19 lessons you learn as a southerner when you move up North

1. You've been paying far too much for booze all your life.

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It's a revelation when you move up North and realise you can get a pint for less than half of what you'd pay for it in London.  

2. Your accent is really, really boring.

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That doesn't mean you should copy your new northern mates' ones though, because you'll probably butcher it.  

3. If someone calls you "love", they're not being creepy, they're just being friendly.

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4. Equally, if someone calls you "duck", they don't think you literally have feathers.

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5. Yorkshire Puddings aren't just something you have with your Sunday roast, they can also be a starter or an actual pudding.

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There's never a bad moment for a whopping great Yorkshire.  

6. When people told you about it being like five degrees colder up there, they weren't lying.

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7. But you should never take a jacket on a night out.

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That pound you'd have spent on the cloakroom is an extra half a pint.  

8. Your regular English dictionary isn't good enough any more.

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You have to learn words like "mardy" and "canny" – it depends where you are, there's a ton of different slang which is exclusive to different areas of the North.  

9. There are far too many names for a bread roll, and people have very strong opinions about which is right.

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If in doubt, just stick with roll tbh.  

10. Rivalries exist on a whole other level to what you've previously known.

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When we tell you Yorkshire and Lancashire hate each other, we mean they really, really hate each other. And that's before you even get to the big northern football rivalries.  

11. Everyone thinks you're "soft" – they're probably right.

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As a good example, here's an Essex Weather Twitter account getting schooled about what "heavy snow" actually means.  

12. You will get called posh. It doesn't matter if you're not actually posh, you'll still get called posh.

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To a northerner, anyone from the South is a posh bastard.  

13. The north begins somewhere above Stoke-on-Trent and below Sheffield, not below Birmingham or, even worse, at the Watford Gap.

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DO NOT GET THIS WRONG.  

14. Everyone feels the need to tell you when they're not being funny.

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It's good to be clear.  

15. If someone offers you a "tab", they're not talking about acid.

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It's the word they use for a fag up in Newcastle.  

16. There's a whole world of amazing high street shops you've never experienced before.

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17. If someone you've never met before in your life starts chatting to you, they're not trying to murder you.

They're just being friendly – yep, that's a thing up North.  

18. The thing about everyone wearing a flat cap, owning a whippet and taking their ferrets for walks? Those are mostly stereotypes. Mostly.

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19. Everything is better with gravy.

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Literally everything in the world.