Urban75's north - south divide: definitive statistics

[JimW]

North is a feeling.

Peeved and hard done by, mostly.

 

[weltweit]

If asking the way to the pub, you as a southern male are greeted by a large hairy northern man with "Hello Luver .." you are probably north of the Huddersfield divide!

 

[teuchter]

How are you defining suburbia?

We can do that in another thread. It will be educational for many.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

If asking the way to the pub, you as a southern male are greeted by a large hairy northern man with "Hello Luver .." you are probably north of the Huddersfield divide!

i thought 'lover' or 'my lover' was a plymouth / south west thing. i've been called 'love' by large hairy northern men.

for reasons which are a bit complicated, i ended up briefly living in leeds, and was a bit at being addressed as 'love' by some random bloke when i was working on a building site...

 

[Puddy_Tat]

North is a feeling. It knows of no lines on maps drawn and relied upon by silly people.

I don't think it fits county boundaries.

Counties like Staffordshire / Derbyshire / Nottinghamshire / Lincolnshire are officially 'midlands' but the northern bits of each feel more 'north'

 

[bellaozzydog]

The north starts level with the start of the M6

Northern born/southern dragged up

 

[bellaozzydog]

Option 3: I am neither North or South but East. Which is definitely real, it's on the compass and everything.

East doesn’t even have a proper motorway

 

[brogdale]

It's Watling Steet; the Nordic folk didn't really get South or West of it on the island of Great Britain:

 

[Rob Ray]

East doesn’t even have a proper motorway

How dare you, the A12 is one of the world's great passageways, apart from that bit through the middle of Yoxford.

 

[bellaozzydog]

That's not the killer point you think it is

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bq66r7KKJqK1Yj2g8?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

 

[bellaozzydog]

The North begins at the point bread rolls are no longer called bread rolls.
If you travel above the bread roll line, which is somewhere in the South Midlands, bread rolls will start to be called by strange names such as baps, barm cakes, batch, cobs and even tea cakes.

The start of the M6 science FACT

 

[hitmouse]

Perhaps this map presentation would have made a much better poll than this one by teuchter ?

Ohhh, does 17m mean 17 million here? I was looking at that going "I'm sure that bit covers more than 17 miles". Or metres, even.

 

[bellaozzydog]

How dare you, the A12 is one of the world's great passageways, apart from that bit through the middle of Yoxford.

I rest my case

 

[brogdale]

East doesn’t even have a proper motorway

M2 & M20 both head (basically) East to the East Kent coast and channel ports/tunnel.

 

[Elpenor]

We can do that in another thread. It will be educational for many.

I hope you are using the royal we? If not I want no part in it as I have a lack of empathy for ordinary people who value the suburbs

 

[bellaozzydog]

M2 & M20 both head (basically) East to the East Kent coast and channel ports/tunnel.

East Kent is south though innit

 

[Rob Ray]

I rest my case

Sorry I can't hear you over the thunder of lorries bringing your supper from the East down our majestic road network..

 

[brogdale]

East Kent is south though innit

South East

 

[bellaozzydog]

Sorry I can't hear you over the thunder of lorries bringing your supper from the East down our majestic road network..

Not much faster than it was in Roman times

 

[danny la rouge]

Is selling plain "cookies" (ie cream buns / cream cookies without the cream filling) as a regular bread item a thing elsewhere, or is that a unique bit of Orkney madness like the monstrosities that pass for rowies here and calling black bun "currant bun"?

That’s Orkney madness!

 

[Pickman's model]

https://maps.app.goo.gl/bq66r7KKJqK1Yj2g8?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

Wanted to give that a surprised face too, my post of the month

 

[Puddy_Tat]

I'm not sure that map of small bread products is complete - isn't it 'bread cake' in Leeds and surrounding area?

 

[Rob Ray]

Not much faster than it was in Roman times

I mean that's true of quite a lot of UK infrastructure tbf.

 

[Pickman's model]

I hope you are using the royal we? If not I want no part in it as I have a lack of empathy for ordinary people who value the suburbs

He's taking the royal wee

 

[danny la rouge]

How dare you, the A12 is one of the world's great passageways, apart from that bit through the middle of Yoxford.

Yes, the passageway of England.

 

[A380]

The north starts level with the start of the M6

Northern born/southern dragged up

That would make Birmingham North. Not sure the Yam Yams would be happy with that.

Of course they aren’t southerners…

 

[danny la rouge]

That would make Birmingham North. Not sure the Yam Yams would be happy with that.

Of course they aren’t southerners…

Looks South and ponders

 

[A380]

East doesn’t even have a proper motorway

That’s because the Highways Agency is almost as discriminatory as Urban.

Besides, the M11 starts well…

 

[Pickman's model]

That’s because the Highways Agency is almost as discriminatory as Urban.

Besides, the M11 starts well…

It didn't, as other urbs who were at Claremont road will recall

 

[A380]

M2 & M20 both head (basically) East to the East Kent coast and channel ports/tunnel.

Kent ain’t East you Kent.