Southerners vs Northerners (how much, rooftop, living in)
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Do you notice any generalities you could use to describe the differences between Southern English and Northern English people? Let's say the 'South' is anywhere below the line denoting the 'bath-trap' split (roughly from Cheshire, just south of Birmingham, Northamptonshire/just south of Leicester to the Wash). Apart from accent, how do the two differ culturally? For example would you say Southerners are on the whole more reserved, as a generalisation?
No i'd say the opposite to a certain extent, I'd say people from the South East (not the whole of the south) are the least reserved in the UK. Why do you ask?
seriously though the list is endless.. its like saying compare people of New York to those in New Orleans...... or maybe you already have said that ?? I didn't check.
Southerners give little thought to Northerners and Northerners seem to resent Southerners. Northerners think themselves "salt of the earth" and far more friendly than people in the South which is a complete myth. The "North" seems to engender "professional" Northerners who think there is nothing above being Northerner and will bore you silly with how great it is up North every second of the day.
Northerners love to think they are tougher, friendlier, more honest, nicer than anyone in the South.
You meet so many people in the South from the North who will spend their lives telling you how much better it is up North and yet do not move back even those who can get jobs there.
Hubby is from Yorkshire, and he loathes the professional Yorkshiremen . And Professional Scouses ( which there are so many of) or Geordies. We get fed up being told about the delights of "Up North" when we don't think any conversation must include the joys of living in the South....
I have never once heard someone from Oxfordshire or Gloucestershire boring you rigid about the great wonders of their area. They don't feel they have to shout from the rooftops like so many Northerners. I do think Northerners are brasher and louder than their Southern Counterparts and I have yet to find a unique "heart of Gold" specific to Northerners either. There are nice people everywhere in Britain even London....
I also deeply resent the reverse snobbism which seems to exist towards the "posh" Southerners. It bugs the hell out of me that because you live in Oxfordshire or speak "posh" you are somehow an inferior brand of Englishman.
The North has such much scenic beauty, some wonderful industrial and historic heritage but it definitely has a chip on its shoulders and it is so off putting.
I think the bravado and act of toughness is due to an inferiority complex but I shall now be shot down in flames for daring to voice this no doubt.
I always dread meeting Northerners because I know at some point the same tediosu conversation will occur, over and over, and over again. How great the North and Northerners are and how awful and posh the Southerners are. The record never changes. 23 years in the UK and I am still waiting for a new tune.
Generally speaking walking the streets, in shops, cafes, bars etc people in Newcastle, Leeds, Liverpool, Carlisle and Blackpool seemed more friendly than in London or Bath, obviously people can't speak for all the people, towns and cities of the north and south though, that's just my experience.
Most people down south seem 'northerners' anyway. Population of the south has increased a lot in the last 30-40 years, population up north stagnant or falling. Over half the people i know or have worked with were either bought up in the North or parents from the North.
Northerners seem to like it when you can guess where they are from though. One recently seemed impressed I called him a smoggie instead of a geordie. I think that geordie shore rubbish has made many geordies ashamed to be geordies!
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