View Full Version : northerner trapped in a southerner???!!
Wideboy
14-06-09, 07:32 PM
thats right!!! could i be??!! :confused: :eek:
everytime i come back down from being north way i dislike the south more, yeah ok weather might be nicer down here but up there most people are more friendly, more places to go and althought its been said the roads down here are better, i think opposite
i also seem to get along better with people up there including strangers that are just bumped into (no offence to S&W lot, you guys lovely :love:)
that just sounds so wrong :smt107
:-( you dont love us anymore?
It all depends on what you want from an area, I prefer it down here over Nottingham. But i do like visiting and some of the roads are cracking, i wouldn't want to live there again though. Too much hussle and bussle and theres alot more traffic aswell and alot more traffic police. My area of the south west seems so much more relaxed than up in the midlands, yes places arn't as accessible without major effort to get to them but thats the only major downside i can think of!!! You'll have to join me for a ride some time Wideboy, didn't get chance to introduce myself properly the other day I was abit wet and miserable!!! :-D
fizzwheel
14-06-09, 07:48 PM
You might like the North better, but theres an awful lot of your beer sat in my garage which IMHO balances things out nicely..
Well it does for me anyway !!!
I'm a London lad southerner (born in Woolwich) turned midlander.
I don't want to go back to London to live. But one day we'll return to Cornwall - we lived there in between times for 7 very happy years:D
Wideboy
14-06-09, 08:07 PM
........
its not so much being in a town that does it, I've had a rural/yokel sort of up bringing as that's my mums side and i live on the outskirts of town
You might like the North better, but theres an awful lot of your beer sat in my garage which IMHO balances things out nicely..
oh yeah :smt067 i marked the cans BTW so i know if you've tried to syphon some out with a pin hole!
I'm a London lad southerner (born in Woolwich) turned midlander.
I don't want to go back to London to live. But one day we'll return to Cornwall - we lived there in between times for 7 very happy years:D
my dad came down to the south coast (poole at first i think) from Dagenham and I've been up to his old house and old haunts a few times, last time being in feb and it was a right crap whole
duno just seem to fit better with northerners, is it the cheeky accent that's makes me fit in better oop thar?
you have just forgotten how miserable the weather is up north.
That's odd. For some reason I really want to go to the west country. The further down that way I go the more I like it.
lukemillar
14-06-09, 09:12 PM
I thought this was going to be a thread about you coming out of the closet ;)
I thought this was going to be a thread about you coming out of the closet ;)
ha ha ha ha
tigersaw
14-06-09, 09:21 PM
I'm originally a northerner - feel instantly at home when I go to visit, but I could never live there either, I keep getting souther and wester each time I move
lukemillar
14-06-09, 09:23 PM
I'm originally a northerner - feel instantly at home when I go to visit, but I could never live there either, I keep getting souther and wester each time I move
Me too. Born in Horsham, UK... now in NZ!
Apart from Antartica, I don't think I could get any more south.
Wideboy
14-06-09, 09:26 PM
so basically you lot reckon im nuts? :p
Dicky Ticker
14-06-09, 09:48 PM
Easy answer----------------Move up North if it is what you want
you have just forgotten how miserable the weather is up north.
hell yeah god it can rain up there - i've ben down here 3 years now i miss my family and friends but i love my life down here
madness
15-06-09, 06:51 AM
I don't think it matters where you live, everywhere has good and bad points.
I take it you've only spent short periods up north? The reason you like it so much could be something to do with the 'holiday feeling' that you get when away from home for a while.
SoulKiss
15-06-09, 07:28 AM
that just sounds so wrong :smt107
I know what you mean - I was expecting some tale of woe involving Widey, some vaseline and a misplaced tube of superglue.....
I'm originally from Fareham, Hampshire.
I miss it to some extent but dont think I would want to move back down south.
The weather on the whole is no different until you get up to manchester (North).....and the roads do not even compare.
timwilky
15-06-09, 07:42 AM
Look you lot of southern pansies, the weather up here is glorious I am sweating like a paedophile in mothercare and it is not yet 9.00am. We need air conditioning up here.
The roads are wonderful. long, twisty and quiet because all the arses have sodded off down south.
Me I am not a northerner. I am a Lancastrian and proud of it.
You can always spot a tyke (wooly woofta from wrong side of the Pennines) by his deep pockets and short arms. But between us we can hold a scrap for 30 years and a grudge for 500. So don't knock us northerners or our weather
Dave20046
15-06-09, 07:56 AM
so basically you lot reckon im nuts? :p
Nah I think it's a fair comment, the more southerners that realise that us northerners are superior the better :smt045
It is true (aside from the scum and yorkiechris:p) us northerners are generally just more friendly etc. And the roads (especially when you're following deejay) are awesome.
WP - Only thing to do IMO is give it a go. Nothing ventured nothing gained....
So don't knock us northerners or our weather
After 30+ years leaving in Scotland Im entitled to slate the weather.
But as for the biking roads, there are just not any down here and if there are any, its like a car park (hot car park granted)
timwilky
15-06-09, 09:05 AM
After 30+ years leaving in Scotland Im entitled to slate the weather.
But as for the biking roads, there are just not any down here and if there are any, its like a car park (hot car park granted)
Alas Hazel your opinion does not count as you are not a true Northerner in the English meaning of the term, but an immigrant from a land further north of our country, whose weather is designed to favour its indigenous population. AKA the midge. ;)
Alas Hazel your opinion does not count...
Not something i'd ever dare say to Kitkat. Brave man Tim :notworthy:
Alas Hazel your opinion does not count as you are not a true Northerner in the English meaning of the term, but an immigrant from a land further north of our country, whose weather is designed to favour its indigenous population. AKA the midge. ;)
my opinion is the only true word Tim - this is true as I am a woman and scottish - therefore the only word you should ever listen to :smt059
Not something i'd ever dare say to Kitkat. Brave man Tim :notworthy:
yeah, you should be scared boy ;)
Graciepants
15-06-09, 11:42 AM
whose weather is designed to favour its indigenous population. AKA the midge. ;)
hahaha!!
i dunno WP - it was beautiful weather when you came to visit us sheffielders (and the welsh woman), and im guessing it was quite nice in bolton too. now its flooding (shef does that a lot) and thundering and im worried the lights are gonna go out again 8-[
davepreston
15-06-09, 12:01 PM
as someone from a better country all together and haveing live in all corners of this fair island i must say i pefer the north as stated the people up here seem in genral to be a bit friendlier, the roads are better and as for weather it doesnt really differ to a huge degree. the biggest differance i have seen is (and this is just mho ) is up north people work to live (eg their job is just to finace their social time) down south they are far more job oriantated (career first) thats why i chose to settle in preston instead of one of the other places in england i lived before.
so in ref to the op your not mad and it may be worth a punt for a few months to see if it is just that holiday feeling
...as I am a woman...
are you totally sure? there appears to have been some forum doubt on this matter lately :smt043:smt019
Wideboy
15-06-09, 04:01 PM
I am sweating like a paedophile in mothercare
:smt043
i duno maybe im just bored of it down here, will have served my time in 3 weeks so maybe i can go on a jolly :-k
plowsie
15-06-09, 04:09 PM
I prefer Cornwall (south) and oop North a lot more than in the middle where I am. I will move to either when I am old enough :)
I was born in Dover, grew up in Harlow and then moved around a bit (Navy, Married - that sort of stuff) and in my travels lived in Colchester and London amongst others. I liked Colchester, very friendly street - always someone to chat to over the garden fence with a tinny in hand :)
My friend has moved to Huddersfield and really rates it up there, personally I'd like to live further to the South and West rather than North, but as said before all places have pluses and minuses
Its because i'm t'up north and you love me.
johnnyrod
16-06-09, 09:20 AM
I've moved around a lot, and I still prefer the north. The west coast does rain a lot but the east is drier if a little cooler. What you don't have is a milion people all living in the same place, driving on the same pothole-infested roads, and getting ripped off for over £2 a pint. What you do have is people who are a lot friendlier if not so open-minded (though the time I spent in Southampton I've never met such a bunch of bigots), beautiful countryside although things are further apart longer evenings in the summer, less hay fever, fewer jobs and generally economic strength, public services that work and aren't stupidly overstretched, better beer (in general). There are only two things that would make me move south again, one is that I have lots of friends down there, the other is if I've exhausted my career opporunities. South west, nice enough but can be the classic yokels at times, London, forget it, I'm not going back there for anything!
I'd love to go to Scotland but I'm not sure I could lump the weather. It's like the north but amplified.
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