To think people are generally happier in the South of England than the North?

[TigerPath]

I've lived most of my life in the North... major cities like Manchester and Leeds, pretty Lake District towns and villages, Harrogate, York, a small town in the Dales etc... I've moved around a lot.

A few months ago we moved to the South Coast. I've noticed the people here seem so happy! They are friendly and smiley. They ask me if I need directions when I look lost, without me even approaching! They bend over backwards to help and just seem so content and positive. This includes nursery managers, Tesco staff, estate agents, taxi drivers, waitresses in pubs etc.

It's much sunnier here, in fact so bright I feel disorientated at times. The town is full of flowering trees and bushes and blossom- every street looks like a beautiful park! So maybe it's the climate. I'm used to rain and drizzle and cloud.

What do others think?

[wasonthelist]

Maybe you have to spin the positive out of everything when you live in the South rather than telling it like it is eg: damp poky terraced house in the North has to be called "charming artisan's cottage" so people don't have to face up to the full horror of the prices.

[MrsJayy]

Tbf the op probably lives in a nice seasidey place and is a happy bunny I cant imagine her saying the same in December when the winds howling.

[wonkylegs]

I grew up in SE & SW and moved to the NE. My experience is that where I grew up people generally kept to themselves and didn't tend to interact with people outside of their friendship groups, however up here complete strangers talk to you as if they've known you for years. My dad finds it very difficult to adjust to when he visits however after 20yrs I take it as normal. Both areas have happy and miserable people although you tend to notice them more up here because they talk to you.

[treaclesoda]

Famous I find the weather in the south of England to be massively different to where I'm from (the far north of Ireland). I'm always bemused by people in England talking about crap weather because it's so warm and dry compared to home

[treaclesoda]

Mind you, I find the weather in the north of England to be considerably better than home too.

[Alisvolatpropiis]

I'm not from either, I live in Wales. I've found people in the North to, broadly speaking, be friendly in the same way Welsh people are. People in the South of England...not so much.

[limitedperiodonly]

[WallisSimpson11]

Give me the South anytime- please don't get me started on the North- people are so clueless it's 'unreal'. And they are SAD. (all the bloody time).

[QueenCuntyFlippers]

Nowhere I've been or lived seems particularly miserable. If it had done, it was probably my mood that affected my view on the place.

I'm from the north, live in the north, but travel about quite a bit - it's all the same to me

[MrsJayy]

You get miserable buggers everywhere dont you

[MrsJayy]

Say what you feel walis dont you dare hold back now

[LunaLoveg00d]

YABU

I have lived in the Home Counties and people were spectacularly unfriendly, Londoners are the most miserable people out there and we now live in Scotland where people are much happier and smiley. I did think that people in Cornwall were happy and friendly - although you couldn't be miserable living somewhere so lovely.

[DurhamDurham]

I was born in the North East and moved to the South at 18, I lived in London , Herts and Bucks.
I moved back to the North East at 37 after almost 20 years.
I can honestly say that there are just as many happy/miserable/kind/rude people in the South as there is in the North and vice versa......that is to say that you get a mix of people wherever you live.
I'm naturally a happy chatty person, I didn't change when I was down south. I've friends in both divides and they all seem like a friendly bunch to me.
When friends visit from the south they do comment that people tend to speak to each other more when out and about but I haven't noticed a huge difference myself (possibly because I'm the one doing the talking )

[NursedOut]

Come to Hull. We're all fucking treats.

[MrPony]

Are we really clueless? In what way? Am I living up to your stereotype now?!

Some people from the south are too corporate, they are such busy professional people that never stop being Mrs Professional. It's dull.

[MrsJayy]

Yip we are clueless and talk funny oh well

[GetAHaircutCarl]

I'm a northerner, living down south.

Obviously, there are different people everywhere, but I think there are traits/trends that I've noticed.

People up north are funnier and party more, but people down south are generally more positive about life.

[FutureGadgetsLab]

YABU. Wouldn't live in the south if you paid me.

[specialsubject]

there's north and north; all the places you list are on the wrong side of the hills and so wet, cloudy and damp.

plenty of sunny bits outside the bottom right hand corner. Where everyone I call seems fed up with work, traffic etc etc etc.

[FutureGadgetsLab]

Wallis clueless about what?

I've found home cunties people insufferable.

[TheSolitaryBoojum]

I've lived in the NW, in Yorkshire, in the SW and most stops between.
I now live in Sussex and prefer it to anywhere else, but that's just me, I can't generalise for other people.
I found N Yorkshire lovely, the NW mostly hostile and racist, and the stops in between somewhat variable.

[mollie123]

There is North and there is South
what about the bits in between - where do you draw the line
what about a line between West and East England
as far as I am concerned I live in West England (the bit next to Wales ) which is definately not the Midlands or North England and folks round here are happy rural dwellers to a man

[FamousSeamus]

Treacle, I'm from the extreme south-west of the same island, and I quite agree.

[ThroughThickAndThin01]

I am a southerner, my first serious boyfriend was from Liverpool. He was brilliant and I loved it up there. Everyone was so lovely and friendly. I felt very welcome and everyone was very happy. That was 25 years ago - has it changed?

[Toddzoid]

I have a few friends from the south that have moved up north. One of them only had to visit Leeds once to know it was the place for him to be! They all say how much friendlier and more welcoming people are here.

I only have experience of London and I always feel like an invisible number there. I don't think I ever saw anyone smile! Well, aside from the man that was walking down the streets of Brockley wielding a hammer . admittedly no experience of the south coast other than a trip to Brighton once which was like Camden by the sea.