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A lot of this is quite true, i've been up north many times and its depressing and boring.

http://money.uk.msn.com/mortgages/mo...mentid=7506833

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What a load of dogs danglies, you seem to be very ignorant if you think that we are depressing and boring, we have some of the best scenery in the country IMO, a lot of the comments in that link talk complete tosh, so many that I can't be arsed to list them.

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Indeed.

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can i have your exact gps coordinates so i can program the sothern softie seeking misile ;)

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The article merges the benifits of different places down South? So South is best because Cornwall has great weather and you can benifit from Londons cafe culture? Well argued that.

I like it where I live because I can see pick the beautiful scottish heather in the spring and they do a great curry in Birmingham.

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yes its crap in iceland!

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try farmfoods its much better

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Thats why dads go there

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Looks like the southern softies need a pick me up again. This happens every time they feel unloved :LOL:

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imho, the quality of life is better "oop north", just as it is in areas like the New Forest, Cornwall, Canterbury - just saying "North" and "South" is (again, imho) too generalised.

They should be comparing quality of life in between cities and country areas, not above and below an arbitrary line drawn across the country.

btw, lager tops is just another name for shandy.

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Hey you lot. Stop telling the soft southerners that it's great up North.

Having them believe in the myth that it always rains in Manchester, we all live in dank back to back terraces and go to work at the mill in clogs, keeps them out of our hair.

If they realised the true state of the UK above the Watford Gap then they might start invading us..:D

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I am sad to say that my move to Surrey from Oldham in the nineties
was the best move I ever made.

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oooo... lol

you don't need to take it to heart when i say that, its just my opinion.
I live in London, there is so much to do here and when i go up north, Liverpool, Newcastle, Birmingham, Hatfield etc... i feel so depressed and bored i just wanna get on a train back to London.

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Is that the one that refuses to go south of Watford because 'it's too hot, and anyway the beer tastes like horse p**s'?

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you seem to have an above average knowlege of this device:D

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are you still bored zee?:D

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one of the good things about up north is the house prices ,i can buy an entire housing estate here for the price of a london bedsit, and we have proper beer [we get it from germany]:D:D:D

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Anything between the Watford gap and Scotland is depressing.

I went Leicester the other day, it only has 4 semi-decent restaurants. Liverpool the European city of culture, :sick: was such a mess a couple of months ago, still looking for a decent meal over there. I could go on and on...

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Good luck on my estate - 2 bed flat is 160k, 4 bed detached 450k, 4 bed with larger garden (that's the green area at the front and back of your house) is £550k; you must have very expensive bedsits (pity no one can afford to live in them) ;)

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And in London, of course, the streets are paved with gold, and there are no less than salubrious areas ;)

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[QUOTE=foreverwar;34490306]Good luck on my estate - 2 bed flat is 160k, 4 bed detached 450k, 4 bed with larger garden (that's the green area at the front and back of your house) is £550k; you must have very expensive bedsits (pity no one can afford to live in them) ;)

i was thinking 2 up 2 down comunial loo and in walking distance of pitt[ with window box]

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Not keen in estates either....

I want to have lots of choices for lunch, even more choices for dinner, plenty of jazz clubs to go to etc etc. Central London has plethora of all of that!

I am impressed with your vocabulary, I had to look up "salubrious".

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If it was warmer up north this southerner would be joining her northern living relatives.

I'm at present on my 9th sunny day in a row.:)

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Well i havent counted but its at least the same in Manchester..

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:erm:I've said it before. Will you please refrain from letting them know the true conditions in the North. It's raining in Manchester, has been for weeks, the only let up from the continual rain is when it snows...6ft drifts I had to battle through last night on my way to the communal bath house.;)

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And we've just had an outbreak of Typhoid...

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Oh yeah - Ive been dodging the rain and bulletts all morning

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Actually I do know what the North is really like.I lived for 4 years in Co Durham just outside Darlington so I know how beautiful it is.I just had soooo much trouble with the vile cold winters.I also love Wales but those freezing winters and deep snows put me right off.Those of you who can survive them are very lucky people to live in some of the most wonderful places in Britain.

Trouble is I was born so much further south of where I am at present that I find winter in the UK the pits..Love the country,the people,the democracy but hate the weather.

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coggy, I hereby dub you as a honorary Northerner. :D You may pick up your ceremonial cloth cap next time you are in the area.

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I used to live in Staindrop - then Saltburn By The Sea :)

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Have you got a spare whippet as well? :D

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Two nice examples of places best hidden from the soft southerners. I remember going to the Saltburn Folk Festival and having a grand time. :D

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<my bad> the estate in the burbs consists of approx 40 buildings, a mix of detached houses and 4 buildings (which look like detached houses) each of which has 4x2 bed flats. We are 20 mins by bus/car from Leeds City Centre (including the main rail station), 15 minutes from Leeds Bradford Airport, and 5 minutes from the countryside (10 mins from Otley Chevin, which is beautiful for walking the dog). Within 1/2 a mile is a 12th Century Norman Church (where we worship) - it's grim up north, tha knows.

erm, Leeds City Centre has quite a few restaurants, too; Sugarvine lists nearly 200 in the city centre alone (these are all probably within a 15-20 minute walk from the railway station). ;)

But that's all about the material things - I just like the quality of life up here.

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I am originally from Essex a stones throw from lakeside and the QE2 bridge.
Living there was almost impossible due to the many senseless idiots that roamed the streets, shopped at lakeside or just those generally that continued to breathe.
Driving anywhere was a pain, doing anything was a pain so I headed north in 1998 (only got as far as Nottingham) and parked my butt there, the people are more friendly, the cost of living is cheaper and everything and everyone has a more relaxed attitude.
Ended up in Mansfield 2005 where I'm happy and I would never move back south, anywhere south. Long live the Midlands :tu:
Still learning the lingo though ;) and after 10 years I still got my lovable Essex accent :D

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Can tell you're an Essex boy from your sig... ;)

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Where are you from?
I bet you're a cockney arn't you??

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Don't venture up North much, I always have the impression of a a much more quieter place and nice scenery, I also think of the deserted community's that were destroyed during the 80's in places such as Liverpool and Manchester. Not sure how true to life that is

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The 80's made Manchester, not reall sure what your talking about.

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It's about as true to life as Ashes to Ashes is a valid representation of London life in the early 80's ;)

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He's talking about the great Jam Butty wars in Liverpool when in a final surge of tattifilariousness Doddy & The Diddy Men annihilated popular culture as we know it... :erm:

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I thought the North was best represented by section of Monty Python's "Meaning of Life" film called "The Miracle of Birth: Part 2: The Third World"
http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/mol/inlines/i-2_spm2.jpg

Or as they so succintly put it in one of their sketches
"FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: Aye, very passable, that, very passable bit of risotto.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: Nothing like a good glass of Château de Chasselas, eh, Josiah?
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: You're right there, Obadiah.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Who'd have thought thirty year ago we'd all be sittin' here drinking Château de Chasselas, eh?
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.
SECOND YORKSHIREMAN: A cup o' cold tea.
FOURTH YORKSHIREMAN: Without milk or sugar.
THIRD YORKSHIREMAN: Or tea. "

Must go - the whippet's escaped, and is in next door's black pudding patch.

Where's my bluddy flat cap? ;)

edit:
Thought you might like this picture from my work at a Northern Uni - we just upgraded the Server Room.

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The 1780s?

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I live in the North, was born in the North, and much of it, particularly the big cities, is a complete s***tehole.

Particularly Manchester, where I live. If I could get out of this utter Godforsaken, filthy crime ridden hole I would do so tomorrow.

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It depends what you mean by a better life.

Better life, to many people,seems to mean better shops,better restaurants etc. Whats so good about that?

The problem with many people today is that they have lost focus,are caught up in materialism and do not really appreciate what quality of life is.

To me quality of life is;

Good health

Some space in which to breathe and to appreciate the beauty of our planet

Good company i.e good conversation with like minded people and some kind of community spirit

Low crime rate

Clean environment




Now then, getting back to the debate, whilst there are many parts of the UK which have the above qualities in varying amounts, one often has to be rather wealthy to have it all and live in a really nice part of the UK.

For the majority of ordinary people in the UK,they are corralled in concrete jungles surrounded by commerce,crime filth and degradation.

In this respect, it matters not whether you are north, south ,east or west.

In the UK the minority prosper, in other parts of the world a greater proportion of the population has access to a better quality of life, and i dont mean Harvey Nicks.

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Can you get duck n chips in Mansfield?

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Is that not meant to be me? ;)

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i'm guessing you dont work for the manchester tourist board ;)

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Nah, probably the Liverpool tourist board :D

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North v. south, Man Utd v. Chelsea, Birmingham v. London ... everyone's entitled to their opinion and mine is that life's far too short to get all worked up about such things. Which is better is purely a subjective argument - I'm just glad that the UK is made up of different regions each of which adds something valuable to the mix we all call home.

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Definitely

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I moved from the Wirral to Surrey in '99, very much against my will... I wouldn't have a problem moving back up to be honest, I don't think things are much different between here and there anyways..

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Surrey? :confused:

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He might be fibbing about the IP address

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S\he is a Woking person. I was just curious about the sauerkraut ip address ....map

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Like poor Willy Wallace himself i was dragged,screaming & kicking down to London in 99........fae just a wee bit further North of course:)
Unlike my poor compatriot though ave no quite went to pieces just yet.

See,now theres the answer for anyone here who cant stop whining aboot the North,just head that wee bit further North in future;)

In all seriousness though,AS long as you & yours are happy & healthy then the rest is just a bonus,regardless of just where you are.