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Reply 100

India07

LucyKy

If there are a minority then how come I only saw like 3 people dressed in something other than versace/carrying a louis vutton bag/Gucci sunglasses holding their messy bleached blonde hair into place...

Yeah! Damn those posh London types! **Pulls cuff over Armani watch, brushes naturally bleach blonde hair out of face & zips up Louis Vuitton bag**

Curses! Er... I mean don't judge me! I'm nice! :smile:

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Reply 101

liss31d

I don't really know what 'social class' I will fit into as such as I have lived abroad for 10 years of my life in the Middle East (originally from Ireland though). I go to a British independent fee paying school (expat kids don't have a choice in this matter, all of the schools are fee paying), but the company that my dad works for pays the fees... I guess I would fit into the middle class area but it is very puzzling because when you live out here expats are in an odd way a group of their own, regardless of your former class background.

Rahs can be annoying but they don't bother me that much. After going to a school of lots of nationalities, it will probably be a bit odd being in a predominantly white environment (I'm white myself), but it isn't a problem. After having lived out of the UK for so long, I'm more worried about chavs and thugs to be honest :frown:

Kids who've lived abroad don't tend to be as streetwise.

Reply 102

Angelil

Exeter is nowhere near as chavtastic as other areas I've seen (Cardiff is full of them :p:

and where I live normally the chav level is just stratospheric so Exeter was a huge relief) and it's very safe as well.

Reply 103

city_chic

Angelil

Cardiff is full of them :p:

Too true

Reply 104

Calon Lan

Cardiff's not that chavvy! Compared to Exeter fair enough but there are much chavvier places

Reply 105

city_chic

Calon Lan

Cardiff's not that chavvy! Compared to Exeter fair enough but there are much chavvier places

All I see are chavs when I go to town, haha :p:

That's not to say all Cardiffians are chavs though. I'm certainly not one :p:

Reply 106

Sephrenia

In two terms I've only encountered chavs a few times (normally in Primark...) Although overhearing their conversations can be *very* amusing..

Reply 107

The Boosh

the city centre has a pikey park which drives me mad. you know, the one beside central station and behind the phoenix ("rougement gardents"? (sp?)). i've lived in the city centre for a few years and avoid that place like the plague because it seems to me to be the only place where the pikeys cluster in the summer to drink diamond white and get into arguments which scare the young children.

Reply 108

jjbristol

no exeter's not posh i been there before and although quite middle class that doesnt make it automatically posh it's just a case of adjusting to the local dialect lol

Reply 109

Angelil

We're talking about Exeter the uni, not Exeter the town.

Reply 110

jjbristol

yes i was referring to the uni

Reply 111

Angelil

See, I would disagree. The statement you made sounds more like Exeter the town.

Reply 112

Sephrenia

I'd agree with Angelil on this one, saying local dialect makes it sound as if you're talking about the town [Devonshire accent] I wouldn't say the uni itself has a local dialect...especially since everyone come from all over the place!

Reply 113

moshing-fairy

India07

I'm scared of you now.

I have blonde hair and an armani watch.

MAIS i do not own a louis vuitton bag or any such nonsense designer handbags :P.

:P.... :biggrin:

and im rly rather poor or would be if i didnt work alll the time :frown:

Reply 114

Kengurnu

It's true that Exeter has a slightly larger proportion of Independent School Students (24%) than other Unis, but people who went to private schools aren't necessarily posh! I did and while i would admit to a slightly elevated elocution :p:

I definitely wouldn't call myself posh.

That said, i was in state school until year 8 and mine wasn't a boarding school, I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Anyway all this is beside the point, make friends with posh peeps and you might get free drinks! :p:

Reply 115

Ariadne

Aside from the overtly 'posh' people in Ex (who usually migrate from Holland Hall to Long Lounge and back and are thus pretty avoidable :rolleyes:

), most of the time you really can't tell what background someone has. And to be honest, once you're past freshers week, NO-ONE CARES. As for chavs, I don't think I've seen any on campus, ever.

Reply 116

Sephrenia

Exeter has chavs?! :p:

Reply 117

lmcorr

That reminds me of something amusing today...

The cash point at Natwest on campus was up the creek swallowing cards.. Anyway went into Natwest and queued up, almost immediately a stereotypical 'Exeter Luvvie' with her backcombed hair and huge sunglasses rushes past me to the now-free cashier and launches a diatrabe about the loss of her card, etc etc, almost on the verge of tears, the poor thing. I think I should feel guilty as I couldn't really help but smile.

Ariadne

Aside from the overtly 'posh' people in Ex (who usually migrate from Holland Hall to Long Lounge and back and are thus pretty avoidable :rolleyes:

), most of the time you really can't tell what background someone has. And to be honest, once you're past freshers week, NO-ONE CARES. As for chavs, I don't think I've seen any on campus, ever.

Very, very true. Unless you live in or near Holland or can afford to have lunch at the Long Lounge, its very unlikely you're going to see much of these elitist types. Even doing Law, which some regard to be the highest proportion for it, you don't really notice it. Of course you can tell the Prince William types a mile off (pastel coloured Ralph Lauren shirts tucked into straight cut chinos with deck shoes or brown brogues, a look I have yet to perfect :P) but for the most part as stated, you can't tell what background someone has at all. In halls I didn't live with anyone from London or the Home Counties at all. Although in the next block over there was a guy who went to Eton and one of his friends from Holland who was also private schooled, but got on really well with them, the background thing just isn't an issue.

Being as it is Exeter second in line after Bristol for Oxbridge rejects you're going to get that proportion, but not once have I ever been made to feel like I don't belong here or have been shunned for being 'one of them poor folk' :wink:

It is not lost on me how amusing it is to see 'being streetwise' as such an alien concept to these types though :smile:

Reply 118

Angelil

They do seem to try to put people from similar backgrounds together in accommodation as well so all the rahs end up in their own little rah ghettos away from us commoners :p:

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