To want to move back home? (Northerners, feel my pain!)

[edam]

Went back up North for my Godmother's 90th birthday party at the weekend, to the village where we lived until I was 7 (moved away due to father's job but moved back to a neighbouring village a few years later).

It felt so nice. Comforting, cosy, full of nice and 'real' people. I don't know how to explain it, but people up North just are different. Friendlier, more straightforward, very dry sense of humour that is always just beneath the surface. Down South, you can have quite a long conversation before anyone cracks a joke...

I live in the Home Counties, very nice small town that is (relatively speaking) friendly with a sense of community. But it's not half as genuinely friendly and can be quite smug and pretentious. I dunno, I'm generally quite happy here, but going back 'home' made me long to return permanently. Oh, and the countryside around my Yorkshire village was just stunning, and feels 'right' to me. While Hertfordshire is just there. All very nice and all that but hardly compares!

I want to live in Denby Dale!

edam when I said R4 was "non-northern" I didn't mean that northerners don't get it or like it...I just meant it's British humour that's not specifically northern...basically I was tying myself up in knots trying to put my finger on what "northern humour" might be..and used that (along with the delighful Mr Carr) as an example of what it's not. iyswim.

I'm from the south but I went to Uni in Liverpool.
I loved it but it was a HUGE culture shock.

Things I like about the North;
Sense of humour
Party(drinking) culture is happening
Down to Earth

I am back down South with dd and I think I prefer it. I am an eccentric so I fit right in here. I never felt that I would fit in 100% with the scoucers. I am still friends with a few of them but I will never be one of them. I think most people yearn for where they grew up.

thesecondcoming, I know what you mean about people offering favours etc, when I had DS2 a friend of mne from playgroup who I knew quite well, but not really close offered to come round and do all my ironing!!!

I don't even do my ironing!

I loved working in Manchester and would have loved living there when I was young and childfree but am not a city type I don't think. It's great to be close enough to pop in for shopping/meals/drinks though.

One thing I was amazed by when I very first visited up North as a teen was how beautiful a lot of the buildings were. Of course, everyone knows places like York and Chester are lovely, but Manchester and Liverpool have some stunning architecture as well.
I'd just thought it was all industrial and bleak previously

hat, actually I think a lot of the scriptwriters and performers involved in R4 comedy are Northerners - I used to be vaguely involved in that world and there were people from every compass point and the middle too.

But I wasn't talking about professional humour at all. You get hideous comics from either end of the country, Jim Davidson was no better than Roy Chubby Brown...

I'm from Walsall...originally. Though the northern winds have blown all my rough edges completely away

I do love Manchester, I wanted to go to Uni there but didn't get the grade I needed in French A-Level, bah!
But I loved working there, the restaurants and bars, shops and cafes are fab.
I only wanted to go to Manchester UNi because of the Stone Roses and Happy Mondays anyway, visited, loved the place then ended up at Aberystwyth (which was amazing fun).
Was Karma that I ended up with a Northern husband methinks. Nothing to do with my penchant for Victoria Wood and Bubble off Ab Fab

9pm tonight, BBC2: 'Prescott: The North/South Divide'. 'John Prescott and his wife travel round the country exploring the reasons behind the assumed social and economic N/S divide.'

We can stop arguing and let Prezzer sort it out, though he may be biased as he is a working class, plain-speaking, Northern lad. I imagine he'll be leaving his croquet mallet back at the mansion.

Hmm. am a Southerner who lived for 14 years in Manchester and while it has many many good points, I wouldn't put the architecture in there as one of them. It was one of the things (along with the weather and the greyness and the flatness) that I was very happy to leave.

Socially and culturally I liked it very much though. never felt like an outsider there.

My husband is from liverpool and I am welsh, we both live in Kent. We are hoping to move back around his family soon!. Only thing I will miss from Kent is the warm weather. It is alot cooler around by his mum!

i left my home town up north 20 years ago. when i left it was a small market town, lovely shops, great to walk around and chat to people you hadnt seen for ages. now when i go back theres loads of people queing up for their methadone prescription outside superdrug and packs of kurdish men leering at everyone.

Brian Sewell for example.....

Says something that he makes JOhn Prescott look intelligent.

Fucking cunting twat face, I have never been so bloody angry!

Sorry, BBC1 atm.

Fecking twat

"Squash, that's a joke right? Unless individual means wearing tarty bits of fuck all 'on a night out wi' the lasses'."

Dinnit diss Newcastle lasses like pet. Nee need.

YAsoooNBU

I am a Northerner who spent over a decade down south (uni then lived in London for ten years). Moved back up north when heavily pregnant to be nearer my family and because I had been meaning/wanting to for years and finally had the excuse.

I am so so glad we did and happy every single day that I'm back in the glorious North

LOLOL at best name in the world
dita!

Oh yes Lizzylou, Brian Sewell is KNOB with bells on!
at his comments from the programme last night!!!!

A ridiculous choice of interviewee by Prescott. Brian Sewell is hated by everyone, Northerners and Southerners alike, because he's the biggest cunt on the planet. He is an embarrassment to the South and I am pleased never to have met anyone remotely like him.

edam, we could set up a Yorkshire folk living in Herts support group.

I wish I'd had a Southerners support group when I lived in Yorkshire. I needed it!

Thanks Muster

Just wanted to add that I lived in London for over a decade and never got a card from any of our neighbours. We had only been in the North for three months last year and we got them from all the houses on our side of the street, most of whom hadn't met us at that point ("To no. 10, Love from all at no. 6" ).