When I was a nipper, Surbiton was a nice place to be. The locals were all friendly, buying stuff was easy, and I liked the area very much. Yes, that was then of course. Now all I want to do is get away from it.
There are a number of housing estates in nearby Kingston, and thanks to the Oystercard, the Chavs can roam free enjoying Tolworth Broadway and Surbiton’s Victoria Road. The normal chav facilities can be found in Surbiton, Macdonalds, KFC, a former Poundshop which made the best decision of its life to call itself the £1+ Shop, but not much else. So a main day for the chavs is going to"Maccy D’s" and then to KFC before the usual fag-cadging. There are enough parks around to keep any chav satisfied from slapping someone or to keep a chavette waiting for month number 9. However a general precaution(toddler or small dog) will scare them silly.
Then there’s Tolworth, which seems to be in my opinion even worse. There’s no MacDonalds, in fact there are barely any fast food chains, so the chavs will make do with a Pizza or a Kebab before going to their "Hangout", a vast series of underpasses above the A3. This provides a great area for dangling pebbles(Chavs are too scared to use bricks of course) above the passing cars, as well as also trying to mug you in the underpasses.
Bar the bowling alley, there is little unchavvy about Tolworth, except there are no Burberry stores nearby. Think you’re in trouble? Never ye mind, you can spot a chav here a mile off. The traditional etiquette here is blindig whiter-than-white clothing all year round, so if you are anywhere around London, you will spot a chav from these areas instantaneously. Rotten eggs and bricks for these moments are also cheap. Get your hands on some now!
Now you know why the theme parks keep their prices up around these areas, and why the 99p stores are becoming less and less frequent. Now you should be able to figure out why there won’t be any large Tesco currently. Perhaps sometime the area will be completely cleaned out. But hopefully then I will be living elsewhere. Not Essex.
Is the comment about the football playing ‘chavs’ really a sign of Surbiton getting worse or just you getting uptight and suffering a midlife crisis? Is your mistrust just of real scum or just of anyone under 20?
many people who live in tolworth claim to live in surbiton and this is where the problem starts. surbiton itself is not so bad, some nice leafy parts, pleasant river location and some posh and expensive (beyond chav pockets) houses on the doorstep of kingston. not to mention artistic 30s station. tolworth on the other hand is a craphole.
if you want to go chav spotting then hop on the tram between mitcham and croydon. here you will see real scum that doesnt merit a place in this universe.
Yes Surbiton has fallen from grace, years back I lived there and it was a nice place to get into London to work hard, needless to say the station does not attract many chavs, they might get sucked into real work or a responsible lifestyle!
I had the misfortune one day in recent times to be over in Surbiton, walking through the park I came across a herd of scummy chavs making a noise and just being a complete pain in the ass. Some of them were trying to play football, but failing and indeed only West Ham these days look worse. Anyhow with regret I had to walk close to the main group, where upon Chavvie football boy decided to boot his ball next to me, the usual lets try to frighten to old chap. I carried on walking, having served in the army its hard to repress the desire to break a few bones of these people, but one must since the common use of camera phones by scum like this mob.
Anyhow football chav does some chavvie dance to impress his rabble followers and then shouts to me he would be going professional soon, oh yeah very soon. At that stage I had to laugh, loudly, this scumbag dressed in the usual low life rags that pass for impressive with the dim witted of our society was never going anywhere sporting, the jerky movements, the constant sniffing nose, oh the nose with the spetum showing signs of class A drug abuse, the spotting face and the pale under nurished KFC diet look told me 2012 was going to be safe from this chav taking part.
He got a little upset that I didn’t by into his comparrison with Pele, I’m sure readers will understand why not, but he really was a complete stranger to basic GCSE’s so I told him perhaps when you clean yourself up and learn to eat vegetables rather than hang out with them you will get a shot at being a boot cleaner at Old Kingstonians………………..you will love it, he then shouted where the f**k is that?
Just goes to show the waft of cheap after shave and KFC has not blown down from the Cambridge Estate to Surbiton parks yet so this lot cannot join up and breed, so next time you smell Thames Water’s sewerage plant by Archdale Place, thank the Lord, because without it we would be overrun with chav scum!
Surbiton, it’s no longer the good life!
A series of underpasses above the A3???????????
Idiot
No Einstein, he is not an idiot,
There is this weird hybrid crossing that is also the main roundabout and a crossing of the A3
Take a look (hopes this works)
http://www.kingston.gov.uk/aerial_shot_tolworth.jpg
you get to the middle via subways, then over a bridge, then out through a subway the other side.
Under all that is the A3!
I’m not sure when it was built but I’m sure drugs were in the system of everyone who thought it was a good idea at the time.
Yep, Tolworth and Chessington have always been the skrag end of Kingston