Any South and North relationships?

[Frenchier]

I'm from surrey and DP is from brum.

Do you find that there are any challenges or differences at all based on coming from different parts of the country?

With mine, I find DP can be loud and will talk to anyone. Whereas I'm more reserved.

I'm from New York and I once dated a bloke from Atlanta. I found him a bit too reserved for my tastes.

Does that count?

I'm in London and my fella is from Cheshire/Liverpool. I haven't really noticed any differences other than he sometimes doesn't get some of my sayings or London slang, he finds it all very amusing though.

*@Newnewt

We are Surrey and Midlands and yes he is much louder!! *

It's just something I've really noticed, just the way he is and he admits he is too.

@ChaoticMinds
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Same with the visiting thing - he is surprised that friends and I walk in and out of each other's houses

Haha exactly what my DP says and I was surprised too. So different to what I'm used to.

@maevedidlt
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Surely you'd want to know exactly/even roughly on a map where your DP comes from??*

I've been saying he's from "up north" for a while now. He hasn't even bothered to correct me lol

AllTheWhoreOfMalta
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My first instinct is to say he was a humourless bellend who had a chip on his shoulder, but now I think about it we lived in London and he might have been more like that because he was a northerner in London*

Yes I can totally see that, the chip on his shoulder. Luckily DP doesn't have that, he prefers it down here because he didn't like his area where there was a lot of gangs and a big divide between whites / black / Asian etc. Also he feels there's more work opportunities etc

Im from London, my ex-H was from south Wales, and my ex-BF was a Yorkshireman. They both went on and on and FUCKING ON about "God's own country"....i would have happily murdered them for the price of a pint (and not a pint in London, either). I used to work with a girl from Up North, it was like living in series 1 of Game Of Thrones. Everything was apparently better / friendlier / cheaper / lovelier Up North. No idea why she bothered leaving it to live in the Grim South.

I'm from the South coast, my ex spouse was from New Zealand...very laid back and fun to be around, but too much of a distance to make it work.

I love a Geordie accent

@MrsMoastyToasty the language divides are everywhere. DP and I are both from the midlands. He is from Nuneaton and I am from Derbyshire/Staffordshire border. An hour away and we can barely understand each other.

I say bap, he says batch
I say muffin, he says pikelet
I say scone, he says scon
I say dinner, he says lunch
I say tea, he says dinner. Gets very confusing. We were watching sky news the other day and he said out of the blue about kay burley... "looks she's a dick as well" I asked why and he said "did you not hear? She said tea.

I'm from the South and an ex was from North Yorkshire. We got on great at the time but I didn't like visiting much as the people were very anti southerners and quite unfriendly but that could just have been his friends!

DW is a northerner (London) I am from the south (Isle of Wight). No real difference.

My parents - Teesside and Brighton
Us - Sheffield and London

I’m not sure that any of us have any particularly regional behaviours.

It's interesting to find this question here, as I've wondered about it a lot myself.
I'm from the north east (mackem) and dh is from the south coast (Portsmouth, Brighton, Devon) and has lived up here for about 20 years. As soon as I met him I thought, "oh no, not a southerner," mainly because I'd just broken up with a Londoner! And really, I think we've struggled to connect partly because of the north south thing. I find that even after 15 years together, he still just doesn't understand me at times. I have to lessen my accent around him, whereas I can talk to friends and colleagues with as much of my mackem accent as I like and we all have a laugh together because we have a similar sense of humour and can all relate to each other and our backgrounds. It doesn't feel like that at all with dh, so I'm really not being my true self around him. I have a friend who I can just completely be myself with. He's a geordie, and we totally get each other. I feel so much more natural with him because I know I don't have to change myself. I really thought it was just me overthinking, but maybe there's something in it....