This question is a bit more involved than it first seems. It all depends where you are and where you come from.
In the north, you could be a northerner in a place like Hume in Manchester which is quite an UNfriendly place, or you could be in Todmorden which in my experience is a friendly place. There are small villages in the north where newcomers, no matter where they come from, are most cirtainly made to feel unwelcome by the locals who have lived there for generations, but there are also villages where newcomers are welcomed with open arms.
It's probably the same in the south. Parts of London can be like a war zone, other parts can be nice and friendly.
But take a northerner and place them in the south or vice versa, and you're bound to get people treating you like typical steriotypes. I've seen Cocknys in Burnley getting a hard time over their accent because of the steriotypical "Eastenders, bit dodgy, flash harry, Del Boy" label.
Likewise I've seen perfectly polite southerners with a posh accent getting stick for the "Lords and Ladies, oity toity, upper crust" label.
Similarly, northerners in the south seem to get lumped together under the "poor, uneducated" label.
Both north a south claim to be the friendliest, I personally think it's a myth that one is friendlier than the other because wherever you go, there is always a mixture of friendly and unfriendly people.  |