The South is so much better than the North of England…

Cougar – admire the sentiment but Thwaites isn’t the best example, mate. Plenty of others though. There’s about 5 close to us in the Lost Kingdom of Darwen.
Meanwhile, back to the OP, on a trolling level I’d give that a generous 3/10.

Theres dust on T`Standedge now …………tha knows 😆

Oh christ, it’s another unfitgeezer erectile dysfunction thread.

Personally I’m waiting for the inevitable “why isn’t everyone white” thread for maximum points.

In other news, look at this beautiful blossom at the allotment today.

Nope Cougar, I’m talking about Harrogateshire and the Dales, includes Ilkley, Skipton, Grassington, Hawes (Masham excluded) Ripon, Kirkby Malzard, even going into the Vale of York is a desert of real ale pubs.

Accrington, well I’m sure you have one or two there, enjoy a pint whilst I drive around in circles looking for a decent pint instead of going down the Bell again.

Anyway, won’t be up there for a few months so I’ll let you enjoy the yellow thing in the sky whilst you have it.

My local (in the Dales) has a selection of 6 ales on tap which change every time I’ve been in. The 3 or 4 other pubs here seem to have a couple each, though I don’t bother going in them much for obvious reasons.

The North is absolutely rubbish. I open my curtains every morning and breath a heavy sigh of despair as I look out on the grim view of all those boring tedious hills and their rubbish trails.

I only live here so you don’t have too.

You stay down there.

No-one seriously says the north is rubbish. However some northerners seem to seriously think the whole south is rubbish. I used to think that until I worked there. There are rubbish bits, of course, both shitty places and a unique kind of rich rubbishness, however there are lots of fantastic bits. And there is loads of good rising too in places. As above, the Midlands is probably the worst region for riding, overall. Bit even there there are good pockets .

Unlike say, the US, where there can be no riding at all for hundreds of miles.

Well thecaptain clearly you want to keep that pub to yourself.. 🙄

…there are nice people in the South, great scenery and just generally lovely, like many other parts of the country.

There, that’s better, fixed it for you.
I love living where I do, Wiltshire is a pretty diverse county, like chalk and cheese, which is exactly where the expression comes from; the chalk of the central and southern downland, and the cheese from the north and northwest where there’s more arable and cattle farming. And sheep, once there were nineteen mills along the Bybrook valley where Castle Combe sits, weaving wool.
But equally there are many other stunning parts of the country, from the Broads, with their huge skies, the Dales, the Lakes, the further south-west into Dorset and Devon, with both Dartmoor and Exmoor, Cornwall, Wales with stunning coast , the Beacons and the Black Mountains and Snowdonia, the Peak District, Scotland with its vast empty and bleak but beautiful areas up in the North-west, it’s mountains, lochs…
We are blessed with a remarkable country, with breathtaking scenery everywhere, and most of it easily accessed in a few hours by car, unlike America, where if you’re some poor bastard living in, say, Des Moines, you could probably drive for a week and see nothing but wheatfields! I’ve flown over the big flat bit between Minneapolis/St Paul and Denver, and looked at roads below that stretched to the horizon in both directions; living there would drive me insane!
No one part of our island is better than any other, just different, and for that we should all be bloody grateful!
Oh, and beer! We have over 1400 breweries and many great pubs, just not enough, really, and I love pretty much all the beer I’ve drunk from most parts of the country. Some I’m not so keen on, but that’s a taste thing, nothing else.
Celebrate the fact, and drink lots!

The Chilterns are shocking, there aren’t endless trails fantastic climbs & descents, wonderful green forests of outstanding natural beauty blessed with gorgeous quick drying single track or-quiet country lanes, just labour hating Tory Land Rover driving nibys (no irony in the last bit) 🙂

It was a comment about pubs not breweries

The two I linked to were both brewery tap pubs.

Cougar – admire the sentiment but Thwaites isn’t the best example, mate.

True, I really just threw it in there as one someone would have heard of.

Nope Cougar, I’m talking about Harrogateshire and the Dales

Fair enough.

Mol grips you have lived in Hadfield, that’s proof enough that the north is better than the south. Mind Padfield is better.

Ha! Harrogate the northern town for those that really think they are cosmopolitan Londoners. WA.kers all. It’s the only town that would vote against a free Yorkshire.

We live in Co Durham but have family in Scotland Surrey Stockport etc. My take is there are lovely people all over the place but don’t pretend you have proper countryside down south. It’s all very Midsommer but all you really have is a strip of green belt between towns. 😆

Guessing that the OP is a southerner living in southernland, then surely the worst place and the place closest to the place most devoid of culture or anything remotely resembling intelligence is reserved for the poor sods that live next door to the OP, no?
Ergo, the worst place is the south.

I moved up North recently. I tell my Southern mates it’s shite just so they don’t follow suit and ruin it.

As somebody said earlier though, the standard of driving is woeful

My only other regret is that my boy will probably end up supporting Manc City/Utd or one of them Scouser teams

If I could I’d be out of the south and in the northeast like a flash!!

I like the North. I like the South. Now the Midlands on the other hand…. 😀

Hmm i’m in Harrogate, the riding is brilliant, the air is usually less poluted and i’ve got the Peaks, Dales, and Lakes within easy visit distance, yes terrible, don’t know how I cope some days 😉

Wookster – Member

If I could I’d be out of the south and in the northeast like a flash!!

Move, you know it makes sense!!

I’m from the North,but I’ve lived in the South for a long time now.
Both are beautiful,both have occupants I’d class as undesirable . Food options makes the south officially better though.
What really upsets me though ,is that Li’l J will probably be a Gooner! (He already talks like a cockerny(sic) 🙂 )
5/10 for the trollage.

Nope Cougar, I’m talking about Harrogateshire and the Dales, includes Ilkley, Skipton, Grassington, Hawes (Masham excluded) Ripon, Kirkby Malzard, even going into the Vale of York is a desert of real ale pubs.

http://www.villagebrewer.co.uk/our-pubs/blind-jacks/

It’s in Knaresborough BTW.

HTH.

Yeah food in the north is grim.

Molgrips wins at trolling though because there’s no way he’s being serious.

It’s great that we love where we live….I’m pretty content too down here in Surrey. But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t change a few things if I could. Nothing’s perfect….although the weather was today!

The North is not a suitable environment for Southerners, the climate, food and sarcasm are simply not tolerable.

As long as the southerners think it’s shit up north, that’s fine by me

I think it’s because we still use plates in the North, it confuses Southerners not having their ‘lunch’ served on wheel trim.

I agree with one of my best mates who’s Lakes born and bred, who comes down to London fairly frequently: London ladies are very often absolutely smashing to look at but you’d struggle to get a very meaningful conversation from them that lasts more than a few minutes 🙂
There really are some who carry dogs in their handbags!

Molgrips wins at trolling though because there’s no way he’s being serious.

What? About the riding?

Am I the ONLY person on STW who’s ridden in both the North and the South?

No-one seriously says the north is rubbish. However some northerners seem to seriously think the whole south is rubbish.

This bit.

We had a couple of nights in Ilkley earlier this year; found two great real ale pubs.

Wherever you are in the Uk, sitting on top of a bike an looking out at what you’ve achieved on a Sunny day is awesome.

I agree with the OP. I live in SW Sheffield, there are no good pubs or beer, coffee is uniformly dreadful and as for the riding, either on or off road, forget it – just dreadful! Houses very expensive too

London. One of the great capitals of the world. End of thread.

Cue the London envy —-> “it’s a shithole” etc.

When ma brutha done gone married his cousin hiss daddy done got him a new shootin’ car. My daddy says I gotta marry me real purty laydee if ah wanna shooting Car but ah already dunn gonnand married ma hog. He’s my best friend.

London. One of the great capitals of the world. End of thread.

Cue the London envy —-> “it’s a shithole” etc.

My son is from Durham. like me. He’s lived in London for the past 8-10 years or so, Camden, Sydenham & now somewhere else that he’s just moved to. Not his own place of course cos he’s ‘only’ on 50K a year so can’t afford anything less then a shitehole.
He’s looking for jobs further North ATM, had enough of the shithole that it is.

I am lucky enough, and happy, to live in The North, but have reasons to visit The South (whatever those two terms may mean).

Happy with the situation as it stands.

London. One of the great capitals of the world. End of thread.
Cue the London envy —-> “it’s a shithole” etc.

I think London is a great city. I love visiting, however am in no way envious of people living there. It is possible to like a plave without wishing to live there.

London’s great. It keeps the Cockneys away from the North.

They all live in Essex or Spain now.

bearnecessities – Member
Oh christ, it’s another unfitgeezer erectile dysfunction thread.

Personally I’m waiting for the inevitable “why isn’t everyone white” thread for maximum points.

You are a **** !