Well, i am an exiled Yorkshireman, living on the sunny South Coast of England where the weather is lovely and there is fresh sea air to breathe.  I am delighted to live here, but my fellow 'Eastbournians' seem to do nothing but moan about the place and be miserable!  The weather is warm, the place is pristine, crime is very low (an errant squirrel stealing acorns would make the front page of the Eastbourne Herald!), and there is always something going on.  They are a depressed bunch on the whole...

9 LEE:

...I have come to the conclusion that we Brits actually love to moan, and the more we have to moan about the happier we are!...

Lee

I'm satisfied with where I live, and why shouldn't I be? I chose to move here as it's a great location near England's second most important financial centre. Having moved from somewhere I was unhappy, I'm sorry if my civic pride and general sense of wellbeing has jarred with some contributers here. Also, and as you're a Man U supporter Lee, I think you'll find the grey skies and terrible weather are more often than not confined to the west of the Pennines (i.e. Manchester) rather than Bradford and its surrounding environs. You've been out of the North too long, and sound like every other southerner moaning about the wet, cold, grey North - the kind of downtrodden, cold, despairing place that no longer exists. I re-read The Road to Wigan Pier recently, and I always imagine the more stereotypical southern conceptions of the North to be not dissimilar to the North that Orwell described in the 30s. It's just not the case, and is not helped by other Yorkshiremen heaping maudlin stereotype after another about how grey, depressed and back breaking ordinary life is here!

j0hnbarker:

I'm satisfied with where I live, and why shouldn't I be? I chose to move here as it's a great location near England's second most important financial centre. Having moved from somewhere I was unhappy, I'm sorry if my civic pride and general sense of wellbeing has jarred with some contributers here. Also, and as you're a Man U supporter Lee, I think you'll find the grey skies and terrible weather are more often than not confined to the west of the Pennines (i.e. Manchester) rather than Bradford and its surrounding environs. You've been out of the North too long, and sound like every other southerner moaning about the wet, cold, grey North - the kind of downtrodden, cold, despairing place that no longer exists. I re-read The Road to Wigan Pier recently, and I always imagine the more stereotypical southern conceptions of the North to be not dissimilar to the North that Orwell described in the 30s. It's just not the case, and is not helped by other Yorkshiremen heaping maudlin stereotype after another about how grey, depressed and back breaking ordinary life is here!

Apologies if any Yorkshire/Northern detractors out there were being tounge in cheek - that didn't come across in your posts, though I accept that sometimes the subtle nuances that we intend are lost in forum posts.....

Southern Softie

Guilty as charged Puncher! :)