go up as well. The last of the banks has just closed and we've also lost our post office. Due to it's proximity to London housing is becoming less affordable,, but so far it has managed to attract a good mix of people. It will be interesting to see if this can continue.
Stuff Georgian Bath. Medieval Wells is right next door, with its own Cathedral (with a private school), weekly farmers' markets, and the nearby Mendip Hills. Reckon it could 'outposh' Bath any day.