Quote Originally Posted by al'
Or the fact that southerners don't, as a rule, like and respect northerners.
Al,

You are guilty of adopting the same stereotypes as the Londoners use. Most Northerners, when referring to Southerners, are really talking about Southeasterners and Londoners in particular. They forget that the South consists of much more than just London and the Southeast. This is just as bad as Londoners thinking that Newcastle is exactly the same as Liverpool.

When I first moved to London from Devon, they all assumed that I came from some mucky old cattle farm, because thats all there was in Devon, wasn't there?

The Northerners weren't much better. When I was travelling on a train from Preston to Plymouth, my fellow passengers (Northerners, who were travelling as far as Bristol) thought that Plymouth was two or three miles past Bristol. When I told them that Plymouth was further from Bristol than Bristol was from London, and that Plymouth was further from London than Liverpool was, they refused to believe me.

Ignorance comes in all shapes and sizes I am afraid, and some of them are even Northerners.

Rob