CANADIAN REACTS | North vs South divide in the UK
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- Опубліковано 20 січ 2020
- This week I wanted to try to explain the North vs South Divide in the UK (but primarily in England) As a Canadian living in the South East of England, I thought it might be an interesting topic to dive into! Wow! Who knew how complex it would be?? Are people already upset in the comments? I can only imagine.
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a UA-cam video every Tuesday and an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 6:30pm GMT on Twitch.
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#britishculture #northvssouth #lifeintheuk
Are you SOUTHERN or NORTHERN??
The best kind of Northern. Scottish.
Midlander! Best of both and acknowledged by no one outside the midlands.
Southern here. Close to you in fact but northern at heart my family is all up north!
Northern, but live in the Midlands
I'm a Brummie, which is the West Midlands. Also the home of heavy metal!
As a Northerner ,when we say " Bloody South" we actually don't mean the south we really mean just London.
Speak for yourself. When I say 'Bloody South' I mean everything South of Durham. And after the last election I'm worried about Durham.
@Mike Jones really jealous of the daily stabbings and ridiculous pollution tbf
I live in the commuter belt and London is the place you work. However what a shithole, but not as bad as Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds/Bradford (same place). Even so these crime ridden, poverty stuck dumps are smelly holes.
Tbf even the midlands hates london. And londoners hates the rest of us
Mike Jones. I'm an East Midlander and the reason we don't like londoners is because we work hard, pay our taxes and you spend it all.
We get nothing back. We never see a policeman or have our drains cleared or our potholes filled.
No, just give londoners everything whilst we pay for it and live in a rathole town that pays lousy wages and we cannot afford to move away from.
We do not have londoners opportunities. We have very few jobs and in my particular town, an massive influx of Polish workers.
I'm a northerner. Was living down south and went out to a restaurant with my southerner girlfriend. At the adjacent table was a southerner bloke with his northerner girlfriend. She and I chatted away like we'd known each other for ever while our partners sat quietly in embarrassment. So funny.
🤣🤣🤣🤣absolute class lmaooo
Us northerners actually talk to people, perfectly normal, the south are in their own little bubble.
@@Lee12238 Northerners are friendlier, but just to other northerners. They don't like people who are different. Take it from me, I went up there and spent some time around them, and some of them made efforts not to accept me as one of them. Some of them were so directly rude, they'll say some pretty rude things right to you and not care the slightest about it. And they're out for a good time, and they're very friendly, to each other. Not to me. Why? Because I'm not a northerner.
@@alvexok5523 it might not be because of where you’re from…
@@alvexok5523 yes
Lived in UK for 10 years and it looks like London is like a another country, also the South of England tends to be wealthier and most government funding goes mostly to London or the South where as England gets poorer when you travel North. I witnessed it myself, areas of Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Hull, Middlesborough etc were all poorer and almost felt like the government in the Westminister does not give a damn about the people up North.
Big Daddy They don't.
I know what you mean when you say 'poorer' but as a born and bred Bradford girl it's not a poor city - it actually used to be really wealthy and every city has more expensive and less expensive areas. But in comparison to London yeah its alot cheaper. 👍Youre right about most of the funding going towards London, nd that's a conversation that's been going on for a while recently.
Utter tripe. Cheshire has the most millionaires in the country. There are as many poor areas in the South as the North.
Just Getting By statistically you northerners are poorer
Big daddy what a load of twoddle 🤣
It gave me laugh when you called Birmingham a "Northern City" - from Aberdeen, Scotland
You'll have to write to The Standard and tell them they don't know where Birmingham is
@@AdventuresAndNaps I'm not sure you should just believe everything you read in the papers, especially the London Evening Standard when it's about anything outside of London!!!
I think they were trying to make a false point about people leaving nothern cities but could only get 2 actual examples so included Birmingham.
@John Saunders Which you obviously can't!!! I'm not in favour of calling it a north-south divide, or even that line that's drawn from around Bristol going northeastwards that separates what is classed as north and south. I think the further away you get from London and the South East the less investment there has been, apart from a few pockets, like Manchester and Bristol. I think Cornwall has had as little investment as say Cumbria, one is obviously in the north and the other the south of the country, but both are equally ignored.
Birmingham in the "North" AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm in the north.
I don't know if this will send because I've written it on an abacus which I then had to point at the sun because electricity doesn't exist up here.
I've gotta go now cos it's tea time (NOT dinner) and I have to catch a pigeon to eat, to go along with my bread and dripping, which you might have to Google.
Whatever that is.
ooh beef dripping sandwiches, my mouth is watering just thinking about them, I've heard of that google thingymabob, I think it's offof that theer tinterweb thing.
No, Southerners eat pigeons, and call it hunters chicken, Northerners breed and fly them as a hobby. You missed out Pease pudding, Greggs, Stotties, Tripe, potato bread
@@redf7209 Tripe and vinegar, It takes a refined palet. Don't go forgetting Brawn, pigs head boiled downed, minced and set in jelly (gelatine), I used to like brawn till i found out what is was, still love my black pudding though.
@@nevesdad1969 mmm. I was partial to jellied pigs trotters myself but I never hear of them now and i'm veggie too so its all in the past for me. In the lower north you also can be proud of eccles cakes and pontefract cakes!
That's it 🤮
I hate the term north south divide, I’ve always considered it a London rest of the uk divide.
Much love from the south west.
And you can't compare Southend to Harrogate.
As the last election showed, there is no real north / south divide.
There is now a city / provincial divide.
Most of the cities voted Labour in the north. Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield while the outlying provinces in former mining towns voted conservative.
The people of towns like Barnsley and Grimsby will have a lot more in common with the people from Southend and Reading than with their close neighbors in the northern cities.
It's not a north / south anymore.
It's a metropolitan / everyone else divide.
London is more northern than places like Surrey in a cultural sense
Having visited both Bristol and London [I'm from Manchester], they are completely different, Bristol folk were friendly and the city seems relaxed.
I read some years ago that 86% of UK tax spend by the government to the private sector is paid out within the M25 ring
I disagree. An awful lot of the south east can be considered part of London in all but name especially in Essex and Kent where there is a large London overspill.
I’m from the middle of the Midlands so I get called a Northerner when I’m down South and a Southerner when I’m up North. So basically I’m confused.
Fuck em
@@liamloxley1222 Nope. One side = Midlands. Other side = the bits above & below nobody cares about
You basically occupy "no man's land". 😂.
Yes I'm from the Midlands and I get that too. I'm not confused just annoyed. We're neither! But I see myself and other Midlanders as more northern than southern as I feel we have more in common with the north. An industrial based economy rather than one based on commerce, and I think we have more of the friendliness associated with northerners.
@@Nooziterp1 same as east Anglicans we don't see ourselves as northerners or southernerers
I’m a northerner, recently moved south (to Essex) and the culture is DEFINITELY different here.
Like when you’re walking in the country, people ignore you, dog walkers just frown at you. People drive super aggressively. It’s different for sure.
Poor lass, could never live like that myself
@@mcfcok1683 (I’m cornish) we aren’t southern my beauty, we’re our own people !! Proper Cornish we ere! As we are Celtic and the Cornish have a different language to England we have a good community my ansome your never alone!! Especially with a cream tea
@@alexilsley897 yeh mate you’re English.
@@alexilsley897 What is this? An excerpt from LOTR?
They all think they're 10 men or knew the Essex boys .
Can't stand that part of the world .I was in the army (years ago ) Joined in the early 90s we had mainly londoners and Liverpool, the fights were always London v London, the scousers were the most chilled out and very down to earth.
I'm a Southerner living in the North, moved progressively North in my life as the housing is cheaper and life is more than just your job.
Agreed
I love this comment, i'm from north and living by London (not comparing all the south) and i prefer being up north but the south has great things to offer but i have noticed its very job orientated
Dead right but stop telling people and giving them ideas
You say that but the working south keeps the food on the north’s table
Northerner totally agreeing. I was going to give you my reply, but I'll make a complete comment for everyone
I don't know how I'm even able to watch this being a northerner, we don't have the technology in these parts..
Just wait till you get the internet!
@@mrsiborg what's that? I repling by tele-message on a bulletin board using a dial up 300 baud modem, that's how everyone accesses youtube right? ;)
@@andrewnorris5415 As a northerner myself I can tell you that you so far behind the times, it's 360 baud now. Get with the times :p
I only got the internet because I stole it from a southerner. Isn’t that how anyone up north gets anything?
Ha ha! That's one of the perceptions people in the South have about people in the North. That they're backward technologically.
As someone living in Wales, we are so seldom thought about that when we were even acknowledged in this video my reaction was like Dobby's when he's given a sock.
😂 Wales is a beautiful country!!
The welsh are underated a great but oddly forgoten people
Fun fact: I used to live in England. I moved to the South like most do when they first visit England. & They made me think the North was so bleak & grim I was actually kind of nervous visiting my first time. I thought it was going to be crime ridden, rough, depressing...It was none of that. The South couldn't be more full of it. The North is absolutely beautiful and was easily my favourite part of England.
One thing I found is most Brits don't even travel around their own country. So many haven't even been up North. It's completely insane to me. So most form opinions on stereotypes but they couldn't be further from reality. North is better.
D'Arcy Sweeney I applaud you and wholeheartedly agree ❤️
I was surprised when I saw a dating show and the Southerners travelled up North to meet dates. There was four of them and two had never even been here before. Most of us Northerners have visited London and the South Coast for hols. Same is true in the US, most people have never even left their own state I heard. I have travelled the UK a fair bit and worked in diff parts. All the people are nice. Londoners have less time, longer commutes, seem to work longer, and can be more materialistic (they are good folk but you get sucked into it there). To make themselves feel better about this life they like to label the North as "grim". When in reality it is very beautiful and quite smart looking. They are generally better for intelligent convos in the South though, as there are more educated people there. Science, psychology etc. But there is some bias on "woke" subjects as they consider themselves more "progressive" but you can take that too far for sure.
John Saunders It’s not..
John Saunders No I’m saying ‘It’s not..’ to the fact that you said the North is grim...
D'Arcy Sweeney there is an element of true to that. Not so much the stereotyping, well not for me anyway. I’m from Somerset and out of all my mates the ones that go up north most often is because of Family, Football or business. Some of my mates haven’t been much past brum but they’ve spent 3months in SE Asia!
Can’t we all agree that you get “twats”everywhere..
Absolutely true. I guess the debate is whether there are proportionately more in London. 🤣🤣🤣
Lolol 😂😂😂
Can I just say your analogy of England, Scotland and Wales as brothers is hilarious
Yes. It's sisters surely
I often think of the Usa Canada and Austaralia as Britains grown up children.
@@goggler2 I think you could use allana's analogy here too. Canada is the elder more sensible child, America is the naughty/rebellious child and Oz is the quiet younger one
@@sphericalseeker4446 True
@@sphericalseeker4446 Yep, with Canada you nailed it, the US is defiantly the rebellious teenager, who's prone to temper tantrums and is the 'black sheep' of the family. OZ on the other hand is the youngest and is more laid back, carefree, but also has a witty sense of humour.
I am a full blooded northerner born and raised in the south, who lived in London for most of my life. I have since returned back to my ancestral city of Liverpool
I spent 30 years of my life as a diehard born and bred Yorkshirewoman, then found out that my surname is a derivative of 'Lancaster'.
Help me, I can no longer live.
@John Saunders Only boring people with no lives spend their precious time trolling innocuous youtube comments. You might wanna get out more.
@John Saunders you said it sir
@John Saunders You've been talking to the wrong northerners 😎
@John Saunders Lol well I agree with you on that score!! Boycott is also a right perve
You two get a room 😀
I'm from the midlands, Nottingham, I look down on Southerners and look up to Northerners.
That reminds me of The Two Ronnies and John Cleese.
hey don't forget us easterners lol
ufewl this guys got jokes!
Lol. Nottingham is more North of the Midlands though. You're more Northern and Northampton is more Southern. Yet you're both the Midlands (Marcia)
We're both East Midlands lol
You're all Southerners to us Scots
You're all Rab C Nesbit to us lol 😂🤣
"Northerners" as they claim they are, aren't really are they!!
I knew a Scotch person would say that!
I'm a midlander who has lived in both Scotland and Durham where I was a "southerner". But down south I'm a northerner! I'm just confused! lol
@@mauricecasey5556 Lol , they're Scots . Scotch is their Whisky 😁
Proud Northerner. In my opinion though the few working class Cockneys I've met over the years are as down to earth and warm as we are.
@Blackporsche roadster Cheers pal. How's Lockdown going for you?
Very true, we've all pretty much left london now though, no longer our city
@@alecneate76 aye am fae scotland and hear more cockneys here than actually when I'm down in london
Totally agree. I've been down to London many times and this comment is spot on. Good set of folks.
Spent 12 years in Leytonstone n Walthamstow, 2000-2012, replacing the Victorian water mains in the eastend, made life long friends there, some of the lads even wed cockney lasses, moved them northeast like, probably could name all the pubs, hahaha, knew all the barmaids, wink wink, hahaha, best regards from County Durham
I’m a Northerner, I eat coal.
You get coal to eat, that's posh.
I dream about eating coal
@@paddyw917 You dream about eating coal.. ?! Luxury.
Luxury!
What we wouldn't have given to be lucky enough to have coal for tea... we DREAMED of eating coal!
I'm from Manchester, personally I've always found Northerners to be far more laid back and friendly than those in the south. We also have proper food up here, I still can't believe they don't put gravy on their chips down south.
If you travelled south , the first chippy not serving chips and gravy would mark the actual north-south divide.
That's because we are not animals. ;-)
@Jorvs Try it, you'll never look back!
Dont I work all over and when they do have gravy it's usually watery bistro. Not the deep rich onion gravy of the north
@@garethwest3864 🤢 Nothing worse than watery gravy
Shout out for the midlands !
Hammer 001. I’m fine with that too!
West Midlands aka brunmie
I think if pushed, more midlanders would identify more closely with the North than the south, but I think most aren't really bothered. I don't know how far south this goes (I'm from Leicestershire). Personally I think there's a lot of BS talked about it. I have relatives in Essex who are more friendly and less arrogant than people I know in Leeds.
Funny when she lumped Birmingham in with the North I was thinking , that's the Midlands ! I'm down in Bristol btw.
@@shaunw9270 I've always wondered how places like Bristol, Plymouth, Swindon etc fit into the whole "North/South" thing. Obviously, geographically it's in the south, but wouldn't Bristolians identify more with the North than they would with, say, London?
So if the stereotype of “northern born, northern bread, strong in the arm, thick in the head!” And the south is the opposite, then wtf happened to Wiltshire 😂😂
Bred not bread.
The thing is, England has twice the population of Canada on a ‘tiny little island’ so your obviously going to get more drastic competition and divide.
Really lol guess you dont get it
The North/South divide probably goes all the way back to the Anglo-Saxon period when there were several different kingdoms: Wessex and Kent in the south, East Anglia, Mercia in the midlands, Northumbria and Strathclyde in the north. I think I left one out. These ancient kingdoms still pretty much match the main areas we think of today.
Nick Martin. Me too Nick!
To be honest, I think it goes back further than that to when the Romans put up Hadrian's Wall and created a literal north-south divide. Let's blame it on the Romans anyway 😊
@@penname5766 what have the romans ever done for us?
bradley holder Exactly! 😂
South Wales here. It's probably been said before, but Wales itself has its own North/South divide, and we generally despise each other, in a half joking, half not joking manner.
The north of Wales is a bit more Tory than the South. Except maybe Cardiff.
@@richardhussey3330 That's the areas where there are many retirees from England. And farmers. My area is Plaid.
North wales = best wales, especially Anglesey.
Yep true,totally agree there is a north/south divide here in Wales!!
@@richardhussey3330 maybe the Conwy valley area . Plaid Cymru an labour everywyelse
Being from the East Midlands if I go down south I'm a northerner, if I go up north I'm a southerner. Can't win either way!
I'm south west so anything north of Bristol is "up north" and anything east of sailsbury is snob land
Salisbury is snob city. Its small enough to be a large village but even its unemployed people have a snobby attitude.
I'm from (near) Exeter and I thought the same haha
Agreeeeeddddddd.
Chris Button haha I live 2 miles East of Salisbury and the mistrust/hostility I receive from people just a few miles away on the west side of Salisbury is palpable. Even my accent (Home Counties I guess) is noticeably different.
Thats weird east of london we think you in the west are all posh retirees and second homes
Everyone just conveniently forgets the South West exists
No they iNvent forgotten you, they just have no issues with the south west, they are culturally nice people. The South West was in the equation went the North was voting in the referendum. I've already written to my useless Labour mps suggesting that low to zero rate loans should be made available to owner operators to rebuild coastal fishing fleets.
No, we haven't. it's a nice place to go on holiday, and they make pasties. Er... that pretty much sums it up doesn't it?
mike boosh we have cider and rugby, yes that’s it, but it’s enough.
And the greatest party ever, Glastonbury
John Saunders dunno what Glastonbury your going to mate. I couldn’t care less what those cunce are up to.
I’m Northern born,
Northern bred,
Strong in the arm,
Thick in the head.
I've only heard that applied to Hampshire by somebody who came from there, also, it's not in the North "oo arrr".
baylessnow yeah I’m from Hampshire and I’ve heard it applied to here (with dropped ‘h’ of course).
@@baylessnow i was going to say it a more westcountry yokel saying oooooooooooooooo aaaaaarrrrrrrrrhhh
We (Middlesbrough) say that about Yorkshiremen.
Ian Webster isn’t MIDDLESBROUGH in Yorkshire ?
Northerner here! I’m from Lancashire. I think you’re very brave to take on such a hot topic. There have been wars fought over less. Love the channel and love hearing about your country of origin too, lol. Hope you’re still sane after reading all of these comments. xxx
Thank you so much!!
I love your videos. You add humour with intellect; it 's quite entertaining.
ive not done a video what you watching and can i have the url haha
Probably the best summary of the 3 nations that I've ever heard: 3 brothers with Wales sitting on the side watching the 2 others fighting each other. (Southerner)
Brave Canadian woman'---enough said...
Not a real "Foreigner" technically...hailing from within the British Commonwealth. Most Brits dont pay much heed to the divide except some snarky comments they're well accustomed to the notion.
In my experience, northern people love to rip into southern people but southern people aren't that bothered about ripping into northern people. That might be a reason why you got more replies from northerners.
Northern people always assume I'm rich. I used to work in a theatre and things were a bit overpriced, as they tend to be in theatres, and northerners would say things like "we can't afford that! We're not rich like you!". It's weird. I'm working class and live paycheck to paycheck.
-Southerner from the West Country
From my experience northerners tend to have more money cause things are a lot cheaper i don’t understand where this stereotype of us southerners being rich comes from
Northerners love taking the mickey out of Southerners but can't handle it and get all stroppy when we take the mickey back, bunch of hypocritical, uneducated, inbred slobs they are up there. XD
@@KnightoftheLord1 You're going to have to try harder to get us to bite xxx
@@hannahdyson7129 Not really I've had tons of angry comments from your lot. :)
Both. My family are southerners and I was born in the south, but then moved to the north where I grew up.
I don't have any bad feelings about either. Yorkshire has a great sense of community and warmth about it. But I was teased (not so far as to call it bullying) about my accent, and people often ask me where I'm from because they don't believe I am a northerner, despite living here most of my life.
My school teacher once admitted that he immediately assumed I was intelligent because of my voice, meanwhile, my parents have accused me of 'Dumbing down' my accent because I've adopted some Yorkshire dialect.
I feel like neither a Southerner nor a Northerner, my accent and mannerisms are some frankenstein combo. In the South I feel coarse, and in the North I feel uptight.
not the south just london south is just fine
The irony of Northerners saying the perception of Southerners being tight with money should be lost on nobody.
As a Southerner I remember going 'up north' for the first time for a work meeting. I got off the train at Preston and wandered into a newsagents. There was nobody there except the proprieter who looked at me and said 'Hello, alright?'. I nearly jumped out of my skin! People don't do that in London. It can cause heart-attacks or in some instances a summoning of the local constabulary in case a terrorist incident is about to ensue. I subsequently found this was not, as I had supposed, due to a mental defect of the chap in question, but people up there generally are 'nice' and more socially forthcoming. I spent over decade travelling to all parts of the north and was invariably rewarded with meeting the most friendly, welcoming people. I left London for Spain in 2003 and now on the rare occasions I go back, I feel a foreigner there myself as I think the city is gradually becoming more insular and suspicious of 'the other'.
Londoner born in Newcastle and hoping to remain for my best interest.
Alanna your portrayal of the different countries as brothers was very perceptive and spot on Well done!
My girlfriend is from the North. When someone mentions the South she goes into convulsions.
Bet she loves the Scottish though
@@davemcgarvie2746 She's quite fond of the American.
@@davemcgarvie2746 no one likes the scottish
Born and bred Northerner. I have no problem with southerners. I've always found them friendly.
SpikeBlighty I’m an Essex girl and you’ve made my day babe
SpikeBlighty
To be honest I don’t have a problem with northerners, but glance down this comment section and you’ll see that a huge amount of northerners dislike southerners, especially Londoners.
Not sure if they realise but no Londoners think about northerners enough to have an uneducated opinion on them as a group. They just take the many economic migrant northerners they meet every day in London as they come. They’re just like any other migrant to London. Mostly great, some dicks.
Just like in Game Of Thrones, the North/South divide is real, those southern fairies cant handle our weather.🤣🤣
oh lord i can't express how realistic it is now after using that got reference ( as an outsider)
Born a southerner, and spent my teenage years up in the north. Now living way down south in Australia. Enjoy watching a new arrivals view of the UK. Keep up the good work
Im from Yorkshire and proud of it, i deliver timber all over the UK, and personally i think its more a class thing than regional, because i deal with people from all over the UK we are all builders in one form or another and i can sit in any canteen any where in the UK and get on fine with everyone in it. But i can deliver to some posh estate and the owner comes out and starts ordering everyone about like slaves and it reallly make my blood boil.... its not North vs South, its rich vs poor. Also i dont think there are any truly british people left in London, its a cess pit. Nice vid btw :)
Some time ago, I read a psychology research paper about an experiment in which a group of people were given tokens, unequally distributed.
The researchers found that those with more tokens were less likely to give some to those with less.
Politics in a nutshell.
I like this comment. :) I hear and see loads of northerners in real life and online they say we are 'Southern fairies' thinking we are all rich snobs who look down at northerners it's not true, lol, I started getting back at them saying they are northern lowlifes and they don't like it lol they like having banter but only when they make fun of us, they don't like it the other way, but I agree with this guy @Fade2k he's telling the truth. :)
I’m a Northerner, a Yorkshire lass, but I’ve lived in Scotland for 25 years, so I’m all kinds of messed up 😂
@wendy kelly I'm an Irish person living in the South of England. I haven't a hope.
You are Scots now if you want to be.
@@paulwilson2651 I second this. :)
@@EricIrl I am a Yorkshire man living in Ireland for the last 26 years and I feel j just the same as I always have
Paul Wilson Scottish, not Scots.
I'm an American living in a suburb just outside Chicago called Berwyn. Most residents of our city have no idea the origin of its name. Hi, Wales!
Helo! Syt mae?! Ti’n iawn ?!
cariad oddi wrth cymru x 🏴
Hey :-)
I'm from North Wales 😉
@@kdp8133 I'm from South Wales :D where would you say the line is?
I'm a born bred Northerner from Yorkshire. When I go down to London I get werid looks from my accent and I feel less friendlier then to north because up north you would always say hello to everyone you pass by on Londener you mind you own business. Like the video by the way!! 👍👍👍
I am from Northern Ireland, and we're so obscure that nobody even says, "Northern Ireland is so obscure."
Where?
The highlight of my week has arrived once again
Perhaps a new slogan for the UK might be: "SMALL COUNTRY, BIG GRUDGES!"
Small country, big differences. I.e. not boring and all the same. And it's banter, not "grudges". If you don't get the difference, you don't get the Uk very deeply. No grudges are held, although it may seem like that from some comments.
Andrew - I couldn't agree more. My phrase "SMALL COUNTRY, BIG GRUDGES!" was just that - banter. In other words it was not meant to be taken seriously. If you compare that with the alternative phrase "SMALL COUNTRY, BIG BANTER" it loses the point. If it loses the point it's not amusing, hence my use of the word "grudge".
I really enjoy your videos. Just found your channel and am binge watching.🤗🇺🇸
When I moved from Liverpool the main thing I noticed is that the south can go for 3 weeks without rain in the summer we’d be lucky to have a dry spell of 3 hours by the Mersey😝
A Notherner living in the South, my parents come South to educate the Southerners (50+ years ago) and ended up getting corrupted ;¬)))
@Hammer 001 RN 46years+1 week ago
Hammer 001 Well as that’s in a couple of weeks I’d hurry up.
Mancunian living in London where my second son was born. Fortunately he met a girl up north and my three grandsons are Mancunian !!
"Wales was a mistake" - Alanna, 2020.
‘You’ve got a godamned dragon on your flag, how cool is that” best summing up of a country ever. I’m a northerner, not even Welsh. Thanks for your off beat perspectives to life they usually bring a smile.
I absolutely love this woman’s analogy of the British nations.
Brilliant, a very brave choice of subject but you managed to carry it off perfectly and I'm still laughing at the "family UK"😂😂
Transient starts civil war, details at 11. XD
The attitude that the North and South have to each other is perfectly expressed in the film Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
From the South, but have some Northern friends. From my experience, we're basically the same apart from the accent and them complaining how expensive everything is down here (which is justified to be fair). I struggle with the whole "short a" pronunciation though; with words like "bath" and "staff". Yes we know there is no "r" in it but there doesn't need to be, we just know how to say it properly! Haha, love Northerners, they're a fascinating people 😅
Im from the north of England and some years ago while in the British army I found other brits no problem to get on with as we live on the best Island in the world ! Out of all the countries in the world I’ve always found the
Aussies & Canucks tend to sing from the same hymn book as us 🤷🏼♂️ 🇬🇧
I’m northerner and I don’t hate the southerners, and have no negative feelings towards them at all.
I’m from the south and agree with you,, I must say I don’t like the rich twats down here.
charly jarrett
You class 5.5 million English people in London as “very few”?
@@nick260682 Relative to 9 million in the borough map area *only*, I would. Most of them also live in outer borough's (which are now fast becoming inner borough's). It is the trend that is of concern given the beliefs of those coming in contrast to those of a few decades ago that actually respected the institutions and cultural norms. That said, inner London British people have also forgotten what their own history is and the wonderful and unique legacy of liberty and standards they are often fighting consciously and unconsciously to abolish.
Richard Wills-Woodward
You don’t know London well do you. Vague racist platitudes confirm this.
I'm an American who's moving to England this year, and I just wanted to say thank you. Your videos just give me so much reassurance about what to expect after my move!
Thank you so much, that's really sweet!!
Where are you comming to?
Stay away from the feral London children
Come north! The accent isn't what Americans expect, but you'll get used to it.
@Rxx x 😀 in Russia some people also called Moscow as Moscowbad, like Baghdad or something like that. Islam is growing up
Well that's thousands of years of Welsh history brushed over. Thanks!
My mother was from the West Country and my father from Manchester, I was born and live in East Anglia so I am intermediate.
I'm a Scotsman living back home having spent a decade in England, split between London and Birmingham. You were very wise to avoid including us today- you really aren't ready for all that!
I think the mistake you may be making comparing England to Canada is that size has nothing to do with it. It is far more about inequality of wealth and resources. The south seem to see their north as needy scroungers while the northerners see the south as greedy and selfish. That's simplifying it a fair bit but explains why the divide is still as big a thing as ever.
Change "the South" to "Tories" and you've nailed it
Basically, London and the south east see hogging the resources as perfectly normal. This is born out by Crossrail being built and HS2 being started (and Crossrail2 being seriously considered), while Northerners travel in 1980s Leyland buses on cargo chassis (Pacers). When I lived in London politically correct liberal types saw this as unremarkable. If large institution like Parliament, the Treasury and Civil Service were redistributed throughout the country, Londoners would go into meltdown.
But you're making assumptions about what people in the south think. Why do you think southerners see northerners as "needy scroungers"? I'm from the south but I have friends who are northerners and I love them dearly. I certainly don't consider them scroungers.
Borderlands
Yeah but you kinda need to keep London going smoothly because it props up the rest of the country. The north would be stuffed without London.
London and the SE are the only areas that spend less tax money than they bring in. That surplus has to go and subsidise the rest of the country because every other region spends more taxes than they bring in.
If anything London is generous.
@@nick260682 That's self-asserting logic. Keep all the big stuff in London, government, financial services, civil service, and the countless subsidiaries they support from luxury car dealerships to restaurants, then whatever crumbs are left when the fat cats have gorged themselves can be scattered throughout the regions. Doesn't sound very generous to me.
Scarborough,North Yorkshire,Northern England. Love your content,thanks.
I have a friend move from the south (Ashford, Kent) when he was thirteen we are know 46, when he was 16 his parents moved back down south and he had to go with them, he then spent the next few years trying to get back north which he eventually did.
I also went to a local college for people with disabilities and health conditions and you would be surprised how many southerners tried to stay in my locale after finishing their courses.
For a spell in the middle ages, north was considered anywhere north of the River Trent.
Well done, great effort on a subject we all have opinions.
Thank you!
I'm from the Midlands! I'm neither!
midlands don’t exist
I think you are incredibly brave talking about this subject . Maybe next week you could discuss Brexit and say which side is wrong
I think we are a small island and should get along apart from the south haha
There is no discussion - the remain contingent are wrong, just look at the state of the EU now. Besides that they’ve shown they can’t tolerate anyone thinking differently to the way they do - as shown by their willingness to overturn the result, which is disgraceful
😂 😂 😂 Brilliant, Alanna. Love the brothers analogy.
Wow, you're taking on the big subjects. I didn't know you could be a actual journalist. Im impressed. I live in Florida U.S. where it's warm most of the time. I would love to show you and your partner around my city. I'd be happy to drive you around so no rent a car needed.
I'm a Northerner living in the South, even worse I'm half Yorkshire and half Welsh, even worse than that, the step sons other half is a Scouser! :-) :-). So while theres the Lancahire / Yorkshire divide (which is monumental) we have have to team up against the Southerners in the house.
I'm a Yorkshire rose that lived in the South for uni. I definitely noticed a difference (mostly in weather). Speaking to the friends I made down there, it felt like a different country at first. But I think you can still find plenty of friendly people in the South. Maybe when HS2 is built in 3020 we'll be able to bridge the gap.
@John Saunders It was in Winchester
I love your accent and your stories💖
I'd love to see you talk about the east/ west divide in Canada. As an Albertan I would love to hear an easterners perspective. Also, the anglophone vs. francophone divide would be a cool topic
we don't tslk about the east shushhh lol stay hidden your better off
As a Northerner who has lived for more than 35 years in the South - though we settled North of the river (Thames)!
I moved with my family from near Manchester because it was a jobs issue. Northerners are generally more friendly on first contact, their humour is deeper and more attractive (I think) and Southerners tend to misunderstand the North - thinking it is not so attractive - and that can be the case in some cases simply because of the industrial heritage of parts of the North. Southerners too tend to be amazed at how far away the North is.
Having said that I doubt we'd move back - not least because both our children have married Southerners.
Lol your grandkids will have "funny" accents.
Manchester is in the Midlands not the North
@@redf7209 Manchester is in Lancashire , which is Northern England .
@@shaunw9270 I know. I used to live in Manchester but its only a little more than half way up the country. Its 208 miles from the Berwick Border town and 208 miles from London
@@redf7209 I never realised that ! From Bristol ,I always think of the Midlands as Birmingham , Coventry , the black country, Shropshire (?). I work with a young guy from Burnley who's a proud Northerner. Should I tell him he's from the Midlands ?🙄
Having lived and worked all over this country I can say that there is no difference in people, there are nice and not so nice people everywhere, area doesn't have any bearing on the quality of the person.
I've worked all over the country and that's the opposite of what I found
Thiis is a valid point but you have no roots it seems
And neither side want to claim us Midlanders as their own haha. We are the unwanted, absent minded, happy to plod along child in the middle.
From a *totally* unbiased perspective- Northerners all the way. Jolly, warm, honest and playful. And that part of the country is truly beautiful.
Can you send me the coords ill move there
the uk as a whole for its size is extremely diverse from accents to words we use you can travel a few miles from one town to another and there accent is different and they use different words ect
I moved from the South to the North when I was 21 (I'm 54 now). I love the out doors and there is plenty of that up here. The South is much more populated if you like that sort of thing. In general I've found that the more money people have, the more they close themselves off from the general public. Up here in the North there is less money going around so most people are the general public. I have family and friends in South and North England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we all get along just fine. Differences is what makes life worth living.
Hi, Alanna, I really enjoyed that, especially your comparison of England, Scotland and Wales as brothers, I'm not sure it was entirely accurate but it was entertaining. I'm from just outside London so I'm a Londoner which could be a third group. I think the vast majority of people are kind and helpful wherever they come from and hopefully we can all ignore those who aren't. Looking forward to your next video soon.
A lot of people I know who I perhaps ignorantly would call cockney from their accent strongly deny this as they were brought up in the suburbs of London.
Southerner here. My football team from 11 has been Leeds United. As a teenager my first hitch-hike solo was up to Yorkshire and I was blown away. I loved the countryside and got on really well with the people up there who were open and friendly to me. Ever since then despite living all over the South of England including London, I've got on far better with strangers from the north (Midlands upwards) than the South. I agree with those two lists from the northerners - spot on! Once I'd not needed to work in the south and family ties not so numerous, we moved up north (just south of Grimsby) and have not regretted it at all. Love Lincolnshire, the people, towns and country.
I get the feeling that football and rugby culture also played a role in this, as that's when large groups of people from different towns and cities meet, plus the difference in scenery and infrastructure can influence what people think of its citizens
your thinking too much lad lol
So glad you asked "actual, live, breathing Brits"... as opposed to the, you know, one's that don't breathe...
Funny!
Yeah asking Londoners would have been a mistake. :p
or the ones that aren't live but do breathe
Arterial Spray
Asking northerners who are too busy having a heart attack about Londoners giving tips to waiting staff and not hating blacks would’ve been a tough ask
It will date back centuries when at one time the north was dominated by the Norse/Viking held lands and the south by Anglo Saxon settled lands. Different cultures that continue to this day in many ways.
Is being a Midlander allowed?
Great topic well handled and amusing.. I'm from Yorkshire and everyone knows it is Gods own country and we are naturally better than anyone else..we are Yorkshire first English second and British when we need to get a new passport
Glyn Evans
Yawn with the God’s own country Yorkie arrogance!
I’m from Lancashire, so we should hate each other, but my partner lives in Leeds and she is awesome. I also love the way that when we go for a pint, the locals, who have accepted me, shout ‘Hey, Wigan. Get us a pint!”
We’re all just here for a nanosecond. I’ve not got the time or the energy.
Hi Alana, though I was born in Surrey I've lived most of my life in Northern England. I think the North/South divide is caused by a perceived (often accurately) lack of economic investment outside of SE England over successive decades. Whilst this has much reduced this century, there still lingers in some areas resentment toward people from SE England. My own experience is that there are good & bad people in all parts of the country, that all areas of England have their plus points (as well as negative ones) and more people from London & the Home Counties should travel around Britain more (there is so much to see)!
Northerner, leeds, West Yorkshire. Love your channel 👍
Thanks so much!!
Omg same 😂
Me too haha well Wakefield/Leeds.
@@caitlinwindle6537 👍
@@olixz 👍
When you go on holiday will we get one episode called Adventure and Snaps?
I love your explanations and descriptions and I am a westerner i.e. Californian enjoy it a lot
I don't understand - most of your patreons are Northern, where everyone is unemployed. How can they afford it?
Thought I might deflect some of the hate from you.
yeah, that should do it... good luck
Yeah but you could buy a whole street in Blackburn for the price of one house down here. 🎣
It is mostly because government spending occurs mostly in the South and in particular London
@@shaunw9270 That is true and I know a few people who have made good money from buying those up to rent them out.
Yeah because the Southerners are so tight and mean with there money, they don't like to see anyone else but themselves get on. Good on the Northerners for supporting Adventure and Naps and putting their hand in their shallow pockets. This makes them more prosperous in the long run!
I'm from the North West. Liverpool....
The North / South divide in my opinion runs deep with the inner politics of England. Especially the positioning of the House of Commons, Downing Street, and Buckingham Palace... all being situated in the capital London.
Because of this... you have a class divide, where all the elites tend to live closest to there and where all the money is concentrated. So because of this, there tends to be a slow influx of money that gets diluted the more and more north you go...
We've had a conservative government for a decade now, and it really has shown around the once great city where I live... we used to have pubs and bars and restaurants flourishing nearby where I lived. But now they have all shut down one by one and areas near mine are becoming derelict by the day. The people you see are getting poorer and poorer, when once everyone had their own life and money to live off.
It's a sad state of affairs.
The rich down south often say things like "ohhh the great unwashed, they need to get off their backsides and make something of themselves" - when often the opportunities simply aren't there for people in the North like they are in the south. Especially as the saying goes.... 'Its not what you know - but WHO you know..' well this rings true in this situation.
People up North often have full 9-5s, sometimes even more.... sometimes even zero hour contracts and have to work hard labour to make ends meet, and then get called lazy and stuff because of benefit abusers.
While the rich tax dodge like crazy.
Double standards everywhere.....
But this is just my honest account.
I blame the Romans for creating London ( Londinium ) and making it the capital lol
"Oh the great unwashed"
Bro what century did you visit london in or did you just do a tour of a private sector of old people's homes
There used to be a saying in the Victorian era that went Northerners make the brass while Southerners spend it. The heartland of the Industrial Revolution was the North and Midlands but for some reason all the money seemed to flow south. This also applied to Scotland and Wales so people from the North began to be a little antagonistic to what they saw as money grabbing Southerners. An example of this is that Samson Fox (A Yorkshire man) donated most of the money for the building of the Royal College of Music in London but rarely gets a mention for his efforts.
Where in Kent do you live?
I nearly spat out my Oatly when you said Wales was the mistake 😂
I'm a British bred guy (Croydon, South London) living in Mississauga Ontario. I find your content very interesting. Long live the South.
I'm from the south west, Cornwall, my great friend Max is from Newcastle he's been here over 30 years and sometimes I can't understand what he says with his dialect ( he still drinks Newcastle brown ale ) my grandfather was Welsh, and the scousers are the funniest people I have met, it's knowing how to talk to people that matter not where their from.
As a Southerner love your comparisons to rivalry between brothers in a family.
Probably best not to mention Londoners judging each other on whether they live north or south of the river (Thames) let alone East or West London! :)