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Yorkshire has it all.
If it aint in Yorkshire it aint worth visitin
lincolnshire isnt northern.
north lincs and the humber yes. lincolnshire in general, no.
Pffftt, Yorkshire, merely adequate
People are friendlier. Even the midlands compared to Reading, my current home, the difference is noticable.
I like the fact you can speak to a stranger in public places without them thinking you are mental
Apart from that not much tbh.
edit: given the above the folk are just as friendly IME but not with strangers
Girls are better looking in Manchester
The best thing about The North is "seeing it in your rear view mirror" or "the road out"!!!
Just jesting.
Manchester City - obviously!!
Actually, just thinking this through. And especially why I dislike London town so much.
It's people, I just don't like 'em. You're all fine on the internet, but not in person thank you. Which I guess is why I like the North, better and bigger empty places. Probably explains why I think the Cairngorms being 45 minutes away is still too far.
I mean, there are some nice bits of countryside down south. And yeh it's a bit warmer if your nesh. But it's just too tame for my tastes.
banks - Member
Girls are better looking in Manchester
😯 😆
Village idiots.. there does seam to be a surplas of them north of Watford gap...
😆 @ better looking girls in Manchester
anyone who calls it the north is obviously a southerner
it's t'north
Speaking as a Southerner: space, and the unique landscapes. And the chip shop in that town at the bottom of the Howgills (Sedburgh?) that opened just as we got down from a big loop.
The word "honest" often gets used around Yorkshire folk, but then I hear it a lot over here in that Canary Wharf, often accompanied buy "guv" ..
I know who I'd trust.
When I'm on the sarf carst I often think the North starts just over the bridge of Swanwick on the M27, when in London I think it starts at Muswell Hill.
Can it really move?
Best thing? No southern Nancy's
The accents. Driving south, they start to grate around Northampton, do my head in around Essex and by the time I'm in Kent I am praying to hear some French.
Crewe (is where it starts, it's not my favourite thing. In fact it's 'orrible)
100% this, having lived there for a few years I feel that I have earnt my right to really hate the place, even though I only live 6 miles away now.
Back to the question. The best thing is the people, far friendlier, if a little more colourful
It's a London/Not London thing. The North(tm) is Not London.
This is my favourite thing about the north:
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My little part of it 😀
I'm from The North, but that's 200 miles south of where I live now.
In MTB terms - best thing about this part of the north is that we can ride anywhere we like.
Lets get this right.
Haltwhistle is the midway point of the UK. If you're south of Haltwhistle you're Southern. simple.
Best thing about the North? My mums house, on it's own in the middle of nowhere, 10 minutes on the bike from the Northumberland National park. In Winter, a foot of Snow outside, a big fire and a bottle of fine malt.
Clarification required, which Watford?
Girls are better looking in Manchester?
Stevie Wonder comment...
London has the best lookers by a country mile. Sorry.
All the girls in london look like boys & wear bowler hats whilst pretending to be continental
Girls <29 are much hotter. We do have a lot more skanks though. Ever been wilko's on a week day?
London doesn't have any country miles, just them soft short southern ones 😉
what everyone is missing is the concept of the "Badlands" this is the area that buffers the North from the "south"
encompasses places like Birmingham that neither the North nor the south would want 😉
in answer to the title.
Binners.
oh and Vimto too.
Proper hills
Beer that isn't flat
I struggle with long sentences. or whatever the interwebs acronym is.
north is better because people aren't soft and/or terminally rude.
😀
oh - and we have real actual hills/mountains to ride ...
It's not crowded.
My list:
Its not the South
People are more friendly
Cost of living is less
Better mtbing
Better Beer
People aren't as aggressive when driving
Its not the South
The Tories don't have many MPs in the north
It's not crowded.
Try living in the North West....
It's not crowded.
Apart from that whole southern north bit with Sheffield/Leed/Manchester/Liverpool
Ever driven towards Bradford-Leeds etc?
Its like the North Cicular
And yet 20 mins from central leeds/bradford you have big, wide, open spaces. Bit further from Manchester but not that much.
Lets get the geography straight here. I'm qualified because I'm objective.
Scotland isn't the north it's Scotland.
Wales isn't the north, it's Wales.
Nottingham isn't north it's Midlands.
Sheffield is north, so the line starts somewhere between Nottingham and Sheffield on the M1, and extends up to the Scottish border.
South is any county bordering London, and south of those, and anything south of the M4. Sme of which is also West of course.
Scotland isn't the north it's Scotland.
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Tom B - MemberMy list:
Its not the South
People are more friendly
[b]People aren't as aggressive when driving[/b]
Sorry, but... are you insane?
I have never in my life lived in a place with such willfully aggressive drivers! I spent almost 3 years driving the M62/M60, as well as the dirty streets of Salford, and wild horses could not drag me back to those cursed streets for the drivers.
For the sake of peace, though, I will concede that the cost of living is lower.
Haltwhistle is the midway point of the UK. If you're south of Haltwhistle you're Southern. simple.
What about Dunford Bridge? Just because there isnt enough niche geographical infighting in this thread yet.
Isn't the Leeds end of the M62 the UK's most dangerous motorway?
Question, not a statement.
What about Dunford Bridge? Just because there isnt enough niche geographical infighting in this thread yet.
isnt it in yorkshire?
Isn't the Leeds end of the M62 the UK's most dangerous motorway?
No its just that its full of [s]cocks[/s](ok maybe a bit strong) lets change that to "self importants"who run into each other a lot and cause tailbacks or the female contingent doing their lippy at 8am down the sliproad
The north starts where accents start to sound northern to quiche eating southerners. So draw a line from market Drayton over to stoke etc.
I haven't had quiche in years, not since I lived in Oxfordshire in fact
Coincidence?
Meh london scares the shite out of me when driving. I haven't ventured to leeds before so cant comment..