1. Northerners are more friendly (from my experience on holidays)
2. Football is more popular and taken more seriously up north especially a town like liverpool.
3. Slightly better weather down south.
4. cheaper property up north.
Any others? I like where I live, local to Charlton, but can imagine it would be good growing up in a place like Newcastle.
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5. Trains that sound like buses.
6. Chips usually come with some kind of sauce, e.g. gravy or curry.
all the above
more open countryside
less crowded towns beaches
less pollution
less chavs
more golf courses
more race courses
better looking ladies
less money about in most places
better sense of humour (except scousers who get right on my tits)
7. People up North tend to support the club of the town they were born in or at least their local club and wouldn't dream of anything else. Down here most people i know are Man Utd or Liverpool. They have it right by my reckoning.
As someone who grew up in the West Midlands, which you lot would doubtless class as 'up north', I can confirm this is categorically untrue. A few Wolves, Baggies, Blues and Villa fans at my school but they were overwhelmingly out numbered by Man Utd fans, followed by Liverpool. Actually, thinking about I only knew one Blues fan - I knew as many Blackburn, Palace, Millwall, Spurs, Man City, Notts Forest, Newcastle and Everton as I did Blues fans and I only knew a couple of Baggies fans.
Scenary is better up north as is the traffic and driving experience in general. Cheaper beer and food too.
London is a fantastic city to visit, but I have to say I woudn't move back and while the surrounding counties can be beautiful you can get most of what they have to offer at a fraction of the price if you travel a couple of hours north or west.
Why? What grounds is this based on? Teams like West Ham, Tottenham, Arsenal, Portsmouth, Southampton, Millwall, Us! Etc etc. Are you telling me their fans aren't as passionate as the northern supported teams?
The north smells (i.e. Grimsby - fish, Middlesborough - god knows)
Northerners can drink more.
Cobblers. Other way around in my experience... :-)
Northerners are lazier than Southerners. I've established this as a fact whilst visiting the place where my bird is from,just outside Barnsley, where I witnessed the following:
The chippy closes at 6pm on a Saturday, even though there are tubby Northerners queueing out of the door at this time of day. In contrast, Sefa Kebab Shop on New Cross Road is open til around 4am on a Sunday morning.
The local pub closes at roughly 9 o'clock on a Sunday evening!
Northern cliffs have puffins.
Southern cliffs don't.
I have to disagree with your 1 and 3. And probably 2.
I you watch Come Dine With Me it is a nailed on fact that people from Norther towns are always nastier, meaner with scores and generally way more unpleasant to each other than contestants from Souther towns.
Southerns are not wealthier. They generally earn more but the costs of everything is more expensive so Northerners have way more disposable income than southerners.
As for better suport for football, London has more teams than any other city in the Uk, and way more than proportianl to its size so I don't agree with this.
You seem to be confusing people who shout louder about their realitive wealth and support of their team than looking at what actually happens.
In the south we have cod or haddock or plaice it you're lucky. Up north they have fish. And it tends to get smothered in mushy peas, gravy or curry sauce.
Down south we have london up north they dont.
Cheaper it maybe but Mogadishu is cheaper than London, hardly reason to move from the south.
Me and my northern mates at uni have this discussion all the time...
Southerners call swimming pools...swimming pools.
Northerners call swimming pools...swimming baths!