AIBU for wanting to move up north to find a real man

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I live in London and travel on the tube each day. Today I was sat next to a guy writing notes in a Winnie the Pooh diary, complete with Eeyore on the corner of each page. On the other side to me was a guy reading Twilight. Not only do I see grown men reading Harry Potter, there was one guy playing the "Little Girl App" on his iPad the other day. Really fed up with sitting next to men with Lady Gaga blasting out of their headphones...

All I want to know is, where are the real men at? AIBU for thinking you wouldn't get this up north.

Maybe not as openly....

Pmsl!!

I'm from up north but I got myself an American! Make of that what you will!

I'm a Northener and married an Italian

He thinks that the most defining thing about Northern men is that they go out in all weathers wearing t-shirts!

I married a Geordie. My mam warned me not to. How I wish I'd listened.

My DH was a northerner compared to me, and he does go out wearing just a t shirt in any weather!!! Lol x

Nice to hear about people getting to be people.

Look for a man eating a Yorkie bar?

see, real men wear t-shirts in the rain... London men huddle in doorways until the rain stops.

I moved up north to live with a partner.
I stayed up north and ditched the partner.
Unfortunately his idea of being a 'real' man was thinly veiled sexism and misogyny.

*disclaimer - I have seen men reading Harry potter on the bus here although they weren't wearing a coat even though it was freezing so I know they're not all that bad!

And there's me, wishing I could move back to London as I cannot bear the thought of another Geordie bloke!

They are ALL football loopy, think sports wear is acceptable outside of the gym and don't believe there are other countries *.

Celibate, I shall remain :(

• ok, so I might exaggerate a tad but they do talk funny

I don't mind the football thing and as for the whole gym thingtats have you been to a gym in London, the smell of aftershave wafting from the men's changing room nearly knocks you out. And they're all skinny and hog the treadmill.

ObviouslyOblivious has it spot on, look out for those yorkie bars

I'm a southerner, but my northern ex referred to all southerners (to him, anyone below Birmingham) as 'Southern puffs' (his word for poofs)
I'm engaged to an SP now though!

Real men wear a t shirt in the rain- does that not just make them stupid rather than manly?

I'm a Northerner and married a Londoner :)

Took me nine years of marriage to "accidentally lose" his denim jacket (circa 1979) though

The coat is the true sign of the north south divide for men & women. Come on northern people there is no shame in being warm!

SpiritOfTheSite - That's odd, my wife did the same thing! What's a nice Yorkshire lass like her doing marrying a nice American guy like me?

Yabu to try and find a real man in England

Yes, get yourself up North, I highly recommend them :o

My Teeside born DH has read all but one of the Harry Potter books, loves Winnie the Pooh and has long blonde hair. Not sure of his views on Lady Gaga as he rarely listens to any music more recent than the 70's.

It's a bye law that anything more than 12 minutes of sunshine - no matter what the actual temperature is - means men must wear shorts & tshirt up here. 20 minutes plus means vest & shorts.

May I recommend midlands men? If this thread is anything to go by, my West Mids DH is, er, somewhere in the middle....

Iklboo: In glasgow, any temperature over 15C means that it's time to go shirtless if my memory serves correctly. But only if you're incredibly weedy and pale.

We live in the NE. DH is southern and thinks he'll melt in the rain. He's always moaning that I don't wear coats often enough.

T shirts in cold weather I see all the time in the NE but geordies are real wusses in the rain... though I did move here from Snowdonia where they have real rain.