mine certainly does

That isn't superiority... that is just stupidity

Z.

Thank you for that. I thought I was on my own ..............that has always been my experience TBH. Obviously not everyone agrees but .......surely there's a better way of expressing it?

I met plenty of otherwise-intelligent people who actually believed everywhere else was "backward", compared to the south. They weren't trying to be funny or rude, they just honestly believed it

How sad ..

.. anyway.. what about those French..eh? eh?


Z.

It`s a different debate DD but I`m serious

Leeds is a fantastic City Hadn't been there for around 15 years until recently, I was very pleasantly surprised....loved it, knock spots of Manchester too IMO...even though I am quite close to manchester....

I know

Best people in the country come from the West Midlands

Am I being picky if I say I cannot bear listening to the way east enders speak! I find it incredibly lazy! Why,why,why do they say... wiv, barf,,sarf, larf etc! Yuck! Otherwise I am not really bothered where people are from!Generally speaking most regional accents add a richness to the English language!Mind you if you look back at some of the BW films even children spoke with a BBC accent which is quite bemusing!Hurrah for the anti-hero/kitchen sink dramas which gave us regional accents ,in the 60s I think!
Having lived darn sarf and oop north there maybe some differences in attitude! The south basically is far more cosmopolitan,therefore has a very rich diverse culture and very open to change! I also found that people in the south tended to be more wary of strangers and would avoid eye contact at all cost Best not to say hello to any stranger otherwise you risk being carted off in a straight jacket!However, oop north most people will start a conversation at the drop of a hat to all and sundry! But do not be fooled by the friendliness of northerners ,they do tend to be rather insular and generally stick more closely to immediate family so an outsider for all the friendliness that's offered on the surface stays on the surface.Northerns also tend to love committees , they love to have a meeting about a meeting that's about erecting a sign post! Nowt get's past the chairman of a northern committee! All in all both southerners and northerners have things to celebrate and things that need working on. There are snobs down south but just as many inverted snobs oop north!

My OH is from there

Oooh, my brother used to live in a village called Wheathampstead.... possibly the most stuck up place I have ever been to!

I don't think it was a case of "southern village hates anyone more northern" though.... the impression I got was that they pretty much looked down on everyone else throughout the country!

I've not been online today... I came into this thread early on yesterday, venting about the abuse my lot give me for being northern.

But having read some of this thread I now want to defend the south!

I am regionally-confused!  

lol!  Ah... my family call them cheese eating surrender monkeys!

I couldn't really understand Prescott's point about obesity being a class issue, due to deprivation, etc.  I was thinking 'Hello??  you're not exactly Twiggy, John, yet you're a privileged, educated person, so...'

Imagine how midlanders must feel.

But he has a HUGE chip on his shoulder about class!  HUGE chip!  Surprised he hasn't wolfed it down and honked it back up again!

Chips are his speciality

lol.. the fool!   chip sick is the worst!

Oooh I sounded awfy serious...I wiz but I wiznae if ye ken whit ah mean?

Eeee by eck Scotty, can ardly tell what the's sayin the air...

There was a place on that programme I'd never heard of before - Jaywick. It was weird.

JAYWICK was on there!   Oh how funny!

Its about 20 miles away from where I live.   Its THE place everyone refers to, when describing a shithole!

Its the wild west shanty town of Essex... cheapest place to live in the south east (prob cos most of the places are mobile homes)....  hubby thought the wild west description was exaggerated til he saw the photo's of the shanty town huts!  

I have no idea in what context they referred to Jaywick... though I can guess... but it was unfair to use Jaywick as a comparison or example of anything.   Jaywick is unique... 15th generation unique to be precise!

It was strange for me, Ditty, to see this place that I'd never heard of before, yet it was used as an example of a place that was really run-down. 

Just along from Jaywick is St Osyth, which is not as bad as Jaywick, but not exactly a buzzin place to live.... so we did giggle when we saw that Peter Andre was kicking off his UK tour there!

We know that we are the best of both north and south

It should be lovely living by the seaside, though.  How could it turn into an uncool place?

 Probably

Not sure how it ended up like it... but its just down from Clacton on Sea, which is ok.... property is cheaper there than Colchester which is 15 miles inland. -  its ok.

There is a local culture of looking down on Claccy! or at least claccy birds!    But then the Chelmsford lot say the same about Colchester birds!

Frinton on Sea is  close by... thats the posh bit.... within the Frinton gates!   Expensive houses.... though I wouldn't personally want to live there.   A lot of people retire there.

Walton on the Naze is the best one in my opinion, its lovely there.  Fab beach as well.

But in terms of grim coastal towns, we have Harwich as well, and thats pretty grim. 

Jaywick is just infamous....   I do actually know some very nice properties with the postal address of Jaywick, worth a fortune... but they are in the rural outskirts, so not strictly Jaywick.

Best of both, slap bang in the middle but i've always thought we're more close to the north than south here in the Midlands.

I always consider myself more north than south as well

, we act like northeners I think plus we do sound like them, we've been to that part of the country quite a bit so that could come into my opinion about it.

I never know where we fit in in truth Midlanders aren't considered at all to Northerners we're part of the south and to southeners we're part of the north !  Personally I like being a happy medium