PeteBrant

BBC NEWS | Politics | Northern cities 'beyond revival'

They're only saying what Southeners have known for years.

If any of you Northerners are interested, in preparation, I shall be holding classes on how not to put 2 inches of head on a pint when your pour it, the secret behind putting imaginary "r"'s into words like "Bath" and how to identify £50 notes

fatherpierre

The lessons in how to avoid eye contact, jumping bus queues and driving like a **** are also very informative.

mart360

lol its the southener's who have a 25 letter alphabet

rbcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

mart

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

Well I for one like it ooop North, so I'll stay where I am, thanks.

harry flatters

I say why stop at the South of England, keep going till you hit the Northern France

The Chief

Ok it maybe grim oop North but i'd say more grim darn sarf - I dont think anyone can afford a decent house down there nowadays. Brighton for instance - no one has a pot to p*** in down there, a decent 1 bed flat is at least 200k and going out is not much better - crap beer too.

I also ventured into that London recently it took me back to how much of a dump certain parts of it was, i wouldn't live in London for all the tea in China.

It aint perfect up here, it rains a lot and the sheep are ugly but speaking from experience people are a lot more friendly up North.

Awaits Pete's reply - 'Fackin' Narvern Mankey'

stilover

Manchester / Newcastle are far nicer places to live & work than London.

The North is a far nicer place to live than down South. Hence all the second homes bought by people from down south wanting a peacefull getaway.

The South is full of shandy drinking poofs anyway.

The Chief

And no mistake

fatherpierre

I drink bitter.....

Living in the south but being from the north I'd rather live north, but earn south money. Not possible though!!

harry flatters

The further North you go the more deprived things seem, and I'm sure you can almost track an increase in benefit scroungers, drug addicts and single mothers

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

Hopefully Pete can come along and either prove or disprove that sweeping statement.

fatherpierre

London probably has more of the above than the rest of the UK combined.

Dieseldog

Will you be running a "How to Drive Inside the M25 Brimming with Anger and Hatred of Mankind" course, Pete?

PeteBrant

The only place that spends more per person in tax than London is Scotland


Course the intial post was very tongue in cheek. I am, of course, a Cockney, some poeple may well shorten that term...

But to be fair I have a lot of friends that live in the North, and when you go up there it is like a different country. The people are much much more friendly (Unless of course you are a travelling football fan )

Course the South has it benefits, like it doesn't rain every other day, and you don't speak in a ridiculous accent. But like FatherPierre said, if you could combine the best bits form both worlds it would be aces.

PeteBrant

possibly.


I think one of the first courses I may have to do for migrating Northeners is a "Coping without Warburtons bread" intensive training programme

my00scooby

iTrader: (1)

The tories attitude to the North is not surprising, it was their favourite leader, thatcher, that is the reason why the north is the way it is now!

Lisawrx

iTrader: (1)

That's wishful thinking at the moment. I can't remember the last time I saw the sun.

Saves me watering the plants though.

SJ_Skyline

The Romans should have built Hadrian's wall just north of Watford to keep you Northern Monkeys out!

The Chief

Do they have other makes of bread down there?

I wondered what the GF gave me when i go down Brighton

The Zohan

I hail from darn sarf, Brighton to be precise.

I currently work in West Yorkshire, staying up during the week and weekends in Northampton (between London & Birmingham for those who do not know)]

IMHO and in general the north and northerners is more friendly and a better standard of living.

We plan to move that way soon and i must say am looking forward to it.

Live in London or south with huge congestion problems, rubbish transport and crime a plenty - no thanks, i love London and love to visit, just do not want to stay for long.

Money spenty on the Olympics for example would be much better spent on regenerating certain areas, not just London!

NotoriousREV

Should I leave my very well paid job and sell my £240,000 4 bedroomed, double garaged house overlooking the local parkland surrounded by woods and move to a 2 bedroomed flat in a congested, polluted, crime-ridden city?

Er, no thanks.

fatherpierre

I fancy retiring to Cornwall. Northern friendliness, nice and clean and (currently) not inundated with people that shouldn’t be there.

Just a case of getting used to living around people whose parents are also their siblings

PeteBrant

Cornwall folk always struck me as being a bit... "odd". You know, you ask for directions and they look at you sizing you up before taking a bit of straw out of thier mouth and direct you to the local abatoir, where you will be brutally butchered whilst the local town look through a window and laugh hysterically whilst masterbating.

The Chief

TelBoy

Somebody's been watching Hostel on slow motion...

Leslie

But what will you do if they come and live next door to you Pete?

Les

austinwrx

I love it in Yorkshire- that is after all, why its called Gods own country !!!!!

I have lived in the south: why would I want to live in crowded, overpriced chaos ????

credit crunch- what credit crunch !!!!!!!! I couldn't even rent my lovely big country house for how little my mortgage costs me !! and I'm not giving that up to live on an estate or in a flat !

Norman D. Landing

I live in the North West and work in I.T in West Yorkshire.

I fail to see how my skills will translate into running a market stall selling jellied eels (you dirty shandy drinking pearly queens).

"Moind me staaaaaw"

pfft

spireite

Move south , get stabbed