Which state's landscape is the most flat, treeless, brown and uninspiring?

Which town/city dominated by an oil refinery is the worst smelling place you've been to?

Which of London's upmarket 'stockbroker belt' towns in Surrey lives up to the stereotype of being overwhelmingly upper middle-class, White, Anglo-Saxon (meaning native English and not a descendent of recent immigrants), Protestant and Tory voting. Please don't take offence, i'm not trying to marginalise any group. I'm simply planning a short story to write and I need a setting like this for one of the characters. I'm thinking of the kind of place where people generally send their kids to private schools, but not jet-set rich, I'm thinking more professional and managerial upper-middle-class. The kind of place that's home to Surgeons, Barristers, Senior Lecturers, Judges, high-level Civil Servants, Upeer management types in City firms, etc. Note: wealthy and comfortable but not super rich.