Why are Northeners so much nicer?

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I'm from The south east, 40 mins away from London by train.

I've come up to Liverpool to see an old friend and what?! It's like a different culture. People are so lovely to us?

My child has a disability and people have been brilliant. I know I'm generalising but literally, guarantee a hard look from lots of people when out in my own area back home

People here are just so.. personal? Very friendly and kind.

Why aren't people in the South East like this? Mostly they aren't anyway! Mostly just keep themselves to themselves etc And I'm not even talking about London

My mum lives in Billericay and people there are vile.

Thank you ✌️

Oooh we haven't had a goady North/South thread for ages.

What next? Using accessible toilets? Parent and child parking?

Not sure. I'm from NW England. Now live in East Anglia. People are so unfriendly here. But I've lived near the south coast and SW and people were lovely there. It's a SE thing.

I live in the SE and people are generally very friendly where I am. Lots of stopping and chatting to strangers in the street!

I don't think this is true - the rudest people I've ever met were from Yorkshire. And it wasn't a one off experience.
I do think that people in London are busy and stressed and being on a crowded tube doesn't do much to improve one's mood - if people in the north swapped places, you'd probably find they were much the same!
Also, being reserved and not overly chatty isn't a character flaw.

It's because the chips are better up here. Southerners get small portions of kebab shop chips and it makes them really uptight.

I don't think they are nicer. Maybe more open to openly extroverted but I don't think any nicer. I think people from proper North like Newcastle can be quite dry, and mancunions often think they are a Gallagher. I think it's just the stereotype of the jolly northern woman saying things like pet and duck.

The only place I've genuinely found people to be quite unfriendly was parts of Essex/Hertfordshire. Just the men can be total wankers, I found it really tiresome to work there because the people can be hard work

I live in Norfolk right now and find people are almost too friendly and trusting, very chatty. But I grew up in Kent and everyone would say hello, I found my home town very friendly just not quite so extroverted as maybe liverpool. Again some places like London/Cambridge/Brighton people can be more reserved but just as nice.

It's just the culture in Manchester. It's hard to describe but it's just the way we were raised.

Im surprised at that. I was looking at some pjs in Croydon primark yesterday and so was another woman and we spoke about them. Today I was on a train to Victoria and I made a comment about the people opposite me's dog and they both made friendly comments back.

Chorley people are pretty miserable and insular. Not sure what happened to them.

This is a bit random @Shitfather , what's this about?

I went for my covid booster and flu jab. There was a little delay so those of us in the queue stood chatting and laughing when suddenly an elderly woman exclaimed 'I've never been in such a good queue before'.
'She's why I love Glasgow' a man
said.
And we all knew what he meant.

@TiredButAlive where are you in EA? I am in West Norfolk... people are pretty friendly on the whole here. We are in a small town. I found Norwich friendly too.

My relatives in various northern towns and cities are some of the most unfriendly, miserable feckers you'd ever come across. Where I live in South East London is super friendly.

I’m from London originally, but moved north a good few years ago. I think London has changed in that it’s now so multicultural so you have different cultures and languages which makes for a very mixed bunch of people who just don’t interact with each other. Some cultures are naturally friendly, and others not so much. When i first moved to yorkshire it really was like a breath of fresh air. When I go back to London these days to visit family or friends I just find a coldness and disinterest generally, and it makes me sad.

I've found the stereotype that northerners are more friendly to be very very true. I've moved to Northumberland from SE and it's like coming home (despite never living here before). I've made loads of friends within a few years - proper friends. I wonder if people give less of a shit about class / what school their kids goes to / what car they drive etc etc. I love it. Wouldn't live anywhere else.

My Hampshire born husband has said this about Liverpool when we go up to visit my parents :) It does make me proud to be northern.

I find people in London to keep to themselves a little more but I don't think they're unfriendly. I remember when I first moved down there and rode the tube with my friend. I asked him why people weren't talking. Seven years on I was just like them, another busy adopted Londoner with places to go and mumbling about rude tourists blocking escalators 😂

We live in Sussex now and people are more willing to strike up a conversation here.

Im from the south east and i find people in the north west nowhere near as friendly as people in the north east!

Heck no they aren't! I found Northerners to be a lot more racist.

Northerners are cliquey,moaning people.

Southerner living in Yorkshire. I much prefer the southern hostility, at least you know what you're getting. Northerners are far more bitchy.

I find southerners far friendlier to everyone - open to strangers.

IME northerners tend to be friendly to their own, and suspicious of everyone else.

The rudest person I have ever met was from Yorkshire. Ironically in a diatribe (aimed at me while I gave him a cup of tea I had made for him) about how rude southerners are.

There is definitely a difference in the friendliness (or otherwise) of drivers. Having to drive from just north of London to Manchester and back again in one day drew my attention to this phenomenon. Drivers in the south will cut you up and try to run you off the road as soon as look at you. It is entirely different the further north you go. Far more calm.

chelle0

Interesting. Ive always found it to be the other way around. Northern people will call a spade a spade but I prefer that to two faced behaviour.

I moved from Essex living, city working to Yorkshire.

On the surface people were much more friendly, a random hello, smiling in the shops etc.

But noone actually wanted to socialise 121 and make real friends with newcomers. It was rather lonely.