North / South divide - your view

Pfft, all this talk of your townie city folk rubbish.

The south is mostly flat and boring. We have the Lake District, Pennines, Forest of Bowland and North York Moors.

I live semi rurally, but I am never more than an hour from amazing countryside or a city. Best of both worlds. I couldn't live down south or a really built up area. Although you southerners are reuining the place I grew up with cardboard hosing that's only affordable to upper middle class *****s who want to come live in the countryside. Shame really.

I think I'll sod off to one of the Scottish isles one day.
 
It's fairly fashionable to blame someone else these days which is fairly sad.

Agree on the countryside though, there are lovely spots everywhere in this country including the north.
 
CapitalOne said:
It's fairly fashionable to blame someone else these days which is fairly sad.
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Well, that's true. It's the council and local land owners selling off the ability to do so that's the problem. It's not being sold off to companies that are invested in the area sadly but it does create work for some local trades.

My village was partly under water on boxing day and some of the new developments are in areas that were very well flooded! Crazy really.
 
Everyone loves us when we go on holiday, we constantly get told how down to Earth we are compared to people from down South. With that said I have plenty of friends from down South who I get on with great. The North just lacks the investment, it's sad really. Maybe if the Government was located outside London or rotated around a bit they'd see the difference in infrastructure. The train I get to Leeds which is the Sheffield-Leeds train is older than I am, and I'm nearly 30.
 
I think it still exists...

I heard someone call a northern worker a barmcake cake!

I moved to London when I was 4 and have lived North South East And West...I used to have a cockney accent !
 
Anything north of Gloucester is up north. Wouldn't catch me up there, too grim :p

And yes, I am most definitely one of those "soft, shandy drinking *****s".
 
Zefan;30500859 said:
Anything north of Gloucester is up north. Wouldn't catch me up there, too grim :p

And yes, I am most definitely one of those "soft, shandy drinking *****s".
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I saw your Post by the way in my gravel drive thread...:(
 
Freddie1980 said:
I've recently moved to Billericay but Chelmsford is imo the best town/city to live in Essex, nice parks, theaters, lots of shops and a couple of decent restaurants and of the best grammar schools in the country. It's a place that's on the up and up and is very popular with young families. It lacks some of charm and character you find in places like Colchester as most of Chelmsford is fairly new and like most places has issues with traffic control during rush the rush hours and housing prices have shot up a lot in recent years.
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It was much better 5 years ago..........;)
 
Zefan said:
Anything north of Gloucester is up north. Wouldn't catch me up there, too grim :p

And yes, I am most definitely one of those "soft, shandy drinking *****s".
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Your north of the M4 so I'm afraid you are northern to me :p
 
I live in Reading but on Friday I went up to Warrington to collect a (nearly) new car.

It was strange as the whole place seemed deserted. At one point i was in the town centre and on a cross roads. There was NO cars or people on any of the four roads I could see.

I felt like I was in one of those disaster movies.

It was about 1130pm on a Friday btw
 
I gave up the climate of South Africa to move to the UK, no way in hell I will choose to live in the least temperate part of an already not very temperate country :p
 
It has been shown upteen times tht the South gets a disproportionate amount from Govt. There was even a report that the Lottery grants etc were biased towards the South.
 
Dup said:
Pfft, all this talk of your townie city folk rubbish.

The south is mostly flat and boring. We have the Lake District, Pennines, Forest of Bowland and North York Moors.

I live semi rurally, but I am never more than an hour from amazing countryside or a city. Best of both worlds. I couldn't live down south or a really built up area. Although you southerners are reuining the place I grew up with cardboard hosing that's only affordable to upper middle class *****s who want to come live in the countryside. Shame really.

I think I'll sod off to one of the Scottish isles one day.
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Sliver said:
Yeah I think you should. Be around people who think like you might make you feel better.:cool:
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Like the folk that live on the Scottish isles will want people from the mainland taking over.
 
Dated 2 Northern girls and on the back of that I'll say the women are much better up there. :p

Much more easy going and approachable than darn sarf!
 
redrabbit29 said:
Southerner here... as previously stated - Reading till I die. But yea I do think London is completely misunderstood.

I often say... "I love London - until I have to go there". I've worked out that that is because generally you travel into central London. That is a very difficuklt place to enjoy at times, unless you're really in the mood or it's a novelty

Living so close - 25 mins by train, I go into London quite regularly and the novelty has well and truely worn off.

But proper London living, is in a lovely backstreet just, like near Wandsworth, Richmond, maybe Barnes, Angel, etc... it's proper London living. People don't see that. There's proper towns within the "london" area. That is why people love it.
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It's that type of London that I find the worst. Dirty streets, lemmings that walk out in front of cars constantly. Worse traffic than the likes of Westminster, and London. A lot of ex-LEA looking slums, and a lot more dodgy characters.
 
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