What's it like up north anyway?

[DimPrawn]

The girls up north say yes and the girls down south say no. Statistically speaking.

[chef]

Apparently one cannot even get wholmeal pasta up there - and some cafes dont even do a latte.

yes brillo your right, you can't get neither a latte or wholemeal pasta.. we are due to get something called electricity aswell next year, should be fun..

Apparently you can't get Barm Cakes or Chips n Gravy in london??

[TheFaQQer]

it's awful.

Stay out, no matter what you do.

[cailin maith]

I like it up here - I love Manchester...

London is too big - too many people

[HRH]

Less chance of being stabbed after 8pm at night on the way to local shops.

A one milllion pound house means you live in a one million pound house sort of area...

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I like it up here - I love Manchester...

London is too big - too many people

Sssssssh!

[SueEllen]

I like it up here - I love Manchester...

London is too big - too many people

You can tell you grew up in a small place

[Diver]

yes brillo your right, you can't get neither a latte or wholemeal pasta.. we are due to get something called electricity aswell next year, should be fun..

Apparently you can't get Barm Cakes or Chips n Gravy in london??

Hmm! Latte pasta

[Spacecadet]

I like it.

The city (in my case Manchester) has everything I need 24hrs a day and lots of choice, bars restaurants museums etc. i live 15-20mins drive or 30 mins bus out of the centre and the area i live has a very village feel to it (closest ive seen in London is Greenwich) so I dont feel like life is busy city hectic but its close enough to get to if I want.

There's the penine's 30 mins drive away, the lake district about 1hr away and north wales about 90 mins away so getting out of "city life" is easy.

To me the people seem to be the major difference between north and south. There's much more of a local or community (if thats the best word to describe it) feel even when in the city, it doesnt feel like you live your life in a bubble containing you and those with you. Both good and bad i know but people talk to each other, even if they've never met, taxi drivers talk to you, nutters talk to you on the bus, it doesnt feel like your invisible and just another statistic in the rat race.

EDIT: It doesnt feel like everyone in the bar/restaurant/shop your in are competing with each other for whatever reason, people seem more at ease just being who they are and not worrying about trying to impress.

Thats only based on visiting london for business purposes, im sure living there is very different.

Wot he said

plus the airport works

and you don't get charged just for daring to use the public roads to drive into the city

[Bagpuss]

I lived darn sarf for 6 years, It's not that much different except we have less traffic jams and we talk to each other more, we are on the whole a friendlier bunch. The reason is probably that the south east is full of souless commuter towns where the population turns over on a regular basis. I got fed up of living in one and have not regretted moving back quality of life wise. If I were ever to move back I couldn't live in one of those places again, I'd have to live in the city.

But.. This is a very small country it's ridiculous to pretend somewhere 2-3 hours away by car or train is markedly different, in the way some like to pretend. It never ceases to amase me that there are some people living down south who know this country and it's history so poorly i.e. never been to the lakes, never been to historic cities like York. Yet the same people are only too willing to dismiss anything north of Watford.