Home Counties

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(place) by zakale (?) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:43:08

The large suburban, complacement, middle-class area surrounding London.

(That's London, England, by the way.)

No one says they want to live there but lots of people do. Especially stockbrokers.

(place) by freezeup (3.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:43:08

I live in the Home Counties. Not everyone here is middle class, quite a lot of them are just pretending to be middle class.

It is, however, bland, totally without soul, has very little sense of community, the booze is horrifically expensive, the housing is insanely expensive, and the people are so up their own arses you would not believe.

(place) by Albert Herring (23 min) (print) ? (I like it!) Mon Sep 24 2001 at 0:49:21

Not a very clearly defined area: Chambers describes it as the counties into which the London conurbation has spread - taking these from the time prior to the local government reforms of 1973 this would mean Middlesex, Essex, Kent and Surrey. A defining concept might be that of the areas within reasonable commuting distance of London (ignoring the fact that a combination of ludicrous property prices and high salaries means that there are a few nutters commuting in daily from Doncaster and Bristol); that would at the very least add Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Sussex to the list, and probably Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Suffolk, although possibly only parts of those counties are really "home counties" in character. That character is much as zakale and freezeup describe it, although the areas delineated include a lot of what would be highly attractive countryside (the Chilterns, the Downs, the Weald, Ashdown Forest ...) if it wasn't full of estate agents in hot hatches, golf clubs and garden centres and that description could probably be applied to most of England if looked at with a jaundiced eye.

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yuppy scum	Tunbridge Wells	Middlesex	Surrey
Bridget Jones's Diary	Buckinghamshire	Del	Received Pronunciation
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kbd	Building an underground house	UL	Greater London Authority
South Mimms	John Thomas Cholmondeley-Minge	TiHKAL	Little Britain
Sussex	Midlands	extranet	regional accent

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