To think the average Londoner is better looking?

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I’m from a town near Manchester. Often go to towns nearby and into Manchester. There are all sorts of people of course.

I am currently in London and I can’t get out of my head that the average person here is much more attractive than the average person outside of London. I can’t place why. Is it that people here have more dosh for skincare?😂

Agree! But I'm also from a small town near Manchester.. eek.
Every time i go to london (only ever central) my head is constanlty swivelling! So much more diverse and I swear everyone is taller

Nobody anywhere carried water 30 years ago. It wasn’t a thing.

I’m guessing she’s not from the townships in Cape Town.

A lot of it boils down to affluence and ambition. If you go to New York, you will see well groomed beautiful people. Visiting Disney in Florida I saw some head turning obesity amongst Americans.
I think you will get the ambitious well groomed in London and cities generally. I've also lived in Manchester and if you are in town on a Friday night it is like a Love Island convention. Lots of shapely girls with glossy tresses teetering around on impossibly high heels.
These threads can only ever be about generalisations but just to decry another part of the population, I stayed briefly in a Cumbrian town and the hairdresser didn't even do foil colours. Just an all over tint, roots or nothing. I didn't see many head turning balayages amongst the locals.

I’m from Wigan, not very diverse place so you often see the same sort of body shape walking around. I think a comedian mentioned it once. London, like people have said = more money and then there’s the diversity. That makes for a more attractive population.

London style is much less "done up" when going out at night than in the north or in places like Essex - the heavy contouring, curled hair, strong eyebrows look is not popular for going "out out". You can tell the Essex girls visiting for a night out for example. London night life style is much less "smart" and much more relaxed

But I'd say casual London is in general a bit more polished /fashionable (because generally younger and richer as noted). People wandering around on a Saturday in sportswear tend to be in monochrome smart leggings, top, jacket and nice sunglasses and looking a lot more put together than in a tatty joggers, big fleece, etc.

Plus where I live, there are lots of African families who have Sunday Best church clothes and look super smart at the weekend! Those women would never been in joggers and the kids will never be in a Fortnite hoodie.

Visiting Disney in Florida I saw some head turning obesity amongst Americans.

Goodness, yes.

We get "Love Island" looking girls in any Northern town I have been in on a weekend evening - Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Barnsley, Leeds.

My local small South Yorkshire market town has loads of hairdressers and they all do foils and bright colours.

Public school? I could bet public school kids gravitate to London where the money is to be made. So public school means controlled eating at certain times -not picking up trash drinks and crisps on the way home from school everyday.

It will be the Saffa's. There are a whole bunch there and I reckon tipping the scale in the looks department. 😂

I am not ashamed to say it, but South Africans are generally good looking.

I disagree.

As the capital it’s only logical that London has the most investment. London carries the rest of the country financially.

In return we get cheaper houses, cleaner air etc

We are no longer in the days of going down the pit, or working in service 7 days a week. Unless you’re putting in 12 hour shifts 6 times a week, work is not ‘knackering’ and if people are overweight it’s because they’re not buying the cheap healthy food available.

I thought it decadent then- to carry bottles of Evian, out of my student budget. But now- a lot of people I work with and know - in the Midlands- carry reusable bottles of water. We don’t have a work water dispenser and frankly I think it’s a good idea. Wish I did it too 😂

I live in a semi rural area a very long way from London and it's very obvious when I see someone 'not from here'. That's not to say people here aren't attractive, or well groomed, but the grooming (and tweakments) on people not from here are a different level for sure.

I went to an event a minor celeb was speaking at locally, and she looked like she was from a different planet! Her skin and makeup were impeccable and she looked - I don't know - more expensive.

So yes, probably money, and having different standards to live up to!

Op you are aware that most of Newcastle are currently in London?

They're more likely the attractive people you are seeing around; speaking from experience.

I'm going to chirp up for the South West, here, even though I now live in the North East, mainly because it drives me nuts that all these types of conversations ignore a chunk of the country that isn't London or up North. It's as though Devon and Cornwall only exist when you all go on holiday.

I grew up in rural Devon. People dressed according to what was practical for their surroundings. Devon people, even in the towns, tended towards the 'natural, healthy, outdoorsy' look. Less make-up (except the goth teens, a phase I went through) A LOT less fake tan, but more naturally darker skinned people who tan quickly. (Not me, sadly, but my sister goes brown opening the curtains on a sunny day).

We smile about the North/South divide, because what people REALLY mean is the South East. There are areas of Devon and Cornwall with just as little investment as the North East town I live in now. But the tourists pitch up to the pretty little villages nobody local can afford to live in any more and think everybody is rich.

Never seen a posh part of the north, where is that exactly? Do you go for a walk because there is literally nothing else to do? Good thing you’ve got your friendly manners to fall back on. LOL.

Amanda, is that you?

I’m from the south and live in the north west and people definitely look different between the two places. Not necessarily better looking, just different.

This is nonsense; the opposite is true.
People in London, who may or may not be Londoners for generations, are far less friendly, helpful and cheerful looking compared to most regions.
I guess you've never been on the London Underground!

I posted about the underground. People were more than happy to help, and a few stopped to chat. No less friendly than anywhere else. It’s a myth. Just because people are in a rush, doesn’t mean they’re less friendly.

I would say that people in London tend to be better looking because of money and ethnic diversity. Brits in general, compared to other nationalities, tend to be less attractive imo.

It’ll be Harrogate or York

Much less so in my experience. Generally, people are in a huge hurry in London and the pace of life can be slower outside.

I’ve long noticed this and have heard lots of jokes over the years about a Birmingham 9 being a London 7, etc etc.

I can also tell you that even a London 9 will be a 6 at best in Stockholm or Copenhagen, where a whole different Nordic scale of beauty applies .

I live in rural Devon and an incomer was told to fuck off out of ‘our town’ because they (understandably) complained about dog shit on the beach.

Trust me - far less welcoming

Speaking as a lifelong Londoner - the tube varies. Rush hour, forget it. But outside of that, although people aren’t chatty they will certainly help if asked.

The big difference I’ve noticed is customer service in shops, especially supermarkets, where in London it’s dire and outside London cashiers are actually friendly and chatty.

I was amused by the reference to African churchgoers. Yes, the older men and women get very dressed up for church. But when we got DD baptised, we were the only white people at our local church, and most of the younger women were dressed as though they were about to go clubbing, but in white. Tiny little skintight white dresses. Their spike heels kept getting caught in the grilles in the floor of the nave. It was a very cheerful affair!