Northerners in the South, and Southerners in the North
Mark1974
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Have you moved north or south for whatever reason, and if so what are your reasons and how are you accepted?
As a Northerner do you like Southerners living up here, or as a Southerner do you welcome Northerners to your patch?
As a Northerner do you like Southerners living up here, or as a Southerner do you welcome Northerners to your patch?
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Curry sauce is worse:D
Cheese cake
Garlic and bread, what a liberty
Decent bloke to be fair just a shame he's a misery guts so can't tell if he's a WUM or really pissed off.
My reason for moving? To be with my OH. I like it in Cambridgeshire, I live on the outskirts in a rural part so it's nice and quiet and lots of fields and whatnot, so it feels like where I used to live (other than the fact it is flat. Derbyshire is very hilly). The only thing I bemoan are the prices down here - extortionate!
I've moved north, south, east and west. Once I moved WNW (got out of bed the wrong side), but that's a little secret between me and you.
But seriously. I've lived in Salford for three years, Pontypridd for 3 years, Devon for 21 years, but since the early 1990s I've been living in the south east (Hemel Hempstead, Welwyn Garden City and Luton). Also, I lived in Swindon for a year and a few months in Plymouth.
As for northern foreigners, they just have to mix in with the huge influx of other immigrants from the EU and elsewhere, plus we've got the Irish that have made Luton a second home. Put it this way, the IRA were never going to leave a bomb in Luton and now nor are the Muslim extremists. Every cloud and all that. Tongue in cheek mode off.
I've never had a problem with most people I've met IRL. There are only two types of people really. Good people and bad people. It doesn't really matter what creed/colour/nationality/race/religion they are really.
It's all perfectly fine as long as you can take a joke, and to the Mancs credit, they can. The North/South divide is light-hearted, and those that take it seriously are usually idiots. Can't really comment on Southerners, or those from elsewhere in the North.
The north has Chorley fm...coming in your ear every morning..
The scenes with Paul Le Roy sat at his turn tables at the far end of Rivington Services car park are choice viewing
Scots generally refer to people from the North of England as "North of England", and southern England as "South of England".
We have Southern (Scots), Northern (Scots), Islanders (from the Western Islands), Orcadians and Shetlanders - from the real north!
I worked in London and we used to go into London a lot. Neither of us are southerners (he is a yamyam) and we used to find that bar and restaurant staff always assumed we were just visiting London or there for a weekend break. This struck me as odd because London is full of people from all over the place but we were always seen as holidaymakers yet we both worked there.
Other things I found odd were:-
Chapatis costing over £1 from the Indian takeaway (50p here)
Chow mein being as dry as a bone (no gravy)
Chop suey in sweet and sour sauce (wrong!!)
Couldn't find a vanilla slice anywhere
Seeing a free table in a pub only to find it 'reserved' (unfortunately that has spread up here now)
Sausage 'roll' confusion
Not knowing how to ask for a bacon butty (I always ended up with something I didn't want)
People giving you dirty looks if you made eye contact (people tend to smile here so I used to smile and say 'hiya love!' when eye contact was made)
The only birds I saw were feral pigeons, starlings and the occasional sparrow
Public transport being quick and efficient (the oddest thing of all, but then it should be considering how much is spent per head in London compared to the rest of us)
I'm sure I could think of more but that'll do for now!
We also have an east-west divide, the boundary of which depends on (a) who you're speaking to or (b) where salt 'n' vinegar changes to salt 'n' sauce.
To Edinbuggers, the 'west' is anywhere further than the Gogar roundabout.
To Weegies, the east is anywhere east of the High Street, Cumbernauld is the edge of the world, and places like Edinburgh might as well be on the dark side of the moon.
Gogar, Weegies, Cumbernauld. I love Scottish names
I don't really know if I'm a northerner or a southerner. I love gravy with my chips and call alleyways 'ginnels' but don't say hello to strangers and prefer lager to beer.
The only two reasons for random strangers trying to talk to you in the south.
1) They're going to rob you and 2) They're a nutter
Not sure I'd fit in back home now but I'm not entirely assimilated here either. I still find a few of the 'ways' and sayings very odd;
. Going out for tea ( going to a restaurant in the evening ) That one literally makes me gag.
. Corned Beef Hash being called Tater Hash and being liquid like a soup. Hash is supposed to be dry and fried.
. A clothes horse is a 'maiden'. Why? Clothes horse is a much more accurate description.
.Nobody has a tumble dryer. How do they dry their clothes when it's raining but it's too warm to have radiators or fire on?
.Sweet things on Bonfire Night. No..sausages and jacket spuds, and that's it
Yes, I said that right - I've consistently found people much friendlier down south contrary to the commonly held myth.