How Posh Is Your Town -Just A Bit Of Fun...;-)

[JaneDoe2]

Our local town is so posh we have a pizza cottage not a hut (absolutely true I may take a pic!!)

[DaisyNonna]

cupid, here it's red shoes and no knickers.

[Clanad]

One of the business owners actually told me he had considered that Chris... problem was there wasn't enough room on his sign for your quip... As it stands now his "store" is a candy emporium called Hore's Sweet Shoppe ... no kidding... (his last name is Hore, which translates from the Middle Polish as "... no common sense" or altenately "...tin ear"...

[DTCwordfan]

Not posh at all - just a hamlet consisting of one church, one house and then several farms.....it's a dead village that used to be a tin/lead mining village and, back in the 19thC had over 22 cottages.

Several sheep for entertainment though!

[Buenchico]

Clanad:
If my name was 'Hore' I'd prefer to opt for the usual derivation of it as being from the Mediaeval English 'hore' (meaning 'grey') and thus forming a nickname for someone with grey hair.

I'd stick firmly to that definition even if my parents were Polish!

[sunny-dave]

My local city is so unposh that we have a 95p shop, which has undercut the 99p shop, that undercuts Poundland ...

[Buenchico]

Methyl:
MacDonald's would struggle to get planning permission here. (I can imagine Delia Smith, who lives nearby, leading a campaign against it).

We get plenty of horses ridden down the High Street but they're not the main traffic hazard. Ipswich has one of only two specialist cranes in the country which are capable of lifting really big luxury yachts and cruisers into the water, so a succession of them head to Ipswich along the A14. Unfortunately there are some low bridges on the A14, so they all get diverted down our High Street. Every few weeks I'm trying to drive westwards, only to encounter this coming eastwards!
http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4061/4437122645_fca8a6bcdb_z.jpg
It's absolute chaos!

[seadogg]

The mention of the A14 shouldn't be allowed near bedtime Chris.

[marval]

We are not posh, but Milton Keynes like to think it is. It insists it is called a city, even though it isn't.

[netibiza]

I thought a city owned a catedral, Ibiza is a city but calls itself a town.

[DTCwordfan]

or a university, nettie - though having either is not guaranteed now

[marval]

Ours is not a cathedral, it is large but called The Church of Christ The Cornerstone.

[Buenchico]

Netibiza:
In the UK, a city MUST have a Royal Charter. If it doesn't, it's not a city

So, for example, London CONTAINS two cities (the City of London, which is mainly just the financial area, and the City of Westminster) but it's NOT a city in its own right.

Bury St Edmunds has a cathedral but it's not a city, whereas Brighton doesn't have a cathedral but (through its Royal Charter) it is a city.

Other countries may have their own rules or it might just simply accepted that big conurbations are cities, while smaller ones are towns.

[DTCwordfan]

Around here, the sheep wear red shoes and a chainsaw is aka vibrator - and there are loads of rabbits.

Pure entertainment all the way in the sticks.

[cupid04]

No-one drops their aitches!

[weecalf]

Our place has Toys or We