are you a northerner or a southerner?
2007-02-20 23:48:36 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Other - Family & Relationships
As you were born in south I think you will find you are
a softie southern bastard.
...by eck.
2007-02-20 23:52:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hmmm, yes, I think of myself as a Southerner still, even though I have now lived in the North more years than in the South.
I was born in Essex in 1953 and lived there full time until 1972 when I came to Leeds to study, though I was still living with my parents during the vacs so I suppose I was still "officially" living in the South then - postal votes and all that.
As soon as I graduated I moved in with my husband to be (now long my ex!) so I suppose you could say I have been living in the North since 1975.
So - 22 years in the South and 32 years in the North - but I still consider myself definitely a Southerner and can't imagine ever being anything else. My husband is Huddersfield born and bred so is definitely a Northerner and if we had had any children then they would also have been be Northerners, of course.
To sum up, I think most people probably define themselves by their roots if they didn't move away from them till after attaining adulthood (hope this isn't too gross a simplification!). I don't even go down South all that often and yet I still feel this - odd, isn't it?
And I still have the accent, though it's a little diluted now!
A good question and you have earned your star!
2007-02-21 00:00:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How do you sound? I think you are probably a Northener. We have a guy at work here who moved to the South at about 10 years old - but still sounds Northern, so will be classed as such.
2007-02-20 23:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by cuddles_gb 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born in the Midlands, then moved to Lancashire then to Somerset, over to Surreyonto the USA for a couple of years then finaly back to the Midlands but east this time not west, what does that make me, I will tell you what it makes me BRITISH mate thats what I can do most accents and easily understand and drop into them So can't help you
2007-02-21 00:05:11 · answer #4 · answered by decrepid1958 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well i was born in portsmouth and my family r all from kent and london. then i moved the isle of wight till i was ten then to county durham when my step dad had to change job. and i speack half southener and half northerner. but i would class my self as a southerner cos thats were i was born.
2007-02-20 23:59:56 · answer #5 · answered by shell 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are lucky if you moved north,you are still a southerner, but you may become a honarary northerner.
2007-02-21 01:42:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your a southerner i would say. but do you speak like us northerners and how long you lived up here most of life how early in your life there key questions like.
2007-02-21 00:22:12 · answer #7 · answered by geordie_boi_86 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was born in the south & if I had to move north I would most probably have slit my wrist or throat.
No sorry Both.
2007-02-21 01:25:20 · answer #8 · answered by ANDREW H 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Northener, I think where you spend most of your lfe says who you are. You'd end up talking that way too if you moved there before you were 12?? is it or 14?
2007-02-20 23:51:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
soft southern shandy drinker!!!!!!! never be a northerner...
2007-02-20 23:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by Forlorn Hope - returned 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋