American Reacts to England's North Vs South!

England has a bit of a North South separation just like the US, but it's sorta flipped. Check out these North and South tendencies to be ready for an invasion!
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[@Sankey84Gaming]

Saying the accent is different north and south is different is an understatement you can cross a bridge and hear a completely different accents.

[@deblou7]

Accents are different all over the country, nothing to do with north or south

[@TheDidymusBrush]

So true. Accents change every few miles.

[@mattsmith5421]

This guy clearly hasn't left the posh part of London if he thinks the south talk like the BBC.

[@digidol52]

You're lucky if you hear any kind of English accent on the streets of London.

[@wessexdruid7598]

The spreading disease that is 'Estuary'.... You even find the young folk speaking it in Brizzel.

[@natacus1234]

That's what I was going to say. I don't know what he means by the south anyway. Cornish and kentish are very different

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@natacus1234 Cornish & Devonian are different..

[@natacus1234]

@@wessexdruid7598 are they? Well I never

[@AlwaysRightAllNight]

I am from Birmingham (i know, poor me) its neither northern nor southern, as its in the midlands To me, we would align more with the north than the south. But i feel like midlander should be an alternative option to northerner or southerner 😂

[@michaeltunnicliffe4935]

Agreed. I'm from Derby. I'm midlands first, but if we want to have just north and south, then I definitely feel more aligned to the north than the south

[@johnritter6864]

Lol, I get that. Bunnies are too common to be proper southerners. Just kidding.

[@kdog4587]

I'm from Leicester and yessss hahaa. We need some recognition but also, definitely identify with the North more.

[@froztbyte85]

Brummie here - came to say the same. I'd fight anyone who says that we're Northerners, we're Midlanders.. right up until the point a Southerner insults the North, then I'm a Northerner.

[@richmorris2870]

Agreed I'm from Worcester

[@kelvinlambert4249]

Check out The Mash Report, "Northerner terrorises Londoners by saying, 'Hello'."

[@tipthetube3219]

brilliant sketch

[@nicw5574]

It's a generalisation to say people in the South speak the BBC English. I'm in the South West, we have a West Country accent. The majority of us here don't speak like you'd hear on the BBC. When they talk about a North / South divide, they mention the North and London. The South is so much more than London. London is just a small part of the South. This video is annoying me 🙄, if you order chips in the South West from a fish and chip shop you don't get French fries, you get proper chips. If you want curry sauce, gravy or ketchup you can order it. We do have warmer weather though, and there is a lot of farms and cider here in the West country 😀 Wishing you well 😀

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

Being from London doesn’t make you this elitist part of this North/South divide. Come to South East London. I love it here but it certainly ain’t some posh paradise. & yeah we also like our chips not french fries!

[@hardywatkins7737]

There's a whole other south beyond London.

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

@@hardywatkins7737 & there is is a whole lot of everywhere everywhere

[@christopherwoolnough2160]

No such thing as bad weather. Just being badly dressed for climate!

[@duncanfairbairn2195]

My Dad always said, There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.!

[@andyjohnson4907]

When it's 42 degrees in London, that's bad weather. I can only get so naked.

[@ryl2515]

as a midlander, we are separate but if I had to pick one to align with it would always be the north

[@allanmanaged5285]

Why would you watch an American tourist trying to explain anything about England ?

[@digidol52]

Especially this one who has made a living out of getting it wrong.

[@Lars-n5q]

I’m from the North and nobody I know thinks that southerners are snobs or have farms. Most people I know think Southerners speak like Peggy Mitchell and eat jellied eels 😂

[@Mr9ig]

Your right us southerners do eat jellied ells, and don’t forget the rollmops! My cousins who live in Scunthorpe call me a southern softy, I call them northern monkeys lol. But at the end of the day we’re all English/British and we stick together like glue

[@Isleofskye]

You're havin' a giraffe, Squire. Peggy bleedin'Mitchell?? You come here gibin' it large, my son? You're takin' liberties, mate. Anyway, I am off to the Rub-A-Dub wiv me Trouble and Saucepans and after we'll have a Ruby... However, one has made the transition to the Outer London Suburbs, where one has learned Received Pronunciation and one no longer speaks with a Cockney accent but a Southern English one. I , simply, must be away as I am in the most fearful rush as I have "8" coming for Supper, ce soir. Toodlepip.... MILLWALLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[@oufc90]

The south is much more than London

[@garethm3242]

As an outsider (from N Ireland) who lived and worked in Sheffield for a year and who lived with a gf from a Kentish village, I can say that I did find spending time in Kent (mainly Faversham and Canterbury) there was a certain superiority complex there, albeit very subtle, in contrast to what I experienced in S Yorkshire. Like, when out and about in pubs etc, and discussing wider world issues and stuff. Maybe a "guardedness" in strangers there, that could be construed as aloofness I suppose.

[@Isleofskye]

@@garethm3242 Depends if you are a "Man Of Kent" or a "Kentish Man".....there are plenty of the latter:)

[@anwenpoole2115]

Just to confirm, we don't all love football..... 😂 But chips with curry sauce is definitely the best thing ever invented .... Or the chip butty! Omg making me hungry! Off for a cuppa and some chips ❤

[@Sestra_Prior]

North Wales here, and let me tell you, the North South divide in Wales is much greater than in England!

[@vikingsbeard]

South wales here, shut your mouth north wales mush lol Only joking

[@doctordunc]

I think that's because they're basically not connected. I can't think of many other countries where to get from one part to another most rational people would go through another country. I mean, do you ever visit South Wales without hopping around via England?

[@Sestra_Prior]

@@doctordunc nope...certainly not by driving. There is a direct train, but expensive.

[@veroniquewolff8963]

The weather in the UK is also an East/West divide where the West is generally wetter and warmer where the east is generally drier but colder.

[@alanclague2333]

Yup thank you gulf stream.

[@borlach_]

I'm from Birmingham in the Midlands, and have spent most of my life being called a southerner by northerners and a northerner by southerners. Either way it doesn't affect your day except when you go to London and yell HOW MUCH? at someone trying to charge you 8 quid for a coffee.

[@NewkemG]

Chips and French Fries are VERY different things . Never confuse the two . Nothing more disappointing than expected a plate of chips and getting French fries

[@martinsear5470]

Um think Mark needs to explore the south east and south west a bit more. Suffolk, Norfolk, Essex ,Kent, Devon and Cornwall are just a few examples of counties that do not have the RP 'BBC accent'.

[@rupertharrison4977]

Basically, Ignore everything he says when it comes to the Westcountry!

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

Just ignore everything he says

[@johnp8131]

Geographically, the North-South divide, is usually shown as a wiggly diagonal line running from around the Bristol Channel, ish, to either the Wash or the Humber Estuary, depending on who drew it? For clarification, there's a 'Map Men' video on this. Which you have already seen!

[@AxR558]

I live in Lincolnshire (either just north or just south of that line depending) and the answer is that there's definitely a fuzzy cross-over zone. Basically it just doesn't quite line up with anything in a neat way here. That said there's also a distinct Midlands divide between the more industrial west mids and more rural east mids

[@lindayoung4590]

I don't think you mean the Humber estuary - the Wash yes. I'm sure Doncaster wouldn't conside themselves Southerm 🙂

[@johnp8131]

@@lindayoung4590 I do mean that even if I don't agree myself, as if you read it I says, "depending on who drew it". Try looking at the various maps?

[@johnp8131]

@@AxR558 I agree about Lincolnshire, I was stationed just outside of Lincoln for a quite a few years. Lincoln to me is definitely more like the south. Grimsby or Scunthorpe? Totally the opposite.

[@AxR558]

@@johnp8131 There's a north south divide map by Danny Dorling that seems quite accurate for Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. I hope you enjoyed your time in our little corner of the world.

[@benjames9158]

2:25 every planets got a north

[@TheDidymusBrush]

I can assure you that a LOT of people in the UK hate football. Even in the North. I maybe know like, 5 people who go to matches and maybe half a dozen who watch on tv. Most of us dont give a shot about it, Walter!

[@klinikle5445]

Lancashire and Yorkshire hate each other till a Southerner turns up. Northerners and Southerners hate each other till a French person turns up. 😂

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Its a little bit like the frost report sketch with Cleese, barker and Corbett.

[@stephenbowen3492]

An oversimplification that ignores my home in West of England.

[@duncanfairbairn2195]

North and South, that's how wars start? That's why we have a buffer zone called the Midlands 😁👍😂

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Sweet tea with ice in it? Eww, don't be revolting. TEA is hot. Drop of milk, spoonful of sugar, heaven.

[@noggintube]

Drop the sugar - I used to have it with sugar and heard people saying 'you can't taste the tea'. I eventually dropped the sugar more for health, but then I did get what they meant. Once you get used to it without the sweetness, you can really get the flavours, and suddenly can enjoy the different types more.

[@elainesgarden]

@AndrewHalliwell I live in Tennessee and everywhere I look I am surrounded by iced tea drinkers . I’ve always hated it. Believe it or not we can get PG tips and chocolate digestives in some of the local grocery stores . I get it all the time. I love it 💕

[@skillspronto3401]

@@elainesgardeni hope you make it right😅

[@elainesgarden]

@@skillspronto3401 😂I’m hoping the same thing too because there isn’t anyone English around here to really show me how. I started buying it because I found this cute blue polka dotted electric kettle on Amazon that I loved to pieces.My coffee maker had torn up so I got it instead When the water boils I just pour it over the teabag and let it steep for 3 or 4 minutes and put some milk in it . Does that sound right? I really don’t know .😅😅. Nutella biscuits are good too’ I don’t know how to make a big pot using several tea bags at all! How do you do that? 😕

[@Cordie-is5dg]

WHAT ABOUT BIRMINGHAM??? Everyone forgets us because we are central. We are definitely not Southern...

[@jameshead9119]

WE TRY but it just but just when we have we turn a corner and there it is 🤒🤒🤒

[@Cordie-is5dg]

@@jameshead9119 OMG... Dripping chips, scratching, gravy, we are the gate keepers. I'm not travel Birmingham but... Lord of the Rings. Arms of jewellery, bombing by nazis because what we produced. More canals than Venice.... I'm knackard and need a rest. I also defy anyone to understand anyone from the Black Country. I can understand Scouse and a Yorkshire man more. I fluffed...!!

[@kelvinlambert4249]

Brummies are more like us Northerners as they know how to graft and look out for each other

[@johnritter6864]

Pseudo southerners, lol

[@jameshead9119]

@love-conquers-all only cause you get lost in spaghetti corner 🚦🚥🚧🤬

[@EdibleStars369]

Just going to totally ignore the Midlands then 😅 we must be invisible

[@noggintube]

When he said the museums are more expensive in the South, he's very mistaken - in London a lot of the museums are free, especially the main Natural History and Science museums. You can spend a day at each and no cost involved. Great for families on a budget 👍

[@lynnejamieson2063]

As a Scottish person who has lived in many different parts of England, I can with confidence say that many of the ‘facts’ put forward by Wolter’s World are just a little off. For the main part when people talk about the North South divide in England, it’s the North of England versus the South East of England, The Midlands and the South West aren’t necessarily part of the comparison. Nobody thinks all the farms are in the South though. I’d say that in general the only part of England that isn’t really thought to have farms is the Greater London area. As a Scot, I don’t think of any part of England as being ‘The North’, to me ‘The North’ is Scotland. The differences aren’t just North v South it’s also East v West especially when it comes to temperatures. On the West there is the Atlantic Gulf Stream, which makes everything feel a little warmer, which is reflected in Cornwall having a native palm tree and places like Largs on the West Coast of Scotland having palm trees growing on the seafront (it’s not really the Sean, it’s the River Clyde) and the same is the case in the likes of Torquay on the South Coast of Devon in the South West of England. But right along the East Coast of England (as you discovered in a very recent video) it’s the North Sea, which can be ridiculously cold. An example might be snow, where I grew up in West Central Scotland, when it snowed, the snow would lie thick and fluffy with a crunchy top. When I lived in Devon and Cornwall, snow in general was very rare but when it did snow it was a very thin dusting (unless you lived on Bodmin Moor or Dartmoor) that was mostly gone within a day but caused complete havoc whilst it was happening. When I’ve lived in the North East of England, when it snows it can lie very thick and dense but most of the time when it snows the temperatures still feel ridiculously low to such an extent that the snow freezes and when it is walked upon it turns into something more akin to ice, but in where I grew up in Scotland it would turn to slush and eventually disappear. In the North East those ice like mounds can genuinely make getting around on foot difficult. The trouble with the likes of Wolter’s World videos, is that they obtain a little bit of fact that they have only somewhat of an understanding of, run with it and expand it into generalisations that don’t actually exist within the UK. I mean, a large part of the continuation of the ‘North South Divide’ is that successive governments have ensured that the bulk of English wealth is kept within the South East (large swathes of the South West is treated like holiday villages by wealthy people in the South East and as a result many locals can’t afford to buy homes there and some small towns and villages are mostly made up of second or third homes). There has been little to no investment made in the North of England since their industries were destroyed during the Thatcher years and any improvements made by the last Labour governments have been destroyed by the ‘austerity measures’ of the conservative governments over the last fourteen years. It is a much more complex situation than the flippant short video made by Wolter’s World would have you believe and to be perfectly honest, if you are coming to England as a tourist, the North South divide will have little to no effect on anything regarding your trip, you’ll just see it as different towns and cities offering different local delicacies and the accents being different from place to place and as such was a video that shouldn’t have been made for a tourist channel because it kind of trivialises and disregards centuries of resources being taken from the North of England to further enrich those in the South.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Just to note- 'Everybody' does not love football. As far as weather goes, it is also wetter in the west than in the east, so it's not just a North/South thing. Being a Midlander, I think we generally have more in common with the North than the South. The BBC is a lot less RP-centric than it used to be- in fact the BBC itself is largely based in Media City Salford in Greater Manchester these days.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

Oh, you're mean... reminding evreyone about the BBC, Manchester has enough stigma to get over as it is. 😏

[@graemerigg4029]

Some people think football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, it's not it's more important than that - Brian Clough

[@skasteve6528]

The was Bill Shankly

[@cryogenixoldskool5803]

That's actually a Bill Shankly quote

[@johnderbyshire]

The video presenter is being very generalistic, yes the weather is usually colder and wetter ‘up north’ , the accents thicker and Northerners are generally more accessible but that isn’t really a ‘carved in stone’ difference. I was born in the North West of England, mid way between Liverpool and Manchester (around 18 miles from each) and there are many cultural and linguistic differences in that small area. The North/South Divide isn’t mainly cultural but financial as London the Capital is located in the South its perceived that there is a bias towards the South when it comes to Politics and Services with the South getting a larger piece of the cake.

[@katydaniels481]

I live in the Midlands, and it is far more northern than southern. Or am i just in limbo? 😂😂

[@JungleTunes94]

We've had this discussion a few times. Stratford, Warwick, Leamington, Kenilworth feel southern, probably because they are expensive and posh but north of that definitely feels north

[@WebToolkit]

We mostly just don't want Middlesbrough.

[@katydaniels481]

@@JungleTunes94 This is a great description 😀 I live in Leicester which is definitely not rich or posh! The places you mentioned are a fancy day trip out 😀

[@samkenyon4522]

I'm from the Midlands but spent almost 10 years living up north and now 18 years in the south, and can confirm the Midlands is definitely a lot more like the north than the south.

[@JungleTunes94]

@@katydaniels481 Warwickshires really long so the South is on the Oxfordshire/Gloucestershire border but the north comes out further north than Leicester and Wolverhampton. Im 7 miles east of Leamington and the rents £100 a month less so yeah. Its nice but too expensive around there to live

[@DS-uy6jw]

The gravy gets mixed in with the malt vinegar, which sounds weird but it's amazing.

[@Jamie_D]

Wow first, hey :) North is best,lol

[@tdg6372]

South is da best. Wickediwakidisha BO!

[@Rachel_M_]

Ad a midlander I'm probably the closest we have to a referee. . Sorry south, but North gets my vote. ❎ I must also commend them for their outstanding performance in the catering category 🏆 👏

[@Jamie_D]

@@Rachel_M_ yes i'm a Midlander, and although none of them want us the North wins just on beauty and cost of living.

[@Rachel_M_]

@@Jamie_D I can always be bribed with a hotpot in a quiet cafe with nice cup of strong but milky tea on the side 😋 I moved to North Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 5 years ago, I think I've found my ideal latitude ☺

[@threestepssideways1202]

It's not just North/South. The midlands whether that be East or West, is very much it's own thing. Not to be insulting but that thumbnail map is all too simplistic, and for most in this country it doesn't actually match up to what we would consider North and South. Some places in England are considered Northern (in attitude, culture, cost of living etc), even if they are further south than some places that are considered 'Southern', and vice versa. That is where the midlands comes in. The Midlands is a mix of both, and also has it's very own flavour, it's a large area, with many cities and large towns, there is plenty to see, plenty of accents if that's your thing, and huge amounts of history in regard to locations and the people. Without trying to sound too hyperbolic it's the literal heart land of the country and a centuries old melting pot from influences north and south, and dating back to the time of the Vikings where some of the more modern 'divisions' came into play. React to a video about the area known as the Danelaw in this countries history, I think you'd probably find it very interesting, and I think that your favourites Map Men have touched on it in a video in regards to the etymology of this countries place names. Just North vs South, is way too much of a basic take.

[@digidol52]

There's a North/South divide in Yorkshire alone. The UK is a complicated place for a relatively small island. South Yorkshire has some very deprived areas but once you get to the wealthy northern suburbs of Leeds and continue on to Harrogate, York, the Dales. Nidderdale etc. property prices go insane - comparatively. (Nothing like London however).

[@iguanaman08]

The North South divide comes from the Roman Road. The A5 Watling Street stretches diagonally across the country.

[@Stannington]

I'm from Sheffield which is classed as the North, even though it's about half way up the UK and right in the middle of the island

[@tomlynch8114]

Generally, if you order chips in the north, they don’t automatically come with gravy/curry etc. You’ll get chips although you may be asked if you want salt and vinegar on. If you want gravy/curry sauce you would order that as well. Weather. ‘Worse’ weather in the north is not necessarily true. In general it will be slightly warmer in the south. In terms of rain, that tends to be a West-East divide rather than North-South. For example, Newcastle, the main city in the North East of England is one of the driest cities in the country and sees significantly less rainfall than places like Plymouth and Bristol in the South West (however rain is still common in Newcastle!)

[@Darrenski]

Liverpool is being gentrified lately. For example a bbq rat has gone from 25p to 40p in only 2 years!!

[@petersmithm9]

Main thing for visitors to the UK. London is not the whole of England and England isn't the only country in The British Isles. Also as a Northerner the Midlands keeps the Southerners down there. Sorted.

[@hardywatkins7737]

Why do Northerners hate on Southerners so much?

[@djevo5662]

Accents in England change every 10-20 miles,especially in the north. You can tell what town people are from just by the accent.

[@RileyELFuk]

The big difference with London, is that most people there, aren't from London, the place is massive and heaving with people, and wherever you live is probably only going to be temporary. Buying is for the rich and most rentals are on annual contracts, so a settled sense of community is harder to foster.

[@bojanglespills84]

From my experience, Londoners are super friendly when you get to know them, but equally they could see someone being violently murdered on the street and not say anything for fear of having a social interaction.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

York's in the North East mate. I'd love to see more American tourists exploring the country outside London and the southern counties as the accent and even the local culture can vary wildly in what our cousins wouild consider a very small distance... when the entire Island is smaller than one of your states (Texas btw) you can be forgiven for thinking the whole place is like London.

[@jemmajames6719]

It’s in North Yorkshire.

[@The_Rising_Ape]

@@jemmajames6719 Is North Yorkshire not in the North East of England? Weird, I'm in Lancashire which is definitely in the North West and South Yorkshire is East of us. But, what do I know, I just live here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@meeshelle1397]

It’s in North Yorkshire, in the North East

[@SusanSp00n]

A big shout out to all the Cestrians watching. Much love to you all. JJ if you ever get the opportunity to visit our beautiful little city, you'll not be disappointed. Chester has so much to offer and has so much historical importance.

[@pipoo1]

With the weather it’s not just a north/south split in the UK it’s also an east/west split, the eastern UK is significantly drier than the west in terms of rainfall, right from Moray and Aberdeenshire in NE Scotland to East Anglia and SE England. This is due to the foehn effect which is especially significant in NE England and NE Scotland, as weather fronts tend to “dry out” as they cross the mountains.

[@RabidJohn]

The North/South divide in England is real culturally, economically and institutionally; e.g. the boundaries of the Archbishoprics of York and Canterbury are more or less the same as those of the historic Danelaw and Wessex. It was Angles vs Saxons, then Anglo-Norse vs Anglo-Saxons, then Anglo-Norse vs Normans. With that history, it's remarkable that we all get along pretty well now, and consider ourselves British first and foremost.

[@xanadodebz2866]

lol, love your cometary JJ😆

[@StormhavenGaming]

I'm a Southerner now living in the North and I can confirm that chips and gravy is the North's greatest contribution to the world.

[@NinjaFireProductions]

you could travel 20 mins to the next town in england and hear a completely different accent

[@connorparker6461]

I'm a Midlander, it's weird that they say north and south but everyone who lives in the centre of England identify differently. Midlanders/Mercians, we have our own accents and vocabulary.

[@rialobran]

I'm sorry, but the differences are misconstrued. There is a divide, but it's not a direct north/south divide. The west which includes Wales and the South West are poorer and much more akin to the north than they are to the south/south east. The west also say 'Graass' and 'Braass' 'Laaff' like the north. Dinner is at lunchtime and tea at dinner time. The west also gets just as much rain as the north and far more than the south/south east, due to the prevailing south westerly wind and higher ground in the west.

[@cmcculloch1]

The north - like he said a lot more industrial /working class, so going to the football at the end of a hard weeks work (graft) was something to look forward to/ a release and thats held over. Also the Dire Strait (well Mark Knopfler ) song 'Local Hero' is emblematic of the North East so much so that its the unofficial theme song of the North East , is played whenever Newcastle play at home... its pride in your local town

[@emmski9333]

Northerner here. I know I'm home when takeaways put chip spice on the chips.

[@vernonbear]

Northerner here, I’ve got some southern friends who are just as passionate about Arsenal, Chelsea, Portsmouth, Plymouth and Brighton as I am about my beloved Stockport County. I’d never dream of saying that they are less passionate about football. As with any rules you’d like to make up about any area you’ll immediately find that there are many exceptions. Generally gravy on chips is a northern thing, south is more curry sauce, red salt is a thing in Lancashire, I’m sure it’s available elsewhere though. Here’s a way to see how many accents there are, ask what folks call a barm, a bap, a batch, a muffin, y’know a bread roll. For every accent there’s a name for their chip butty! PS the north makes better mesic 😜

[@neilmcdonald9164]

The general "rule" with uk rain is the further north and west you go the more you get🎩

[@jabbra1837]

As a North westerner, I can confirm that we do get very top hat 👍🏻

[@jim-es8qk]

Historically it was Vikings v Anglo-Saxon. The Vikings settled in the north, while the Anglo-Saxons retained the south.

[@trevordance5181]

A lot of people in the south jokingly think anything beyond Watford is in the north, even though Watford has a station on the London Underground network. Talking about public transport the bus fares in London, which is firmly in the south of England, are generally cheaper than anywhere else in the country... north, south, east, or west.

[@balr0gus497]

It's actually Watford Gap in Northamptonshire that is seen as the N-S divide. Loads of people think it refers to Watford in Herts though, as did I until I went to Watford Gap service station on the M1.

[@benabel7326]

Trust me the Midlands doesn't want to be in the south or the north either.

[@neuralwarp]

SE: baath, caastle, butter NE: bäth, cässtle, boot•'aah US: beath, kessle, buddЯЯЯ.

[@Mike-lb1hx]

The thing I miss now living down south is chips, steak pudding and gravy. Luxury and the pudding is Hollands and its steak not steak and kidney

[@davidwatts-hw2dh]

It is all bollacks amongst the rural people. The so called 'north south divide' means nothing. Good Beer, spuds taste the same.😀

[@peterwooldridge7285]

He's correct regarding the Midland thing...

[@SallyLovejoy]

I'm from the East Midlands originally. (Nottinghamshire/Leicestershire/ Lincolnshire.) I definitely class myself as a Northerner!

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

For the most part it's just a rivalry, often with grudging respect. If ever I meet someone from England and I ask them where they were born, if they say something like "Liverpool" or "Newcastle", I say "I'm was born just outside London - sorry!" Watford Gap, near Northampton, is often thought of as the "boundary" between the north and the south, but as he said, the Midlands aren't really either north or south (it's in the name!) Thankfully there's no such divide here in New Zealand. We love everyone in the country - except Aucklanders ;)

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

There isn’t a southern accent. Just as here isn’t a northern one. Im from South London (not the posh west part)! We sound different to east, north & the posh west part. Southern accent? Kent? Hampshire? Bristol? Nah! Guess all you Americans sound the same.

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 I can’t speak for everyone but my family are from more southern parts and my dearest friends are northerners because I moved north and they are so lovely & sweet 😊 I am down to earth and not a snob and my friends are precious to me and like family 💕💞🙏🏼

[@85stace85]

I live in derbyshire, which is classed as the east midlands, but I see us as more northern than southern, being only 10 miles from south Yorkshire. My dad is from southeast London and loved all that pie mash and liqueur and jellied eels. 🤮 Give me chips and gravy or curry sauce any day! My dad loves living up here, says people are generally a lot friendlier than they are down there nowadays, and most of his family have moved out of london as it isn't what it once was. If your coming to visit, I'd highly recommend York and Liverpool. If you like nice walks I'd recommend the peak and lake districts, and if you come at Christmas I'd recommend you go to Chatsworth house and see inside the house, it's beautiful.

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 Oh yeah I noticed that about football I was wearing my favourite team kit, my coat was covering it and I got into train and didn’t notice it was the losing opposing team 6 mins in and I was roasting but did I remove my coat…….hell no, because I am 5ft 3” tiny lady & that train was filled with burley men very grumpy about losing against my team. I must have gotten into wrong section 😂🤣 It was just a large group of men traveling together and just coincidentally we got into same section 🇬🇧

[@PandaMartin-wq4yn]

Politically...the north tends to be more red for labour, social etc with the famous Red Wall of strong hold Labour majorities. The South tends to be Blue Conservative with more emphasis on Individual responsibility. Generally, the Northerners also tend to be stronger physically whereas Southerners tend to be more educated. But that is a very wide generalisation 😮😅🎉

[@KeeleyDe-M]

I’m from Bolton, just outside Manchester. Check out Peter Kay 😃

[@cst039]

Midlands is best.

[@InterYamah]

According to literally no one except people in the midlands....

[@ourmine2349]

😂​@@InterYamah

[@AnnaBellaChannel]

Don't forget The MIdlands in the UK are again different from the North and South regions of the UK.

[@juliaedwards7027]

Oh my goodness...I've had to listen to you multiple times at 14.37 and focus in on what you were reading, to figure out what you intended to say. What I hear is something very different! 😂😂😂

[@daverees9344]

I would say Birmingham is about the dividing line between North and South.

[@TIDYJOKER]

Chips, cheese, and gravy. It's amazing. Harder to get good gravy in the midlands. It's usually better up North (I'm a Midlander). I'm a Southerner to Northerners, and Northerner to people from London (They class everything North of London as North)

[@peterbrazier7107]

Most People like Football, some of us don't dislike it but we won't miss it. Anybody from North of Watford is a Foreigner.

[@skillspronto3401]

Im from pompey, we are described to be a northern city dropped into the south. We are a city in the “basin” of Hampshire (one of the richest and most expensive counties in the UK) in Portsmouth its a city based on the industry of war, the only city in england on an island of its own. And a fiercely proud city, street signs,lamp posts, shops, ironworks and pretty much everything has the city crest on. The football issue is mainly to do with london. Where there are loads of clubs, we are a one team city like plymouth S**thampton brighton Bournemouth (recently). You cannot compare the south to the cesspit of London because for one theres tonnes of tourists two its so expensive. Everyones northern to me 😉 we are smackbang in the middle of the southeast and southwest on the southcoast

[@johnnyrandom100]

Which Northern accent is he talking about there are loads of them.

[@61shirley]

I’m from the midlands but I’m classed as a northerner, and I like it.

[@ryanodriscoll]

Northerners are more inclined to know you, southerners are not. But both are usually inclined to be helpful.

[@martinshepherd626]

Bullshit......football is life for any supporter North or South

[@jim-bob-outdoors]

He is wrong on the prices. People are quick to think the south is London. The coastal towns are the same price as the north.

[@malcolmhouston7932]

The North pronounce the Vowel Sounds correctly where many in the South do not. In the US, this is also apparent. "GOD" becomes "Gad" or " Gard". The D's and T's are also a disaster. In " The sound of Music "film for example The young man sings " To Write on" (I believe he is Canadian). In repeating this the Female sings " To Ride on". The consonants as well as the vowels are consistently mis- pronounced. In the UK over the years , the late Queen started to speak differently - Parth became Path and Grarss became Grass

[@Sakurav0id]

Im from the east midlands and this is so real

[@richardwani2803]

Yep im from Derby Derbyshire in the Eastmidlands chip's and gravy bloody delicious or my second favourite is chips cheese +mayonnaise can't beat it

[@johncraven2614]

Im from Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the North, the South begins beyond York!

[@cliffbird5016]

There has been lots of civil wars in Britian.. also lots of cultral differnace between north and south. the south is mainly Germanic the north is more Norse (viking) During the Roman invasion some celts joined the Romans and fought against other celts. Then alter after the anglo saozns came to brityian to help defend it after the RTomans left and had their homelands overrun and got invited to stay they rose up against the elts and started a war that ended in a stalermmate so the German abglo saxons held the south while the celts held the north. then the vikings came and took over most of the north then the noramns arrived and beat the anglosaxons forcing them north. then after the nortmans were beaten the anglos went back south. Then there was the war of the roses. house of lancaster against the house of york both claimed the thrown. Some counties remained nutral and used both roses the red and white to show they were nutral while others took sides. Then the oliver cromwell used his army to overthrow the king causing another civil war.

[@shadypenguinuk9747]

I’m from the midlands, in Leicestershire, I consider us to be more northern, we say grass and glass not grarss and glarss

[@stephenhodgson3506]

The tradition demarcation line between the North and the South is a line drawn from The Dee Estuary (close to Cheater) to The Wash Estuary (close to Boston). One thing you will notice is that the weather is a little wetter to the West of the Pennines than to the East of the Pennines. Clouds coming in from the Atlantic have to rise over the Pennines and in doing so deposit moisture. This is the reason that Lancashire spun cotton, as cotton needs moisture in the air to stop it snapping. While Yorkshire s more to do with wool, as wool needs a dryer climate so the wool doesn't shrink.

[@LemonChick]

The south is not London and interestingly this is an error people in the North of the UK can make as well as visitors. It is a huge area with different accents, customs and prices.

[@PiousMoltar]

London is not the south, London is barely even England.

[@kimbirch1202]

Southerners who have never left London think that us Northerners all wear flat caps , race pigeons, and keep ferrets as pets, when we're not digging coal.

[@adamaalto-mccarthy6984]

We don’t

[@LemonChick]

Realise "the south" is not London.

[@PiousMoltar]

Northerners think southerners are from London. No, Londoners are from London.

[@andyculf8887]

The North South divide in England started way back to the time of the vikings, and Alfred the Great, the vikings controlled the North of England

[@ellehan3003]

And different kingdoms even before that like mercia. That took up much of the north. It seems that those areas/tribes/kingdoms still have an impact on our identities. I'm a mercian 😂 long live king offa

[@hardywatkins7737]

To be fair the vikings controlled the south also ... for a while.

[@cenedra2143]

I would definitely recommend York, I visited there for the first time in April and I would go back tomorrow if I could. My daughter wants to live there ❤

[@andyjohnson4907]

The most surprising thing I found when leaving London, is that other towns and cities have absolutely shocking escalator etiquette.

[@briwire138]

Walter's comments would be more accurate if he replaced South with South East.

[@HorrorEpic86]

as far as we are concerned in devon, north is anywhere above bristol

[@valeriedavidson2785]

I am in Gloucestershire, North of Bristol and this is definitely the South.

[@hardywatkins7737]

Yeah, London is in the North.

[@shirleymather6881]

@@hardywatkins7737 Please no! We don't want it up here! I think the real dividing line in the UK is between London and everything outside it 😂

[@hardywatkins7737]

@@shirleymather6881 Heh! I knew that would annoy the northerners. You're right though, ... there's London and then there's everywhere else.

[@vikingsbeard]

Fries are what you get in mcdonald's, what he's got is chips, fries are really thin, chippy chips are fat and taste better than anything you get from mcdonald's, people from wales love gravy aswell, mostly curry sauce but i prefer gravy

[@Archivus23]

Cotswolds is in the south 🤣🤣 keep learning

[@lindayoung4590]

If you want to see the difference between north and south, go into a sandwich shop where they make them while you wait. The name for the round bread has about 50 different names depending on where you come from (cob, roll, bap, barmcake.............)

[@barneylaurance1865]

In America politics, mass produced culture, and finance seem to be centered in Washington, LA, and New York respectively - all in the north. In England those industries are all centred in London in the south.

[@barneylaurance1865]

OK geographically LA is in the south, but since it's in the west it's not part of the "Southern United States" political region.

[@barneylaurance1865]

And looking some more Washington DC seems to be on the border of the south (if Virgina counts as the south), so maybe my theory is entirely wrong.

[@geoffpoole483]

@@barneylaurance1865 Virginia does count as the South.