Bit inbred I've heard! Apparently, they make Castleford residents look cosmopolitan in the breeding stakes.

Me too.

Doubt most of them could become warm if you set fire to them.

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Depends how far south west you go. Cornwall don't count, that's an entirely other place. We're pretty friendly down here in Winky but most of us are "blow-ins". In the pub one night, out of around 30 regulars in there, only two were born in Somerset, and none at all in Wincanton

Easy tiger, as a born & bred Londoner living in Cornwall I feel rather alone on this thread

now while it may be true that Cornwall has more than it's fair share of goat bothering eyebrow knitting moon faced inhabitants, we lead the way in yiffing down these here parts....................and you bothersome northerners will still come trawing down in your 1000's on your Sun holidays so that you can look at a different set of rugged rocks from those you have at home.

1. Kick out all the Northern monkeys from London and the South.
2. Move Hadrian's wall a lot further south.
3. Make new Hadrian's wall higher.
4. Londoners won't have to hear how good it is up north again from people no longer living there.
5. Londoners won't have to hear "ye got anee change please meet (or however they talk)"

and yet the whole of the uk comes down here , takes OUR water for free and we pay heavily for that privledge(sp).............get off our land ooooaaaaaaaaaaaaarr!!!

I can't ever imagine you taking advice from an evil Tory minister. Surely not your sole motivation for moving? Perhaps you are now partaking in David Cameron's Big Society?

I'm not surprised the southerners don't want northerners given their bigoted views towards their fellow countrymen here.

What is society like in the north, I presume there is low crime, low unemployment, people respect their elders, anti social behaviour got eliminated by the last northern Prime Minister Tony Blair?

Thats pretty much it, we also doff our caps to the local policemen who patrol the streets with hands clasped behind their backs cuffing any urchin who looks at them a bit funny, coalmen whistle jaunty tunes and we get our bread delivered by a boy on a bike who calls us "Sir" or "Madam", sometimes randomly but we are teaching him to tell the difference by means of a kick up the jacksie when he gets it wrong.

And the Corona pop man still calls.

Now you understand the origins of Minty's world view.

This sounds great, I understand you are a Leeds man? As a posh southerner I would like to move up to the north and sample this superior lifestyle, but I have some concerns of how I would be accepted. However like every southerner I support Man United so perhaps if I were to move up to Leeds if I wore my Man United top and walked into a local pub shouting "tally ho fellas, go the Red Devils! Champions and what not!" then will the locals greet me with open arms, and say "eyy oop, here's a fine young lad wantin' move t'north an find some mates, ere lad come t'bar, ave a pint on me and come sit wi'us"

Oh absolutely, you will be welcomed like a long lost brother, there is nothing quite like northern hospitality and there is nothing quite like football sectarianism and northern hospitality, they go hand in glove.

In fact in Leeds you'll find many pubs flying the flag of Manchester United which will be absolutely full of the types of people that you wish to adopt as friends for its a little known fact that Manchester United is actually the closest located football team to our city.

You really are a massive tit.

you were lucky. we didnt have a carona pop man, we had to make do with the ben shaws wagon, the weekly coal delivery and the rag and bone man.. those were the days lol.... when i say "were" it might still go on in hudds

Bottle of dandelion and burdock and a bottle of creme soda every week.

Don't think so but crackers as Leeds Utd fans are, they would after greeting you probably phone for an ambulance.

Hold up a sec - enough of the south west bashing! My grandparents used to live in a village between Cheltenham and Gloucester, and 'twas a lovely place (not their council house, but the village).

I also have happy memories of Gloucester itself. It's not a dump at all compared with most northern cities I've been to.....

My father is from Cornwall and half of the that side of the family are from Plymouth.

All mad.

I have happy memories of skylarking among the bombed buildings in Hull but I doubt I'd find anything remotely fascinating about Lister Street or St James Square these days.

You've obviously not been back to Gloucester for some time. [url=http://www.google.co.uk/cse?cx=partner-pub-4122209986509841%3Adxbe66ibf1d&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=gloucester&sa=Search&siteurl=www.chavtowns.co.uk%2F&ref=www.chavtowns.co.uk%2F2004%2F08%2Fgloucester%2F#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=gloucester&gsc.page=1Some less romantically-skewed views[/url

A very similar situation to me. I lived in London from 1981 to 1992 and a big majority of my colleagues in the software companies I worked for were not from London.

Mrs DaveO was met when working for one company and she is from Barnsley. We still have a great group of friends from that time who we go away with every new year and next year it will be 20 years of doing so. All met when working down there and they include two Scots, one Welsh with only one from London and another "southerner" from Leicester. The rest were all from north of Watford Gap.

Before buying my own place I shared flats/houses with a total of 9 other people only one of whom came from London.

Londoners were a rare species!

A great place to live for a while particularly when you are young and do not have kids. I get very nostalgic for those days whenever I visit but forget all the times I spent stuck on tube trains commuting or cursing the fact someone had inconveniently thrown themselves under a train etc.

The reason you don't meet many Londoners is because it's full of you northern leeches. SImple really.

Coming down telling us they're from God's country which is ironic as so many of the feckers choose to live in London.

Where do you live these days RB?

London is a cosmopolitan city, that's the point of London.

Northern leeches, keeping London on its feet.
How dare they?

I didn't realise keeping London on its feet meant being able to say the sentence

"has thee got any spur change meat"




I only got 2 chomps? Nice to see people from opposing political sides actually getting together. I like that. The world needs more of it.