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

In fact it was more like a pub down here in the surrey actually.

No eye contact between customers, terrible ambience and hugely overpriced?

We moved my elderly MIL back to a care home in her own home town in Shropshire after six months staying with us here in Lancashire while she received chemo. She hates it there; she keeps saying: “I want to move back to Lancashire; they’re much nicer to me there!”

Arrangements are in hand to move her back north.

Mr Woppit – Member
…Who gives a sh1t.

mostly, it’s fun to post things like this:

and say that it’s rubbish up here, not nice at all, made even worse by the lovely, local beer and icecream.

you wouldn’t like it.

Check out the eye-watering prices in the Drunken Duck TG – only a stone’s throw from Coniston? More expensive than most Surrey pubs IME.

I still crave the days (70s-80s) when they served the most glorious chicken or scampi in a basket (slightly fried chicken)washed down with Theakston’s XB. And all for a sensible price.

And quite a few lock-ins in those days

Not like you to cherry pick your data THM?

Sorry did I miss something? Is this a serious thread? 😯

DEADLY!

That Whitby Drac?

Fantastic YHA there

That Whitby Drac?

No it’s in the North.

there are lovely cricket grounds all over the country.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/galleries/Englands-most-beautiful-cricket-grounds/cricket-lords/%5B/url%5D

Nice article I like this one.

20 years in both, presenty in the inbred farmers section and whilst theres good and bad in both I wouldnt move North.

I wonder how may Northerner’s go South for great biking? Cos, Southerners definitely go North.

Beautiful cricket pitches everwhere – I play cricket here, where its been played since the 17th century

EDIT: Wormsley is a particular favourite and you get a great view of it when cycing in the Chilterns.

I wonder how may Northerner’s go South for great biking?

They would, if they knew how good some of it was. And, one suspects, if they weren’t so burdened with fried potato products on their upper bodies.

People from the South go to the hotspots in the North like the Lakes and so on. As do people from other parts of the North. People don’t come up from London to say, Rivington, do they? Or do they?

@molgrips – where’s this GREAT mountain biking in the South….genuine question.

I wonder how may Northerner’s go South for great biking?

I’ve heard some go for hilly hills.

You mean like all those flat moors in Devon, it’s true that 25 miles on Exmoor is nothing like 25 miles in the lakes or the peak district, but being an open minded sort of chap I can enjoy the north as well as the south. Actually is it fairer to say the west of the UK has better biking than the east?

Well, I went for a lovely bike ride earlier, and it was glorious. Hardly a soul around, surrounded by green and nature in abundance, mostly dry and dusty trials, some nice food along the way, even found some new trails in an area I’ve been riding in across 3 decades. Altogether truly wonderful experience. One of those days you’re really glad to be alive.

Enjoy what you’ve got, while you’ve got it.

local beer and icecream.

nowt wrong with Rebellion brewery & Beachdean ice cream nestling here in the sunny chilterns, mind you it looks like Beachdean have opened a production facility up north – no doubt to save on refrigeration costs

There’s a North of England?

As an inbred farmer, turned farmer, turned sheeperist, turned farmer where could I enjoy living up North? Where has the STW approved scrote to toff ratio, hilliest hills and more scenic cricket pitches than one can shake a willowy stick at?

I’ll let Molgrips answer as he’s the only one that knows the North and the South, especially hilly hills.

clodhopper
Every corner of this island has something amazing to offer.

binners
You have not been to Rochdale then?

It alright binners, Rochdale is nowhere near a corner.

It alright binners, Rochdale is nowhere near a corner has a Greggs.

where could I enjoy living up North?

Yorkshire.

It is the predictable STW approved answer 😉

I wonder what % of STW members are from 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.

Perhaps a quick walk between Calne and Marlborough then?

The South = Arsey.
The North = Moody and arsey.
The Midlands = Folk who just get on with life.

Signed, an Anglo-Yank who lived in the South most of his life, spent years in The North, the moved to the Midlands.

The North and The South spend too much time trying to be ‘it’, whilst The Midlands just gets on with things.

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.

That’s just not true. Yes, there are some places where the towns are close together; but there are up north too.

A part of the South:

Those are the hilly hills then?

Are they actually really small or just very, very far away?

More South, look at all those towns:

Those are the hilly hills then?

Are they actually really small or just very, very far away?

No, those are not the Surrey Hills. Those hills are both small and very far away. I live in Wales, I know a hill when I see one.

Surrey Hills:

I’m not saying it’s the best place on Earth, or that it’s better than anywhere up North. I’m just trying to educate some of you who are talking total bollocks. There are hills, there is good riding, and there is plenty of countryside.

Elsewhere in the South:

Dreadful, overcrowded, flat…

Are they actually really small or just very, very far away?

😆

Dreadful, overcrowded, flat…

I was just going to say that, look at those people and where’s the hills?

The Midlands just gets on with things.

When you’ve even failed to find somewhere nice to live you just have to make the most.

I would honestly rather live North or South than in the Midlands. Unless it’s the far West Midlands, Shropshire, Herefordshire.. they’re lovely.

Check out the eye-watering prices in the Drunken Duck

we (a civil engineers group that go twice a year and stay at low garth hall in little langdale) used to go there regularly and I remember trying to fit 21 people in that telephone room in the corner of one of the back rooms.

Nowadays we eat in the hut after the walks though – more female partners come along so things are more sedate…