I live in Caterham. I ahve my whole life.
The Chavs are EVERYWHERE. Down my road, next door, sitting in the car park of Tesco, infesting the Skate Park no less. At 2 in the morning, the high-pitched squeal of a moped can be heard screeching it’s way through the town at 20mph. They walk around in hordes of horribly unflatteringly ugly clothes that gives you a good impression of their attitudes to life – “don’t care, as long as I look my ‘mates’ and spent £300 on a fake gold chain”.
Chav culture – one example, a chav on his pedal bike riding on the pavement. My friends were standing on the pavement, waiting for another to come out the newsagent. This chav had the nerve to screech to a halt next to one of my friends and demands that he moves out the way. Firstly, he’s on a bike that should be on the ROAD, secondly he didn’t even ask nicely. He thinks it’s funny to start on my friend. Wisely, we start to leave, but this chav isn’t having any of it. We go past a pub as this chav is effing and blinding at the top of his voice. To make things worse, about 40 odd chavs make their way out the pub and start to follow him. Some older people try and calm this guy down,a nd tell him to abck off, but this chav wants a fight. We go a couple of roads, and he’s still going. Just as we near our friend’s house, the chav starts coming in for a proper fight. Typical chav culture, the odd 40 following get out their camera phones. My friend runs like the wind, the chavs eventually leave bored.
Caterham – the s**thole. Come at your own risk!
I lived in Caterham for many years i was born there.. I now have moved away and find it really hard to go back there to visit friends… Its soo chavy always has been full of thick scuzzy tatooed scumbags wanting fights or just drinking shouting, drugs or other such thing in the numerous rough pubs through out Caterham is a s**t hole even though it is Surrey it is more like Peckham everyday.. I would never move back there although caterham valley used to be the roughest now i think it has changed turns I now believe Caterham on the hill is the roughest with its dull bleak Grey atmosphere… Be warned for your teenage kids in this dump of a town…
I moved to Caterham 12 months ago and yet to see these chavs you talk about, I live in Caterham in the Valley and have returned from Central London on the last train back, it has been very quiet and I felt very safe every time walking back home.
No there right caterham is a s**t hole with way to many scum bags, it’s not just caterham it is the surrounding places to I live in godstone and oh boy what a bunch of scum that comes from there I will post a full story ASAP
Couple in our 40′s, we moved to Caterham 5 years ago running away from a very bad area in SE London, thinking that Caterham was a nice little village still within zone 6. Not so nice, but acceptable. What at first looked like a decent place, with some charming spots and educated people, soon turned into a place full of shirt-less young guys full of tattooes and shaved heads, wearing completely stupid clothes when used outside a gym, or silly trousers that constantly allow the ugly vision of their underwear, which I see as quite a put-off and a clownish and uncomfortable fashion that evidently youngsters of all backgrounds have adopted for some stupid aesthetic reason that totally evades me. Get a 18 years old and give him a trouser for a 10 years old … I would laugh at them if I were not afraid that some of them would attack me, but still they are laughable for their stupidity in following ridiculous fashions, supposedly to make them special and different. HA! You are what you are inside, no need of an alternative uniform.
Also lots of silly teenager girls with gib bellies, 1-2 or even more children, who obviously were too drunk or too stupid to use a condom or taking a pill at the time, and who are now being maintained because of their stupidity at becoming pregnant at a young age without means to educate and support their kids. Evidently not responsible and mature enough to take care of their kids, but instead of giving the children to couples who find that they cannot have their own, these silly irresponsible youths get to keep their little kids, who will mostly turn in the kind of guys and girls that scare we all at the tender age of 5. Sick of maintaining these stupid people, we should simply take the kids away and try to give them to a committed family, but this not only happens in Caterham, it’s a nationwide problem.
Sterilisation scheme for young guys, with reversal at a later time when they are productive, please! (female sterilisation is much more expensive and difficult to revert, so let’s stick to pills and patches for them…). Freedom comes with responsibility and without us having to maintain parasites any longer… grandmas at 35, a good reason to be proud! If you don’t have the time, means and education, please do not have children!
All these people are quite evident since a couple of years ago. Our area is still okay, not too many stupid youngsters, mostly educated and not looking like they want to kill you if you hold their eyes. Caterham is also full of older people and quite a lot of pensioners, some decent, some as chav as the youngsters. Still a better place than where we were in London, and close to a fantastic countryside, which makes it worth the change.
ADVISE FOR ALL AREAS: check your area at different times and days before buying anything, and avoid buying anything without having a look at the neighbours! East Croydon is really bad, some spots of South Croydon okay, Purley has its good and bad, and really everywhere is like that in Surrey for commuters to London.
What are you on about, it’s got more OAP’s in it than chavs. This is surrey, not peckham.