Its official - Northeners are thicker than Southerners

[scooterscot]

Have you noticed that it's always the Southerners that start this kind of thing?

One suspects they have an inferiority complex

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

[Churchill]

Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Not really. Anyway, what's it to you, Adolf?

[Mich the Tester]

Is anyone from the north stupid enough to get drawn into an argument about this?

You see, this is why we have one of these

The smilie works all over the forum, not just in Suity threads.

What a load of absolute bollox.

Look at the map - it has yellow, orange, red all over the country. look at Edinburgh, parts of Cheshire, Cumbria and even the North East!

It's just like within London - are you trying to tell me the whole of East London is educated just because they are in the south.

Bollox

[Spacecadet]

I think you'll find it's the large number of immigrants who artifically inflate the education levels in the south.

[MarillionFan]

I think you'll find it's the large number of immigrants who artifically inflate the education levels in the south.

The other thing which is annoying about the North is that they do seem to have all the best Bob takeaways. It's almost as if every Asian that moves to England heads North.

Why is that?

[Spacecadet]

The other thing which is annoying about the North is that they do seem to have all the best Bob takeaways. It's almost as if every Asian that moves to England heads North.

Why is that?

Bradford

[MarillionFan]

Bradford

Say no more.

[Churchill]

The other thing which is annoying about the North is that they do seem to have all the best Bob takeaways. It's almost as if every Asian that moves to England heads North.

Why is that?

Partly because of family connections due to relatives originally arriving to work in the mills.

And partly because we're such friendly people, not like you stuck up your own arse shandy drinking southern woofters.

[Mich the Tester]

we're such friendly people, not like you stuck up your own arse shandy drinking southern woofters.

You don´t see anything self contradictory in this sentence?

[BoredBloke]

The point I was making was that there are barriers to entry for the best jobs, and they tend to initially be set by qualifications. How many people went to uni and the pissed off to london or any other big city for their job and then made a life in that area. Hardly anybody I knew from my degree days went back home post graduation. So it stands to reason that the big cities will have a higher number of graduates than pretty rural places. Also, because these educated people tend to earn more than the uneducated and often unemployable its also pretty obvious that they would not want to live in the less desirable areas. Hence the low qualification rates in some inner city areas.

Only an idiot could suggest that this map shows that people up north are less qualified than people down south.