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05 Nov 2024, 8:06 am


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05 Nov 2024, 11:06 am

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I appreciate this video, very much.

It really does highlight and summarize the grave north/south divide in terms of the economy, which makes a lot of the north pretty much a wasteland to live in in terms of making a decent living from any kind of job that the average person would want or be suitable for.

Everything has been awful since the 1970's for much of the north.

London might as well be its own country, with disproportionate amounts of capital investment, state support and businesses being located there.

The north gets pissed on and it is even worse for autistic northerners, who have the typical autistic barriers to face, plus a terrible economic sphere in which even regular people struggle.



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05 Nov 2024, 11:34 am

Even the trains round here are only a step away from being a mop bucket on rails and I'm not even kidding


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05 Nov 2024, 12:03 pm

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Even the trains round here are only a step away from being a mop bucket on rails and I'm not even kidding


The ones in my area have been upgraded a bit in the last few years, at least on the interior. But they are still typically very slow.



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05 Nov 2024, 12:22 pm

People from the south would be horrified


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06 Nov 2024, 5:06 am

^I'm kind of ashamed that despite living in this country for 45 years, I know very little about anything outside the 'south'.

My entire life has been lived along the south coast and it's pretty good, really. But I've never even visited most of the northern counties. I've no idea what it's like up there.

I have no personal animosity towards northerners and have never felt any real animosity from the northerners I've met for being Southern. So i don't know how real all that stuff is.


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06 Nov 2024, 5:11 am

blitzkrieg wrote:
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London might as well be its own country, with disproportionate amounts of capital investment, state support and businesses being located there.

The north gets pissed on and it is even worse for autistic northerners, who have the typical autistic barriers to face, plus a terrible economic sphere in which even regular people struggle.


London is holding back the entire UK. Of the top 100 businesses in the UK, none of them are tech or at the forefront of innovation. Its just all banks and old companies.

Why they get such a huge chunk of UK investment for doing so little is beyond me. The UK stock market is also a joke, having a long track record of barely keeping up with inflation because companies here literally do nothing noteworthy to attract investor attention, not that banking and archaic companies have any room to expand anyway.



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11 Nov 2024, 3:51 pm

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^I'm kind of ashamed that despite living in this country for 45 years, I know very little about anything outside the 'south'.

My entire life has been lived along the south coast and it's pretty good, really. But I've never even visited most of the northern counties. I've no idea what it's like up there.

I have no personal animosity towards northerners and have never felt any real animosity from the northerners I've met for being Southern. So i don't know how real all that stuff is.


Honestly, I don't know much about the South! :lol: :oops:

Likewise, I've no problems with Southerners.

The video is a bit of a simplification, but I figured it would be a good starting point for this thread. I've lived in the North and in the Midlands. My area is...quite bad. Especially for unemployment, poverty, depression, loneliness and suicide.

I once awkwardly darted out of camera shot when a local politician was making a video about how terrible the area is and how (if elected) they would go about fixing it. Thankfully I wasn't in the final cut (I checked). Would be a bit awkward doing my local shop in the background. :lol:

I have seen a lot of Levelling Up projects and advertising for mental health support, so they’re clearly trying to improve things. I still want to leave though and move somewhere less dire.




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11 Nov 2024, 6:47 pm





This is a bit out of date to say the least, but maybe still interesting to watch.


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13 Nov 2024, 1:53 am

DuckHairback wrote:
^I'm kind of ashamed that despite living in this country for 45 years, I know very little about anything outside the 'south'.

My entire life has been lived along the south coast and it's pretty good, really. But I've never even visited most of the northern counties. I've no idea what it's like up there.

I have no personal animosity towards northerners and have never felt any real animosity from the northerners I've met for being Southern. So i don't know how real all that stuff is.


Oh you should make the trip sometime


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