The North/South Divide - differences?
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I thought it might be fun to start a thread and examine if there really are that many differences between the North/South and the way we live?
I guess it's just a case of copy paste and replace the answers with your own? Maybe add some new questions too?
Where you live: Liverpool
What you call your mother: Mam
What you call your father: Dad
A decent house in your city (nice area) would cost: £250K
Takeaway chips might come with: Gravy or Ketchup
Current fashion for girl's hair: Wavy, brown, loose and long
Favourite part of a Sunday dinner: Yorkshire pudding
I'd be interested to see if there really is a North/South divide.
I guess it's just a case of copy paste and replace the answers with your own? Maybe add some new questions too?
Where you live: Liverpool
What you call your mother: Mam
What you call your father: Dad
A decent house in your city (nice area) would cost: £250K
Takeaway chips might come with: Gravy or Ketchup
Current fashion for girl's hair: Wavy, brown, loose and long
Favourite part of a Sunday dinner: Yorkshire pudding
I'd be interested to see if there really is a North/South divide.
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Not all of us have 6000+ posts under our belt. Can you point me to the thread where this was done before? I'll gladly read it and take part?
Maybe Digital spy needs an 'infants' section, for those of us who weren't around when the 'juniors' learned their stuff?
South - full of people sneering with glee at the pain in the North.
Hmmmmnnn...I'm in the north, but I don't feel the least bit victimised by the Tory government or their "Lib Dem puppets".
Sorry.
I actually welcome the change. It's refreshing.
I'm from the North, the people in the South would do well to remember they have us Northerners, we've only got them.:D
What you call your mother: Mum
What you call your father: Dad
A decent house in your city (nice area) would cost: £250/300K
Takeaway chips might come with: Salt n vinegar
Current fashion for girl's hair: spiral hair extentions
Favourite part of a Sunday dinner: Brussell sprouts
Nope, not me.
The Conservatives are mostly only for the well off. Not many up here likes them.
I called my dad - fatha
House prices are about £50-£80,000 for the average house.
Lasses hair's normally straightened with hair straighteners.
That's it.
Huh? If the Conservatives are mostly only for the well off, then how come my brother got to go to a private grammar school (scholarship) and then go on to get a free university education under them in the 80's despite the fact he came from a single parent family on benefits?
I really can't understand that one at all.
That's not the case in the North East. They/she was an absolute sod to us back then.
LOL. You're talking to a Geordie man. I went to school in Durham, lived in Kelloe and lived in Gateshead/Newcastle too up until the age of 19 when I left the UK for a couple of years.
Things weren't so bad. Like I said...my brother was able to acheive stuff that kids from those estates wouldn't get funded for nowadays.
South: Historically a sh*thole, too much money about, superiority complex, expensive to live, high wages, Metrosexuals, Pimms, Essex girls, Chav's, Royal Family, Brighton Beach, likely to drive a Merc.
I never knew that!
I'm guessing that your answer for takeaway chips would be: wrapped in pastry with jam in the corner?
Then I'm puzzled by your comments. Conservatives are not that liked up here for the havoc they wreaked back then ..... which is why they didn't stand a chance up here when the elections came.
South - Full of people who spent 13 years being screwed over by the Labour government
North - Full of people rubbing their hands together about the South getting screwed over
I think that says more about the people who live up here than the Tories.
Whatever. They can't be trusted as far as the less well off go.
There is large part of this country known as "The Midlands". Here we look upon the North as any place above Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire/Staffs.and the South as anywhere below Northamptonshire/Warwickshire/Worcestershire. Me ?....I'm very happily stuck in the middle. Not a dividing line thank you.
I guess I've always tried to think for myself.
I'm proud of my roots and I love the North-east, but just as I didn't walk around in Kappa simply because everyone else was doing so, I also didn't make my political judgements based on what a few others on the estate were saying. Instead, I judged the people who were doleing out the sentiment and formed my opinions from there.
I don't have anything against the South.
I'm still not seeing why you say this? Can you give us a personal example of exactly how the government put up a brick wall around the wonderful area that is Consett?
As for the political divide, you only have to look at a map of how the country voted in 2010 to see it's urban/rural not north/south.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2010UKElectionMap.svg
I made my decisions based on that whenever they were in power, our businesses started to suffer ..... like they're starting to again.