Are people from some areas friendlier?

[McBethany]

I’ve recently been on holiday to a place that due to its location was full of Scottish people and Geordies. I was struck by how friendly everyone was, chatty with strangers, and friendly. Everyone saying morning or afternoon when they pass you.

Its similar when I’ve been to Liverpool - I strike up conversations with strangers all over the place. Great customer service too, chatty bar staff who seem to give a shit about serving you.

This isn’t a South bashing thread, and I’m aware everywhere has its share of miseries, grumps and idiots. But do you think the stereotype of friendly Northerners is true?

That's why I love Yorkshire. They are the nicest people

I duno, I went to Manchester and Leeds recently for work and found both a bit intimidating to be honest. Not very friendly feeling. Maybe that's because they're big cities and I'm not used to them.

Depends how friendly you think voting brexit is

North England and friendly. North Wales are not!! ... But not in a southern way like they are too busy to talk it's more like they are too awkward to talk and not welcoming.

In my experience, northerners are incredibly friendly to other northerners, even if they've never met them before, but can be quite cold to southerners until you get to know them. Southerners are generally polite to everyone but not particularly friendly unless they know them. Londoners are just Londoners: everyone’s friendly in their own way, because half the population are from somewhere else where things happen differently.

Just come back from a week in Northumberland, loved it….people just chat.

Friendliest people I've found are in Wigan and Glasgow. The most unfriendly and up their own arses are in Solihull.

Always found Manchester folk to be very chatty. And Glaswegians

Northerners are much nicer and friendlier. Always lived in the south went with my teen to several open days in northern universities we both noticed how much friendlier people were generally,

I'm a southerner who moved to Leeds. I find people very friendly here.

From personal experience I find northerners to be much more friendly than southeners. I say that as a southener myself.

I did genuinely lol at the Solihull comment. Tbf there are a few friendly ones.
Yep OP northerners are definitely friendlier. That's what I miss in my exile.

I've lived in all kinds of places- I found scousers and geordies very friendly indeed - 'up north' friendlier in general and the West Midlands and Oxford extremely unfriendly , Other places a mixed bag- London can be great too if you are lucky to 'find your crowd'

I'm from the south, lived in various places in south, north and abroad. IMO, northerners are generally friendly. I've also noticed in Scotland people seem even more open and chatty with each other. Purely anecdotal obviously, but based on many years observations and I've no axe to grind!

I'm from Yorkshire and tbh don't always find northerners that friendly, especially towards kids I think there's more of a seen but not heard thing. I live further south now. But there's a level of respect for community and strangers, which is why you say good morning/hello when passing anyone. It's a nice thing, I've made quite a few friends around from saying hello enough times you end up making conversation.

Yep, I always have to readjust when I go back to Scotland and remember to build in time for chatting at checkouts; there is a definite sense that people up there are genuinely interested in others. On the other hand I used to have to stop my Mum trying to talk to strangers on the Tube when she came to London!

I’ve lived in several places in England longterm, as well as overseas, and the only place I found impenetrably unfriendly was rural Leicestershire.

Southerners and Wales noooo northerners yes

Yes I do found certain areas much friendlier than others. I think lots of areas in North of England are very friendly. I find North West friendly however, just down the road I found North Wales had a very strange and unfriendly vibe!

All purely anecdotal of course 😊

I’m a midlander with a family all from
Yorkshire…. They are very friendly sure but it’s not about the levels it’s about the immediacy of it. A bit like Americans who can be very friendly and hospitable as soon as you meet them. People from other parts of the country can be more reserved but that’s not the same as being unfriendly. Northerners love the trope that they’re all salt or the Earth blah blah blah but people are not that different.

I'm from the US Deep South, which is a generally friendly culture. I've traveled fairly extensively in the UK, and although Edinburgh is my favorite place in the world, in my opinion, no one can beat Glaswegians for friendliness.

Different cultures have different views of what constitutes polite interaction. Google negative politeness- the notion that the polite thing is not to impose on someone else by eg talking to them. Common in areas of high population density- Japan is the best known example but also the south of the UK.

I wouldn’t put too much faith in Liverpudlians. The gangs of kids in balaclavas vandalising, attacking and intimidating anyone they can, the families who fall over themselves to lie for and support those kids like they're gods gift, the way they treat anyone who looks a bit different. Drugs, gangs, shootings, people being knifed. It's who can shout/kick off the loudest/be more aggressive wins. Extremely prevalent on a daily basis.
There's friendly like "having a natter" with someone but there's a huge twisted culture behind the facade. It's far more shocking and back handed than you'd think. Capital of culture my arse.
Long history of experience, living nearby and spending a lot of time there over decades. It's worse now than it was before and it's spreading outwards.
Decent people are few and far between.
Trust me, you don’t want to look "different" and walk around the city centre in daylight, never mind as it's going dark. Those kids have knives. The city centre McDonalds has security guards and wont let more kids in without an adult after a certain time.

Northern Irish are the friendliest in the UK.

NI by far the friendliest. When I used to visit whilst living in NI I thought loads of people had some sort of wee want in them until I realised they were just super friendly