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Is Liphook posh? - Annie (10th Jun 2016 - 10:46:28) Would you describe Liphook as posh?

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Bush (10th Jun 2016 - 12:34:24) 'Posh' is a relative measurement. 'Posh' compared to what? where?

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Local Resident (10th Jun 2016 - 12:41:39) I would describe Liphook as a very agreeable. It is surrounded by beautiful countryside, yet has all the amenities you need. It is most definitely one of the nicer places in the country to be.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - dave (10th Jun 2016 - 12:45:30) Villages are not posh. Individuals might or might not be.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - M (10th Jun 2016 - 13:21:27) Nope I wouldn't say posh as it's the wrong word to describe liphook, but just because it's not "posh" doesn't mean it isn't nice. People may think they are but doesn't make liphook posh, it's a country village more history in it then anything

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Annie (10th Jun 2016 - 14:08:36) Thankyou for your responses. Sorry if my question was ambiguous. I suppose I meant, are the majority of people who live in Liphook well spoken/highly educated?

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Big A (10th Jun 2016 - 14:39:23) I dunt fink peple are posh in riphook

Re: Is Liphook posh? - h (10th Jun 2016 - 16:01:21) Not all well educated well spoken people are "posh"! I think that there are pockets of different areas, as there is everywhere. I would not say though that a commuting place such as Liphook with 3.5k households could be described as a village, perhaps if the local supermarket was waitrose not sainsbury and we had no charity shops our houses would all be worth 20 per cent more! Also I would far rather be surrounded by kind, helpful neighbourly souls rather than "Posh People" who may cross the road rather than speak to someone with the "wrong accent"! How sad that in this day and age you ask that question!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - h (10th Jun 2016 - 17:06:20) Just noticed my grammar mistake in previous post! I am therefore not posh!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Dave (10th Jun 2016 - 18:11:33) Annie Who is better educated - people who spend big chunks of their life stuck commuting in over full cattle truck trains or people who come from little and move around the world to build a better life? I think overall Liphook is a pretty decent place with a good cross section of "educated" people

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Annie (10th Jun 2016 - 18:54:21) Sorry if I have come across as a snob. My husband and I are both university educated and where we live now, the majority of people are not and we don't feel we fit in. We are trying to find a place to live with more like minded people. It sounds like Liphook would provide that.:-)

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Ex-liphookonian (10th Jun 2016 - 20:03:35) Are you for real or are you on a windup? You sound like that sort of person no one wants as a neighbour. The sort of person who moans that the Christmas decorations are too old fashioned, there are not enough coffee shops, there is nowhere for Tarquina to get her pony shod. Get real, join in the many local charities, eg Liphook in bloom, the peak centre, guides, scouts etc or move to haslemere- you'll fit in well!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - M (10th Jun 2016 - 20:54:40) Most people I know in liphook are hard grafters and have been all there life and so are there family. I'm sorry but if you are that up yourself that you look down at people as you have a "good" education and they don't then shame on you! Never judge a book by its cover , people graft for there living and that's how I think it should be. Not a piece of paper saying what it does or does not make you!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Becks (10th Jun 2016 - 21:50:11) As someone that grew up in the poorest part of a major city in the North, I actually find this comment quite disgusting! Not only do I have a different accent but guess what... I went to uni too. So what does that make me? You apologise for coming across as snobby , yet then come out with one of he snottiness things I've seen on here. That's a whole class of it's own. And I got there by hard work. You don't have to be posh to be educated. And judging by this, I'd much rather be where I am, than have such a superior mindset.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - h (10th Jun 2016 - 23:16:30) Given that degrees are now obtained in media studies, philosophy, teaching, drama, even nurses now have to have a degree, I would not consider someone better educated than me, just because they have the all important student loan to spend their life repaying. I am sure that you will be a happier person if you stopped judging people on that basis. Some people I know have degrees but they are not at all well spoken, so the question you are really asking in a thinly veiled way Annie, is does liphook have a lot of middle class residents, in order that you will feel comfortable and not surrounded by the working or non working class? I would not dream of asking any of my neighbours if they have degrees or not, it has seriously never arisen as a question in any conversation I have heard in my life. If I were you Annie, I would seriously reconsider my core values.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Simon (11th Jun 2016 - 08:40:03) Got to be a wind up, surely.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - wolfie smith (11th Jun 2016 - 09:13:23) great post annie. light hearted, interesting. some of the walls on here who have replied want to get a life. i'd say it is 'quite posh'. not as posh as bramshot. posher than passfield, midland etc.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - wendy (11th Jun 2016 - 09:41:53) well, this got everyone going didn't it? we are all human beings, we all come into the world the same, and we all go out of it the same. Some of us are kind, happy and healthy, some are unkind, unhappy and unhealthy. Some are clever, some are not, whether we are posh poor black white or yellow, is irrelivent, we all get the one life, Enjoy it. Class is just a state of mind, and means very little these days, thank goodness.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - D (11th Jun 2016 - 10:45:44) Is Liphook POSH? Mmmm what a question! I don't think anyone would ever call themselves POSH but some people might call others POSH. Whether a place can be called POSH isn't quite correct (I think most people know POSH comes from "Port Out Starboard Home" and is based on the best cabins on a transatlantic cruise,I think it would need to be a very big cruise ship to get the whole of Liphook on board!). Unfortunately I've personally found that some very well educated people have a lack of common sense and understanding of other people. Maybe Annie has "Typed first before thinking" with regard to her question. I personally don't think Liphook could be termed POSH. It's a nice place with a broad spectrum of residents with great community spirit. If Annie and her husband are looking for somewhere else to live their aren't many other places that could better it overall. Just a word of advice if you do move here, just be a good person and neighbour, respect others and their opinion and get involved in local life.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Lord Boarhunt (11th Jun 2016 - 13:32:44) There is plenty of poshness in the area and if you are careful where you walk you will be able to avoid any working and uneducated persons quite easily. I've found that by staying at the golf course as much as I can and making sure I have a first class rail ticket for travel I can stay posh quite easily. There are also plenty of scalliwags in the area to wash your car, cut the lawns etc and because Bohunt school is meant to be quite good (even though they let you in for free), most of them can read and write. You will also find that even Waitrose deliver to the village so you don't have to go to Sainsburys and mix with masses Tally ho!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Nic (11th Jun 2016 - 14:36:14) Nah, best avoid Liphook and look at Haslemere or Petersfield.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - James (11th Jun 2016 - 17:49:05) Waitrose? But surely that's a workers' co-operative? Just like the Co-Op! I won't be seen dead in it. Anyway, it's self-service.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Paul Robinson (11th Jun 2016 - 19:46:47) I have always understood that the yard stick for' Posh' was Grapes on the sideboard when on one was ill Does this help? Paul Robinson

Re: Is Liphook posh? - GG (11th Jun 2016 - 22:32:41) Like in the famous TV sketch, Haslemere is John Cleese... they are upper class. Liphook is Ronnie Barker... we are middle class. Bordon is Ronnie Corbett. They know their place. If you want to know what Liphook is like, watch the film 'Hot Fuzz'.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - h (11th Jun 2016 - 23:41:23) wikipedia tells me that Posh is an adjective meaning " Upper Class" perhaps we should all practice saying " Air Hair Low " before she moves in!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Lips (12th Jun 2016 - 09:12:51) Well said GG. Who was expecting a grown-up sensible argument on a social issue on this forum? Not I. The usual slur of posh-bashing, the politically correct legitimised abuse. Lower classes seem to have a huge chip on their shoulders, overly-sensitive and overly-reactive. Posh people are far from perfect - but are also far less trigger-happy. Too much anger, too much angst. It is possible to have a less unpleasant and more civil debate. Possible without the usual hurtling of abuse at the posh or sectors perceived as more comfortable or self-secure.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - h (12th Jun 2016 - 10:11:32) Sorry Lips but I think a bit of gentle leg pulling cannot be described as " abuse". Perhaps you are letting your insecurities show. I personally object to the residents of liphook being described as ignorant yokel types generally of low I Qs. Perhaps living in Bramshott means you lose your sense of humour somwhere in Church Road. I have lived in many different areas, even places like Kensington, where even there the demographic is quite evenly spread across the social classes. A friend of mine was at a party there, one of the guests was the son of the Marquis of Bath, who was arrested and sent to prison for 2 years for dealing drugs. There is no need to think that just because some people are possibly affluent, they have the right to quantify others as somehow lesser mortals. We are all different, and the only country in the world obsessed with class!

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Headley Road (12th Jun 2016 - 13:15:48) What a Great Thread !! Well Done Annie, I say ! Liphook is definitely posh in my view; surely scoring high or very high on Paul's excellent grapes yardstick. However our status is surely being marred by those Gents - thankfully only a few, but worrying - who wear red trousers when walking around the village centre.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - tony (12th Jun 2016 - 13:40:33) h of course you are right, Kensington is a really great example of a diverse community, it has the foreign criminal oligarch billionaires, the British tax avoiding multi millionaires and your run of the mill average Joe millionaires. In fact you can now buy a studio flat for as little as 2 million on some streets, snap them up whilst they last. But as much as I love Liphook, and agree with GG's jokey analysis of the three classes, I would add that Petersfield is really the best example of a well rounded town, a proper mix of classes, with a great market square, picturesque lake with cafe, decent shops, swimmimg pools (two for gods sake, where's ours?), great countryside and transport links. The two biggest things we beat them on is being a bit closer to London and a smaller more village community feel, but we're rapidly throwing that last one away for the god of higher house prices and big housing estates without ANY of the compensations! When it's gone it's gone.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Sarah (12th Jun 2016 - 17:00:48) Annie Liphook is teeming with people who are University educated - to undergrad, postgrad and doctoral level. It is also teeming with very successful and intelligent non-university educated people! We are not a village of uneducated inbreds. Many people do now or have lived and worked elsewhere and a vast proportion of the population has a household member who commutes to London or other non-yokel places. I would suggest that if you dwell on your own education too much you will come across as pompous - most people don't talk about it beyond graduation or a job application.

Re: Is Liphook posh? - liz (13th Jun 2016 - 08:42:39) I'm not sure if you can say this nowadays - I'll leave that to the Editor, but many years ago the people of Haslemere (very posh) would say that Bordon is where the gypsies live and Liphook is where the educated gypsies live...... As it is historic, I think it's safe :-)

Re: Is Liphook posh? - Dave (13th Jun 2016 - 09:50:52) If Liphook is posh the posh people have hidden it well with the planning of the centre and lack of butchers, coffee society, green grocers As a commuter town Liphook has a good cross section

Re: Is Liphook posh? - soon to be new resident (15th Jun 2016 - 10:37:55) hello all I have been reading this feed with interest and amusement. We are moving to Liphook this summer, from a very 'Posh' area of South West London. Reason for leaving.... ridiculously priced houses basically, sick of London.... sick of the South West London alpha mums one-upmanship.... I need fresh air...... cut n run...... our reasons for moving to Liphook.... a beautiful village to enjoy..... excellent schools...... a more 'outdoorsy lifestyle' for my two children..... and beautiful reasonably priced housing..... great education..... friendly people (from the ones i've met so far !!) certainly not because we thought it was POSH !! We certainly wouldn't count ourselves as that posh, my husband has a great job which allows me to be a stay at home mum who does a little part time job on the side. I personally am really excited to be moving into the area and meeting a new circle of people.

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