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?

I was responding to the pp who said there's no nice shops, no JL, only Home Bargains up north.

So insular they voted remain 🤔

IME it is somewhat exaggerated. E.g. I was in Manchester on my own for a few hrs recently (train issue) and met with a lot of unfriendly people (even the woman I ordered a glass of wine from in a pub wouldn't even look me in the eye let alone have two mins of conversation) yet I've always been surprised at how friendly londoners are due to what I'd been told (I'm near another northern city)..

Ha, this made this soft southerner/hard and miserable Londoner laugh!

I'm South now, but have family in Scotland and I spent spent some years in the NE and loved it. I'm sure I still "think in Geordie" sometimes 😆