I'm from Dorset, born and bred and although people do say things like 'love', 'Hun' and 'darling' its just something I've never done. I'm by no means posh but its just not something that's in my vocabulary. I kind of see it like calling someone a nickname or pet name in which case I think you have to be pretty close to them for it to be appropriate.
Living in such a nice place there are a lot of people from all over the country who move here (especially to retire) and I have a lot of clients from london, midlands and scotland and they do sometimes call me 'love' or 'darling' etc but its funny now I think of it I'd never say it back to them. My client base is lovely, since I set up 4 and a half years ago I've retained so many loyal clients, we have such a laugh and they are amazingly lovely ladies, but at the end of the day I'm their beauty therapist not their granddaughter, niece or friend.
I don't mind my clients calling me these friendly names but when I am in the clients shoes ie when I go to the hairdressers I don't really like them to be overly familiar to me, I find it a bit awkward but maybe that's just me.
Living in such a nice place there are a lot of people from all over the country who move here (especially to retire) and I have a lot of clients from london, midlands and scotland and they do sometimes call me 'love' or 'darling' etc but its funny now I think of it I'd never say it back to them. My client base is lovely, since I set up 4 and a half years ago I've retained so many loyal clients, we have such a laugh and they are amazingly lovely ladies, but at the end of the day I'm their beauty therapist not their granddaughter, niece or friend.
I don't mind my clients calling me these friendly names but when I am in the clients shoes ie when I go to the hairdressers I don't really like them to be overly familiar to me, I find it a bit awkward but maybe that's just me.