Is Kent really that bad?

Kent is the eleventh biggest county in the UK (with a 1.6 million population), a popular Surrey-based British Tiktokker (Philc84) has constantly referred to it scathingly as a running joke (Surrey-Kent rivalry?), but is Kent really that bad?

It's hardly the most deprived overall, is it? It's got quite a lot going for it I think, nice coastal areas and towns with good connections.

And funnily somehow Kent didn't have a proper subreddit for meetups, r/KentSocialClub was very recently started to help with that.

Surrey is the second wealthiest area in the UK after London, boasting 59,800 HNWIs, while Kent and Hertfordshire are in fourth and fifth place with 29,500 and 28,200 wealthy inhabitants each.