North V South

[Honest00lad]

In the dating world. Is their cultural differences that you have noticed that impact on dating? Do you have a preference? Or does it not matter.

If you are the north could you imagine yourself with a southerner and vice versa? I'm not saying what I am, but I couldn't imagine myself with the other. Just curious about this after a comment at work today.

I'm from the south but living in Yorkshire. If I wasn't married to DH I could easily marry a Yorkshire man. There's really not much of a difference apart from accent.

Known for their Short arms, deep pockets!

Cultural differences of course have an impact on any relationship. But I find it fascinating that English people could feel they have so little in common with one another.

My dad is Irish and my mum is Chinese. I grew up in 3 different countries and moved to London in my 20s. DH is from London. I guess what I'm trying to say is that for me, the north south 'divide' is....perhaps not the hugest cultural divide to ever exist 😅

Argh pressed post too soon. @Honest00lad could you only be with someone from your specific part of the world? I imagine you must think people like me from mixed backgrounds must be extremely strange.

Everything is relative. Sounds like you had a very rich, diverse upbringing.
But the north/South divide in England is pretty big and surprises people from from other countries, even other home nations.

Wow.

Not at all. I think I'd rather be with someone from outside the UK than the other end of England

I'm from the south, my partner from the north. The only real divide in our relationship it causes is the argument about what the evening meal is called, soon to be entering its seventh year and neither of us is backing down.

but I couldn't imagine myself with the other.

That’s an incredibly depressing world outlook.

I don't find it 'surprising' really, it's quite common for there to be big regional differences in different countries.

But never becoming close to someone solely because they were from a different part of the country? I do think people can have similar values even if they are from very different places. Though you can't force attraction I guess.

I'm a northerner living in the south, recently divorced from a southerner, heading home!

Stereotypical bollocks 🙄

I'm Southern and DH is northern. I had to get used to the volume of his talking, when we were having a discussion/ debate, I thought he was shouting at me but it wasn't, it was his loud northerness.

DH says my family remind him of stereotypical Southerners; tight, won't leave the south, snobbish and twats 😂... I think he would have never dated a southerner but obviously I'm not a typical one... maybe its because I have gravy on everything. 😂

It's not a world outlook, is it? It's a national outlook.

Oh I know, course it is.

A lot of nonsense. I've met plenty of generous Yorkshire men and tight southerners.
Maybe if you didn't believe in outdated stereotypes, you wouldn't believe there's such a high gulf between northerners and southerners.

I said what they are known for. Not what I believe to be the case.

Us too. When I say what would you like for tea my southern children look at me like I'm an alien. And don't get me started on baarth time - it's bath!

Yorkshire people are known for their generosity and sense not for being tight.

I suspect that southerners waste more money and are tighter..

Surely they're used to their mum calling their evening meal 'tea'...unless you've just started doing it?

My mum spoke a whole other language to me most of the time and i never looked at her like she was an alien 😆

How can you waste money and be tight at the same time?

Because they spend on themselves and not share with others who might need.

it's not nice to be criticised is it, especially if unfairly.

Not liking someone based solely on where come from smacks of a kind of racism.
That been said, someone who bangs on about "god's own country" and looks down on others is not a pleasant person to be around.

I don't think you know what racism is.