England..do southerners like or dislike northerners & vice-versa. and for what reasons?

Question

i am from the north, its the southern accent i dont like, having said that though, i married a cockney.

stephen....the people i know from down south all talk like mickey off the bill lol

Answer 1

For very old historical reasons, I believe. No sooner had we Anglo Saxons got reasonably settled down here (say in the ninth century), than we were invaded by the Danes who proceeded to take England from the north downwards, with fire and the sword.
Naturally we resented this, especially as they talked funny, and said things like 'Ee bah gum'. We never managed to get them to leave, though our king Alfred taught them to be civilised, by giving them a few bloody noses, and converting them to Christianity.
I suppose they're quite nice really, but we should have had more effective immigration controls. We do hope they won't start coming south of the Trent, and start taking our jobs and social services.

Answer 2

I like everyone. Apart from the scottish but thats a different story.

My parents come from the north so i like it up there, its a bit like having a time machine when you go up north, everything is just that little bit behind the south.

I dont think most people in the south have much of an accent, we all generally have a non-discript slight poshness but not really sort of accent, what is there to dislike about that?

Answer 3

I wasn't going to bother with this question, until I saw the reply from smiff 78. If Stoke on Trent is situated in the North, where are places 'North' of Stoke on Trent situated? :))
As for the question, I'm not from the South, but I have been able to 'get on' with most of the Southerners I have met. Though I must admit that a real cockney accent rather gets on my t**s.


(But not as much as 'brummie' or 'scouse')
Oh dear! What have I said. :-(

Answer 4

I am a southerner and I can honestly say that I don't have a problem with northerners. Though some southerners do get annoyed with northerners who think that they are softies and think that they all have loads of money and are unfriendly. I think there are loads of preconceptions on both sides but due to people being more mobile these days this is changing.

Answer 5

Southerners tend to hate the northeners (im a northerner by the way) because they think were all farmers or scotts so i dont know...but the northerners hate the southerners because we think that all they do is spend our well earned money on The olympics or the paper pushers in parliament we also hate them because they spend their time deciding what should happen up here when their all the way down south not even near us i mean we dont have our own parliament

Answer 6

I stay in Atlanta, GA. My father and his family individuals are from Illinois and that i'm very prepared on that area of the north, no longer something yet friendly human beings and constructive small cities. yet to be independent and make certain the North off of information, media, television, etc. i could say accents first spring to recommendations- they're SO sturdy! they're generally constructive and authentic human beings from what i've got seen. yet now one exception could be long island/Jersey section human beings. From television and each and all of the shows approximately L.I. and Jersey (no longer basically Jersey Shore, that one grew on me), those human beings look somewhat superficial, loud, obnoxious, egocentric, and rude. i know that sounds undesirable and that i've got faith undesirable for the human beings living interior the section who're disenchanted with each and all of the undesirable media. As for what human beings think of of Southerners...they think of we are all a set of fat rednecks, it fairly is the commonplace consensus. and that i in part can agree. I easily have left my commonplace section the place I grew up, in line with threat basically 2 hours away and that i'm taken aback by utilising those people who're stereotypical redneck racists. yet interior the south, human beings could understand there are super areas the place there'll be a county of in simple terms approximately one million,000,000 (my county)- and not one individual could have an accessory, won't use southern words (ya'll, ain't), or persist with any "southern traditions". i in my opinion have not got any acquaintances who've an accessory or act like hoochie mamas.

Answer 7

every time I have had to go up north - we have found the people there really, really friendly - we once had to sit outside someones house and wait for him to come home, his neighbour came out and offered to make us a cup of tea - never had that down South !

Answer 8

im a kentish lass who married a lancashire lad i have no prob with northeners apart from not keen on some accents