hello mate, if you ride mountain bike yorkshire and lancashire are brill, iam from wigan lanashire , the most important thing is we drink beer not shandy if you can adopt that you will be fine , only joking, been down south quite a bit and its a no thanks from me love it up north , some foods you will have to get use to but its real food not some fancy sushi or jamie frigin oliver bullshit, chips pee wet and gravy, chips babyshead and gravy, lobbys, and as a wiganer how can you forget a pratter pie, love wigan people are nice they say good morning , people in the souf havent got the time of day for you to far up their own arses , move up here you will love it, born and bread northerner for 40 years