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.

Ime, there are lovely people in both south and north, as well as not so nice people.

It's just a stereotype but one that seems acceptable to make. There are friendly people and miserable buggers everywhere. I live in the south and am demented by people talking to me in shops, lifts, parks etc.

So much cheaper up north; would love to move there but hearing the accent all the time would be a bit much for me!

I moved to East Anglia and have only encountered a couple of arseholes.

I don’t get these threads. It’s impossible to categorise while areas into good and bad.

Whole, not while.

Which particular accent is that, there’s quite a few different ones ‘oop north’ you know? 🙂

We have to make up for the shit weather somehow 😀

Personally this hasn’t been my experience. Quite the opposite in fact! I’ve lived in Leeds and Manchester, and London where I’ve been for the past decade. Northerners I found quite insular in their long-standing friendship groups and quite difficult to make meaningful connections. Manchester I found downright unwelcoming. Whereas in London I’ve made most if not all of my close adult friends, I’m pally with neighbours and find several of the areas I’ve lived to have a lovely sense of community. Bristol I found very friendly when I stayed with a friend there too.

I find Glasgow and Norfolk to be friendly places

I find Londoners incredibly friendly and genuine!

In my experience they’re not !

I think this is a faintly ridiculous thread. There's what, 300 miles between north and south. That will hardly generate huge differences between people.

I am originally from Yorkshire but have lived all over. Some people are friendly and like a chat, some are busy and want to get on with their day.

I wouldn’t say everyone is much friendlier up north. DH is from the North East and I get a lot of racist comments from members of the public whenever we go up and visit his family. I also get a lot of rude comments about my accent, as someone who grew up in the South I just sound different. Of course I know this is not the case for all areas but just my experience visiting the North East.

I grew up in Yorkshire. I travel all over for work. I spend a lot of time in London and Glasgow. My colleagues in Glasgow are the loveliest people I know. But I do find people in Yorkshire friendly and in London friendly.

I genuinely can’t say one area is friendlier on the whole. My experience is that most people are fairly decent. You get arseholes everywhere.

Northerners can be more openly chatty and community driven. But that might be my experience with my family. There are very local, and there is no-one new in that village. In London, where i lived, everyone was 'new' so ypu had to search for a community feel. However my mum is a scouser and was a complete bitch till she mellowed a bit with age (80).

It's nothing to do with social factors. Northerners are just fundamentally better people and have been since birth.

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Not true at all in my experience. I’ve lived in London for years and found it very friendly as a place to be. Obviously on a busy rush hour tube when everyone’s stressed they might not want to stop and chat. But I found it easy to make friends and just to get chatting Tom people. I’ve also lived in the Midlands and found it really lonely. Nobody talked to me and I found it impossible to make friends. After a year or two I reflected that despite being heavily involved in several community activities I’d not once been invited to anyone’s house for coffee or dinner. Or even out for a drink. That just wouldn’t have happened in London. I found it all very hard going.

The north: well, I was in a reasonably sized city in Yorkshire last week and couldn’t believe the rudeness. A checkout operator in a large supermarket shouted at me for standing in the wrong place (I wasn’t in anyone’s way) and before that when I asked about the location of an item the shop worker shrugged and walked off.

That's our sense of humour, we only insult people we like.

I’ve lived in the NW, SE, London, and Midlands.

Midlands people are the friendliest and warmest by far. NW possibly the chattiest with random strangers.

Lots of threads like this today…

I find northerners are more sympathetic to others, they have been shit on for years. I’m a northerner living in London, parts of London are great, the bit where tourists go, not so much.

I find those from the middle of the UK (Yorkshire I’m looking at you!) are exceptionally rude. If you are a new face or have a different accent you are going to feel super lonelyX

This thread is a series of meaningless generalisations.

The whole being so rude , its hilarious Yorkshire thing is so wierd.
Needing to knock everyone down, its collective poor self esteem.

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It amuses me to watch people happily take positive generalisations about themselves, but immediately take offence if someone pops up with a negative one.