Southerners

[Rob17896]

Kopites?

No, I live in Yorkshire not Norway. I am just not very sociable.

 

[Rob17896]

I should qualify for sympathy. Man U are my home and family team, but Everton chose me.

The last 20 years could have been very different for me

(Not that I'd want it any different)

Impressed!

 

[Rob17896]

Yeah, but it was 2016 before they realised that you're supposed to eat it not smoke it.
Your not wrong! Biggest mistake as a teenager in the seventies was a book called Herbal Highs. It suggested large quantities of nutmeg to get high. It forgot to mention it is highly toxic. Never been so ill in my life.

 

[gonetomorrow]

I used to clean tenement stairs years ago for a job. I did OK. One Christmas I went round the doors collecting the weekly fees. The usual mantra was "och have ye not any change of a tenner? Well ye can drap it in later then..."
One door I came to the guy gave me a twenty quid note. "I'll have to come back with your change, sorry" says I.
A soft London voice said "keep it and I hope you and your family have a lovely Christmas, mate."
Gawd bless yer guvnor!

 

[.....!]

Lived there for 13 years. Never spoke to a soul. Actually had to learn to speak again.

 

[Tree13]

I feel, that "southern" or "southerner" is too much of a broad term to use, in comparison to "northern" or "northerners", in England. You could go to anywhere in the North, and it would give off a very accurate feel of the entire North. A suburb in Liverpool, has more in common with a suburb from another Northern town like Sunderland, than a southern town like Luton, has in common with Oxford. Anywhere inside M25, Bucks, Herts, Berkshire, Surrey, Oxfordshire and parts of Kent, Essex, Hampshire, Sussex, Somerset can all be grouped in one group, and be separated from the rest of the South. This is the group, where it is pre-dominantly middle-class compared to the rest of the country, and are snobbish, basically the feeling people are posting on this thread.

Then, you have deprived places, especially on the coast, which give off a very working-class vibe like the North. You could go to a city like Southampton or Portsmouth, and very much feel you are still in the North, and the only difference is the accent.

The fact of the matter is, that the North lags behind the South, in most social indicators and this will only widen under the Tory government.

That is flat out the weirdest assessment of the South I have ever seen. Go on, admit it. You've been to London once and hated it (which is a perfectly reasonable reaction). But you couldn't find Witham, Letchworth, Bicester, Aldershot, Petersfield, Burgess Hill, Edenbridge or Maidstone on a map. The idea that those who live inside the M25 are the same as those who live outside it is, for instance, a misconception that is shattered quickly and easily by spending just a couple of days down here.

 

[Tigger]

Lived there for 13 years. Never spoke to a soul. Actually had to learn to speak again.

That explains your user name

 

[emir]

That is flat out the weirdest assessment of the South I have ever seen. Go on, admit it. You've been to London once and hated it (which is a perfectly reasonable reaction). But you couldn't find Witham, Letchworth, Bicester, Aldershot, Petersfield, Burgess Hill, Edenbridge or Maidstone on a map. The idea that those who live inside the M25 are the same as those who live outside it is, for instance, a misconception that is shattered quickly and easily by spending just a couple of days down here.

Nope, not at all. I go down to London on a regular basis and I absolutely love it. It isn't called the best city in Europe, for no reason.

I feel that you have misconstrued my point. My point is that, places inside the M25 along with parts of the home counties I listed, can be considered the "elite, wealthy, middle-class" parts of England. So for example, Letchworth is in Herts, Maidstone is in Kent, Aldershot is in Hampshire, and so on, which were the counties I listed.

I even believe, there is a term called "London commuter belt", which is used to describe all the places I'm talking about and it has many places outside the M25. With that being said, if you look at GDP per capita by each county/region, Greater London shits all over other places in England.

You could go to a poor deprived place like Southampton or Portsmouth, and it feels like you are still in the North. There's many places in the South, especially on the coast, that are just as bad as places in the North and they have the same features as the North, like high unemployment/low education. So the whole "southern" privilege applies to the London commuter belt areas mostly. There's much bigger disparity between Bath & Southampton, than Liverpool & another Northern city.

 

[Toast]

Nope, not at all. I go down to London on a regular basis and I absolutely love it. It isn't called the best city in Europe, for no reason.

I feel that you have misconstrued my point. My point is that, places inside the M25 along with parts of the home counties I listed, can be considered the "elite, wealthy, middle-class" parts of England. So for example, Letchworth is in Herts, Maidstone is in Kent, Aldershot is in Hampshire, and so on, which were the counties I listed.

I even believe, there is a term called "London commuter belt", which is used to describe all the places I'm talking about and it has many places outside the M25. With that being said, if you look at GDP per capita by each county/region, Greater London shits all over other places in England.

You could go to a poor deprived place like Southampton or Portsmouth, and it feels like you are still in the North. There's many places in the South, especially on the coast, that are just as bad as places in the North and they have the same features as the North, like high unemployment/low education. So the whole "southern" privilege applies to the London commuter belt areas mostly. There's much bigger disparity between Bath & Southampton, than Liverpool & another Northern city.

I've clearly just lived in rough areas all my life.