Is there a cultural difference between North and South?

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Dh and I have decided we are going to leave our home counties home and move ‘Up North’ to a Cheshire vilage close to Manchester. We’ve spent time in Manchester but not for extended peiords of time. We like the city. Our commute will be slashed in half and our house will be much more comfortable.

I’m of course expecting there to be slight differences but at the end of the day the North is still England. So how different can it be? Right? We get along with pretty much every one we meet.

Am I just in denial?

People talk to each other in London and, thank god, they don't have gravy on chips. Disgusting

East Midlands is not north

It's north to me and so many people here love to tell me how much friendlier people are than Londoners which is so not true

I'm from the north east lived in Manchester for a while & now in the south.
Northerners take the piss more
Southerners are more passive aggressive
Both take the piss/have prejudices based on accents.
That's my experience anyway.

Having lived in both, I would say that the difference in culture between North and South is that the Northerners think the Southerners think they're superior, but the Northerners know they're really superior. 🤣
The Southerners are much less bothered about where people come from.

I'm from Manchester and back here now.
Spent 4 years in Sheffield and I can tell you the weather is DEFINITELY different.
Manchester is somehow colder and I genuinely didn't realise how much it rains here until I moved away 😭

To the OP, Cheshire is considered posh by most Mancunians, despite it's proximity to us. So if you're posh, you'll be alright 👍

I’ve lived in Surrey Manchester and the south west. People are more social up north, more willing to go out and make friends with strangers which I miss. The weather is tough though. In the south summer can start and end in April/November and up north you have about three months of summer.

Cheshire is basically the home counties up north.

It's no stereotype that it rains endlessly in the north west. If you want dry, you need to come to the north east!

Cheshire is where all the footballers live....there's plenty of money...🤣🤣🤣🤣

Generally I find people are friendlier, as in you'll find random people chat to you on the bus or whatever. Smile back, go with the flow, and warn your husband that grown men may well address him as "love" or "duck". Welcome!!!

Better not cone to the west country. We're all wurzels !

Ahh but they be incomers not proper locals.I live in North Somerset and when someone new do walk in the pub the music stops, everyone looks round and the landlord mutters "we don't like strangers round yer"

I personally visited the North a lot when I had a proper job and thought that:
It was definitely colder
You could have a brilliant night out on a Wednesday night in most northern towns
People, especially in Liverpool really make an effort to dress up for a night out
service in shops, restaurants and pubs is muchly friendlier it's not like they are doing you a favour by serving you
you can't get a decent pint of cider...Strongbow I'd rather drink from the Manchester ship canal.
there is much more public transport...the South seems to lack decent public transport apart from london.

Cheshire is not really like Surrey. I grew up in a nice village on the New Mills line into Manc Pic.

You couldn't pay me enough money to move back up to the north west. The weather is generally shit. Everyone knows your business. Lots of peacock behaviour, you can't just go out in jeans and trainers.

I left in the late 90s so it might have changed for the better. But I bet the weather hasn't!!!

Ah, have to agree with her on some of that. The Indian/Chinese/Korean options in York are not brilliant compared to London (can’t speak for Kent). It’s a bit unfair to compare the two of course given relative population sizes and backgrounds but I can understand that.

Gail’s made me laugh though. It’s a chain and there are loads of far better independent coffee shops and bakeries in York.

I can’t comment on Cheshire (wrong side of the Pennines) but there are cultural differences. I’ve been up here 25 years but whenever I go back to the south east it feels very unfriendly, quite superficial and money focussed. Possibly because of the industrial past, the general feeling here is around pride in community, hard work, creativity as a process rather than product. There’s a depth of feeling here that isn’t really mirrored down there (from my experience of a similar amount of time down there).

The differences are smaller now, when I moved up it was the tail end of strippers in the pub on a Sunday lunchtime and women not allowed in certain rooms in the working men’s clubs. That’s disappeared now.

She loves Japanese food, lots of Sushi bars in London, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells.

People are friendlier…..in the north. The north doesn’t start at Watford

There can be massive differences between two cities or villages or towns just a few miles apart. Or even just sides of a town. Its not North vs South, its every place having its own identity.

I've noticed differences between Mill and Mining villages (or Farming villages). It might be 40 years, but there are still scars for example.

Also I wouldn't describe Indian or chinese cuisine as asian although I supose it is really.

🙄🙄🙄… it’s massively friendly in my part of London. I literally can’t walk down the rd without stopping to chat to one of my lovely neighbors.
But for some reason Northerners think it’s unfriendly here 🤷🏻‍♀️
Gravy on chips is wrong wrong wrong on so many levels.
And it’s bloody freezing and brexity up North OP.
I’d move to a nice leafy London suburb if I were you.

They definitely are not friendlier. I don't know why anyone thinks they are. Just like the bullshit that Londoners are not friendly

We eat southerners for breakfast.

But only if they are dicks.

Otherwise we are very nice and friendly. You might even prefer it up here. I know plenty who wouldn't go back after living up here a while.

Totally agree. London is a friendly place. My neighbours there were more friendly than where I live now although they are friendly enough.

Also agree about gravy on chips. Just why do northerners insist on gravy on everything?

I also agree that it's colder. It's cold enough in East Midlands so I dread to think how cold it is further north.

I moved from south to north 30 years ago. I have not adjusted to the climate at all (similar temperatures but I also moved from east to west and it rains all the bloody time here). I’ve occasionally had people here sit me down to tell me how rude and unfriendly southerners are compared to northerners, which I always think is a bit rude and unfriendly, but I’m still
here and unlikely to go back. People are people.
one difference I really appreciate when I go back to visit my parents is the difference in traffic! They don’t go anywhere without queuing. But there are big cities in the north too and they definitely have traffic (the difference is that they have traffic issues in a small town)