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Re post of a rant I posted on the bath_uk journal. This is something I feel quite strongly about, hence the re post.


Bath is NOT posh. No, no, no! Every time I see an article like this I want to weep.

Bath is pretty. Yes. Bath has groups like the Abbey Residents Association. Yes. But this does not make it posh. Groups like the ARA make up a tiny fraction of Bath's total population, which like most cities has a mix of all sorts making it up.

Is Twerton posh? Is Snow's Hill posh? Is the Lower Bristol Road posh? Jeeze, how can anyone look at Southgate and say Bath's posh?

OK, fabulous Georgian architecture, but what a lot of people don't know, or forget, is that quite often it's a front. There are dingy council flats in the Circus, and quite a few of those gorgeous Georgian house have been turned into squalid flats.

Please don't deny the existence of 90% of what makes Bath, Bath.


This is the part of the original post I was objecting to. (With apologies to Elmyra)

>Being what Bath is - a posh tourist town which also hosts two universities (the University of >Bath and Bath Spa University College), the population is split roughly 50:50 (okay, that may be >a slight exaggeration) into posh people and students. Which of course means that there have >to be at least *some* entertainment opportunities. Plus, it's close enough to both Bristol and >London so that you can escape for a while should you get bored.

Okay, rant over.

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