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.

You neec a Welshman. By that I mean a proper, rural, cetic, feisty welshman, not a dodgy valleys bloke.
can you tell I'm married to one

Celtic even. Grrr

CaptainKirk - ooh, I'm a Yorkshire lass too! Obviously I must state this says nothing about the quality of Yorkshire blokes!!

MeKathryn: the Geordies aren't as wussy in the rain as DH. No one is. You've never seen anything like it; he genuinely thinks it'll harm him in some way. I'm a weegie, so I'm used to being rained on and can't see the problem.

I found myself a lovely Northerner who definitely would not be seen dead reading Harry Potter or Twilight on the tube, but by the same token is also the very opposite of a misogynistic thug.

I'm very lucky

Im from down south and I married a German.

He isnt very manly though.

DP is a northerner - he is from an old mining village, has a shaved head plus permanent five o'clock shadow, supports his local football team still, drinks bitter, has an extremely sarky sense of humour, and started going out to the pub when he was eleven about seventeen.

Is that what you mean?

He is also a passionate environmentalist, bird-watches, and has a geeky knowledge of contemporary poetry and indie film.

Stereotypes don't work

Revolting peasant - but does he wear a coat!

what a nice op

nancy he does own a waterproof jacket - out on nature reserves a lot - but frequently does not wear it. He never wears any outer layer other than a hoodie when going out in town, no matter what the temp, unless we are going to a posh restaurant.

He wore hiking boots to the opera in February

My DH is a Geordie that hates footie and is a bit of a wuss in the cold weather but does look & sound like Jimmy Nail :)

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

idiots or poor people wear t-shirts in the rain, sensible people or people in expensive suits/haircuts huddle in doorways until the rain stops

i'd rather by dry in an expensive outfit and hairdo than a poor idiot getting wet.

DH is a Scot and has been known to wear a skirt kilt
But to me he's a Southerner all be it by 2 miles

Expensive hair cuts?? Expensive suits?? The north values not these things! Scissors n a bowl and your funeral outfit's the only suit you'll own!! By 'eck!!

@ spirit. sounds like something my dad would say apart from the "by 'eck"

Damn! I totally should've gone for flat caps and whoppers there!

Whippets!!

:o

Real men are v rare.

Most of them are Cornish.

Keep off !!! :)

'whoppers'

Actually in all seriousness DP has not been to a barber since about 1989. First his mum, now I, cut his hair. We don't use a bowl though because he doesn't have enough just a razor on Grade 0.

Ah yes pen like my mechanic, who, to my joy, actually refers to my car as a 'Toyoty'

Really you are all wrong, real men are Australian, my dh removes spiders with his bare hands!

hahaha - I'm a northerner and married one.
He does still say 'eh'.
I think Northern men make more of an effort to dress up - it's a working class tradition which harks back to the days of the teddy boys, looking fly and spending all their wages on regency style coats.
Whereas middle class Southerners dress down.