That people in the south think they are better than those in the north

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That's it really.

I'm interested in your opinion.

I an in Cornwall. Exeter is up North. Funny lot there. Went a few times didn't like it. Bristol is dreadfully northern and a very strange place. London is full of busy people. We are better than that. Birmingham is huge and a long way away. Speak funny we are better than them! Some place called Manchester is north of there I believe. Also a place called Liverpool near there. Won't go there as I am told your car wheels will be gone in minutes! Then there is Scotland. Very strange place. Still eat their young and stuff. Firmly tongue in cheek before I get flanked.

YABU.

I am a Londoner.
Apparently that makes me part of some sort of Elite cabal running the country and taking all the good stuff.

The ignorance about the lives of ordinary Londoners is incredibly tedious.

As a Londoner (albeit incomer, not born and bred) I whole-heartedly agree with this. I'm forever having people from elsewhere in the UK tell me cheerfully how they wouldn't like to live in London, but somehow I think they'd be aghast if I snapped one day and told them I wouldn't like to live where they do, even when where they live is where I spent my first eighteen years but have had the fortune to escape from (not north so much as midlands), so I know a bit about what I'm talking about.

sapphire I get that a lot from those on the coast, I count my lucky stars daily that I escaped that fucking back water but its ok to say I'm damaging my dcs bymoving them to london (even though the schools are better, the dcs love it and growing up here is awesome)

Weird isn't it, Gowgirl. I think London would be an amazing place to grow up.

At Uni back in the early 90's I got a few odd comments from southerners about it being bleak up north, no electric, outside loos etc etc. I thought it was posher down south. That was until I went for a job interview somewhere down south that I wont name because I don't want to offend - it was an absolute shite hole. I realised there are posh places and people all over the place and many shit holes scattered along the way.

What a horrible post. Do trot on.......

Jungle Thanks for illustrating my point perfectly but you forgot to mention how rude and unfriendly we all are - all 8 million of us.

Ds loves it sapphire always something to do! I think once he gets a bit older it will really come into its own. I was moved out at the age of 8 to a naice village school on the coast, I still freel robbed and I'm so grateful to be home!

misshoolie you must work on your rudeness you are failing your city as i remember you as very friendly and nice

I'm a northerner living in the south and I don't agree.

I think they'd be aghast if I snapped one day and told them I wouldn't like to live where they do

I am pretty sure without having a conversation with you that if you like living in London you wouldn't like it where I live.... Just be honest who needs to be 'aghast' about anything? Horses for courses, different places suit different people. I wouldn't want to live in London personally but can see why people like it.

Not at all. I'm a southerner born and bred, but love visiting the north. I'd move to Manchester if I could. People seem much friendlier than they are down here.

Your not allowed to criticise elsewhere if you live in London, that makes you elitist, but god do the people outside like to slag off London and its inhabitants ime

I live in the North and have lots of friends from the South as I lived and worked in London for 5 years. This is just simply not true from my experience.

Some take the piss out of Northern quirks like having gravy on everything and living in the same street as your mum (I have two friends who do this and my southern friends found it hilarious for some reason)

None thought they were better though.

Basic, it's not about whether I'd like to live somewhere or not; it's the attitude that they can cheerfully bitch about London to me, when I live there and they know it barely or not at all, but, as Gowgirl put it,
Your not allowed to criticise elsewhere if you live in London, that makes you elitist, but god do the people outside like to slag off London and its inhabitants ime

It's hypocritical.

more people live in the South therefore it must be better because most want to live here

Well I'm from the East Midlands and lived in London. I made some fantastic friends there who definitely didn't think that then I worked with some people from the Kent area who thought they were. Now I live in the West Midlands and the people there are extremely friendly. Personally though I'm not sure it is that black and white.

OP, quite frankly you're being silly. I'd go so far as to say totally bonkers in fact.

Based on my own personal experience I have found Yorkshire and Derbyshire people to be warm and welcoming and very lovely. I have found Mancunians to be sullen and huffy and obsessed with the "North/South Divide" (something I'd never heard of before being in Manchester), Geordies to be friendly and easy-going, the Cornish (the real Cornish) to be quite hilarious and special (that doesn't sound nice but it is meant to be!!), the Welsh and those from Norfolk to be a bit stand-offish and cold to strangers but friendly enough once you get to know them.

I could go on. But because I'm not an idiot I don't presume that my own experiences apply to everyone in those areas!!

And because I'm not a total narcissist it has never ever entered my head to believe I'm better than a whole section of society.

Really ihatetosay? What you basing that on.

I've just moved down from the north and northerners think they're better. Southerners just regard the north with a mild disinterest and aren't bothered.

I agree Sapphire so tell them to nob off

Thanks Gow You're not so bad yourself 🍷
There are boringly regular threads on here asking why on earth anyone would want to live in London 'The traffic! The crime! The pollution! Your poor children!' etc.
Then if anyone responds to yet another 'Why would anyone live in that shit hole?' thread by saying what they actually like about living here e.g. The parks, the variety of cultural stuff, people pile on with 'We have that too!' and 'Fucking Londoners think the world ends at the M25'.
I can't remember a single thread asking why anyone would want to live in Liverpool/Norfolk/Glasgow/Swansea because the OP would be lynched.

Actually unless northern cities are in the news or I'm chatting to someone with a broad accent, the north barely crosses my mind.
I did however once work for an extremely tight ex military Scotsman (think nicking the Christmas tips) so I'm slightly biased there....

Quite, MsHoolies.

Basic, I haven't so far because I thought it'd be rude.

But I'm feeling increasingly bolshy as I get older, so I think the next person who lays an anti-London line on me might do well to hang on to their hat.

YABU

I'm from the south. My OH is from the north. No way do I think I'm better than him just cos of where I live.