[Closed] If you could of chosen, in which county would you have be born ?

Lancashire.

Obviously.

Yorkshire, obviously. *checks passport....it says Yorkshire! yay!

Yorkshire & funnily enough, I was..!

Cockerneyshire. Obvs!

Yorkshire, luckily enough I was, I only live in Lancashire now cos it's cheap as chips 😆

Sorry but this grips my shit:

[i]If you could [s][b]of[/b][/s] HAVE chosen, in which county would you have be born ?[/i]

Yorkshire has all the warmth and welcome of syphilis.
😀

Don't get me wrong,it's a beautiful place, sadly ruined only in one minor respect.

British Columbia or Savoie

mildred - Member

Sorry but this grips my shit:

If you could of HAVE chosen, in which county would you have be born ?

I don't get all this Yorkshire stuff,just seems weird.

I would [u]have[/u] chosen Yorkshire, and like the lucky lads posting above, I was. I only live in scotchland cos I invaded and married a local lass.

🙂

Obviously not from Yorkshire, suvern at a guess

Yer just can't say [i]of[/i] in place of [i]have[/i] if you've been brought up properly. And that means to use big fat flattened vowels.

It disgusts me...

Does it matter? I'm just glad to be English 🙂

Although, that said, Nottinghamshire was about right for me. Wouldn't want to HAVE been born in somewhere full of grumpy old fekkers like, err, Yorkshire...... 😛

Liverpool. Yes I know it isn't a county but as a cultural and geographical reference, it'll do just fine.

Don't consider myself 'English'..

I don't get all this Yorkshire stuff,just seems weird.

You would if you were.

It's about pride, a feeling of belonging; that unspoken knowledge that your just better. To the outside world we're much like the Scots, but with the generosity removed. If your on the inside though, it's mint.

Take the 2012 Olympics, for example; if Yorkshire was a country it would've been around 9th in the medal table - and we didn't even use Peter Sutcliffe in the Hammer..!

Born in Devon and proud of my roots, just wish I still lived there, maybe one day, until then Dorset will have to do.

Happy with Nairobi on my birth certificate. If it's good enough for that other cyclist fella from Kenya....

Born: Braddon, Canberra, New South Wales.
Bred: Manchester, Here.

I'm pretty happy in Surrey, but then I suspect I would have been pretty happy had my mum's side of the family stayed up in Notts/south Yorkshire.

And then I've enjoyed time spent living in Hampshire and Leicestershire. So I suppose I'm pretty easy to please. Maybe not Norfolk though.

Perthshire -> result

Born in Durham & proud of it, & Durham Cathedral makes York Minster look like a bothy.
I currently live in North Yorkshire, which is great but I don't get all the 'I'm from Fantastic Yorkshire & I'm fantastic' bollox.
Folk who go on like that sound like Texans. I work with loads of Yorkshire lads & lasses & most of it's tongue in cheek!

Anywhere but Essex, I'm not a cockney, I don't have a spray tan, and I can read and write and tell the time.

Sorry but this grips my shit:

If you could of HAVE chosen, in which county would you have be born ?

It's about pride, a feeling of belonging; that unspoken knowledge that [b]your[/b] just better.

Ahem

I would have chosen Kent. Parts of Kent are beautiful. Nice and close to mainland Europe and some reasonable riding.

NZ.

Anywhere but the south east or midlands.

One is a horrible place the other is filled with horrible people.

Northumberland. It's like Yorkshire but better.

Right here in God's county: Yorkshire!

Hazzard.

The one I was born in - Oxfordshire. I'm sure the people are jesting about the south east being uniformly horrible. It is deeply unpleasant in parts, but in others....

Born in Gibraltar but class myself a Yorkshire lass

jivehoneyjive - Member
British Columbia or Savoie

Quite happy with Wiltshire, fairly easy to get to lots of other places, and it's got lots of history and beautiful places to go.

It's about pride, a feeling of belonging; that unspoken knowledge that your just better.

Ahem

Erm, yeah... I was being, erm... Ironic/stupid/spell checker did it (delete as applicable) 😳

Picardie

county kerry

The Isle have Wight, where prepositions are interchangeable.

t' Yorkshire for t' win.

Well flamed for not being brought up right
People not knowing that country is different to county
People wanting to live somewhere because its closer to another country
Worserist of all someone thinking Kerry is better than Cork

British Columbia 😉

matt_outandabout - Member

British Columbia

Edit:- Has it stopped raining yet ?

Well I was born in Uttar Pradesh, which was treated like an English county back in the day....so BC seems a step forward. 😉

I wasn't born in a County. 😐

crikey - Member
Born: Braddon, Canberra, New South Wales.

Crikey, you're older than I thought, been a while since Braddon was in NSW... Though I guess in those times it wasn't even Braddon.

Yorkshire - which as luck would have it...

Oh and I would like to take this opportunity to point out that even up north some of us know the difference between of and have.

Given that I was born in Beverley, in the East Riding of Humberside as it was then whilst the rest of my family were born in Actual yorkshire, I'd have been born in Yorksire too, if only to save me being teased by them for not being a proper Yorkshireman....

I'm proud of where I'm from, Leicester. But i'd probably have chosen to have grown up by the sea or in the hills somewhere. Devon or the lakes maybe.

I live in Yorkshire now though so it's not all bad.

Lancs is on my birth certificate but Perthshire or one of the southern Irish counties would get my vote. As for Yarkshire folk, well you know what say about some folk 😉

Liverpool / Merseyside!! 😀

Personally if there was a choice it would be a Central European country..

Is Yorkshire in Europe... ?

Middlesex. But by the time I was born it had been subsumed into Greater London.

So many yorkshire'ists around here, all with an over inflated sense of importance, which I suppose is fair enough when you consider no one else gives a monkeys about that place. 😉

Right here in God's county: Yorkshire!

Never understood that, everyone knows God's UK home is Canterbury 😛

rickmeister - Member

Is Yorkshire in Europe... ?

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Dolgelleau (CYB)

I would have liked to have grown up in Marin County just over the bridge from San Francisco.

I have visited there a few times and it is great. There would have been lots of IT type opportunities there which would cover work. The riding and outdoor activities available speak for themselves.

Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred,
Weak in t' arm and thick in t' ead

as we like to say down south 8)

Definitely Essex. It looks great! I just love everything about it. As it is I have to make do with Lancashire. Its a source of constant angst and bitterness

Northumberland

Born in Shropshire (Ironbridge) and would quite happily live back there but Hampshire has it at the moment and can't really see me moving.
MrsBouy has a farm in Yarkshire (Harrogate) and we visit very regularly, it's a nice county and all that but it's too cold for me, though I do see what you lot see in it..

You would if you were.

It's about pride, a feeling of belonging; that unspoken knowledge that your just better. To the outside world we're much like the Scots, but with the generosity removed. If your on the inside though, it's mint.

THIS!!

I'm fortunate enough that I could quite easily relocate to Sydney, San Diego or Lyon with my current company but I couldn't bring myself to leave.

Everytime I turn the corner out onto the Chevin as I head out of Leeds and I see the Dales laid out in front of me I'm blown away with just how lucky I am.

You just never get bored of Yorkshires awesomeness.

Probably Cornwall, but quite happy with Kent/East Sussex

Yorkshire's ok but everyone talks funny up there.

West Yorkshire. I dont know why anyone would want to be born elsewhere.

Sussex born and raised, love it.

Yorkshire born and bred in Leeds. Now live in Bristol, but still love going back home to enjoy the broad acres of God's Own Country.

I currently live in a Kingdom and doubt I want to live elsewhere.

Given the choice of another, I'd say either Marin County or Multnomah County.

Essex born and bred man and bwow.

I had a bloody fantastic childhood playing in the woods. Riding to the sea side, so I'm really glad I was born there. Love going back and walking along the sea front.

Would I move back there?

Not on your nelly!

The county of London which is fortunate because I was, LCC ceased to exist in 1965 when it became the GLC

Samuel Johnson summed it up nicely "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life"